Effective immediately, BASF and Gustav Grolman GmbH & Co. KG, Neuss, Germany, will start an exclusive collaboration in the marketing of amine-based curing agents of the Baxxodur® brand in Europe.
A team of international scientists, including Dr. Stuart Prescott from The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia), has discovered there is something missing from 1991 Nobel Prize winner French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes’ theory on polymers.
AVIC Composite Corp. Ltd. has appointed Argosy International Inc. as the exclusive distributor for its complete line of aramid paper honeycomb core products worldwide.
Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., announced plans to invest approximately $89 million over the next three years to expand specialty chemical production at its manufacturing facility in Hopewell, VA.
RPM International Inc. reported record sales for its fiscal 2015 third quarter ended February 28, 2015, but incurred an as-reported loss for the quarter due to a one-time, non-cash net charge for a tax accrual related to the possible repatriation of overseas earnings to fund future obligations for the company's Specialty Products Holding Corp. (SPHC) settlement.
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. announced that an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement with certain affiliates of The Carlyle Group for the purchase of a total of 20 million of Axalta’s common shares for an aggregate purchase price of $560 million, or $28.00 per share.
A chemist at Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings is the recipient of the peer-nominated 2014 Innovation Excellence Neyman Award for global technical achievement.
Acknowledging over 30 years of achievements in the ink industry, the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers (NAPIM) bestowed a Printing Ink Pioneer Award to INX International Ink Co. executive Jim Bailen at its Centennial Convention in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.