The new PPG PITTSBURGH PAINTS^® brand announced its exclusive paint-brand partnership with Independent We Stand, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the revival of independent, locally owned and operated businesses.

INVISTA is bringing production of its TERRIN™ polyols to Europe via its facility in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

Scholle Chemical has announced the launch of a major rebranding effort and will now be known as Alchemix Corp.

For much the same reason LCD televisions offer eye-popping performance, a thermomagnetic processing method developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) can advance the performance of polymers.

Major German corporations are increasingly taking stakes in startups in order to profit from their creativity.

A consortium of companies in the European process industry comprising the areas of biotechnology, renewable resources, chemistry, process engineering, and equipment supply, as well as research organizations, recently launched project PRODIAS (PROcessing Diluted Aqueous Systems).

At the 2015 Coatings Tech Conference in Louisville, KY, the American Coatings Association (ACA) awarded the Roon Award to a team of researchers led by Dr. Wenjun Wu, Principle Scientist for Arkema Coating Resins.

Huron Capital Partners LLC has added specialty coatings industry veteran Robert Taylor to the Huron Resource Group.

Estron Chemical Inc., Calvert City, KY, announced that Anna Chizhikova has joined the company as Applications Manager - Powder Coating Raw Materials.

The specialty chemicals group ALTANA achieved significant growth in sales and earnings in fiscal 2014.