OMNOVA Solutions Inc., Fairlawn, OH, announced income from continuing operations of $0.2 million, or breakeven per diluted share, for the first quarter ended February 28, 2013.
Boston-based Cabot Corp. completed an expansion project at its fumed silica facility in Barry, Wales, that increased production capacity by 25 percent.
Myriant Corp., a global renewable chemicals company located in the United States, and Bayegan Group, an international chemical production and trading company headquartered in Turkey, announced a broad collaboration agreement to commercialize Myriant's bio-succinic acid in markets across the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Huntsman Corp., The Woodlands, TX, announced a combined investment of $135 million at two of its world-scale methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) manufacturing facilities.
Xiao Yu Tong, Chairman of Shanghai FOPOL Chem-Tech Industry Co. Ltd., has announced the recent opening of a sales, marketing, distribution and M&A office in the United States.
Solar Impulse – an ultra-lightweight, solar-powered plane capable of flying day and night – is set to take flight across America with the help of diverse material innovations and technologies from Bayer MaterialScience.
RPM International Inc. reported strong sales for its fiscal 2013 third quarter ended February 28, 2013, but reported a $42 million loss for the quarter due primarily to two major charges in the company's industrial segment.