Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business unit of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Jason Butt K-FLEX^® Sales Manager for the North American market (United States and Canada).

Special-effect coatings by PPG Industries’ aerospace coatings group enabled Virgin Atlantic Airways to have the unique reflectivity and bright, vibrant color the airline’s design and engineering teams wanted for its new livery.

Argex Titanium Inc. (Argex) has hired Canadian engineering services firm GENIVAR Inc. to conduct a feasibility study on the economic viability of a titanium dioxide (TiO₂) first-module production facility.

Azelis,Antwerp, Belgium, has extended its existing European distribution agreements with Momentive to include the coatings sector in Russia.

Nanobiomatters North America LLC, a subsidiary of Nanobiomatters Industries S.L., Valencia, Spain, a supplier of engineered clay-based additives, has named three distributors to market and sell its BactiBlock^® silver-based antimicrobials in the United States.

Reverdia, a joint venture between DSM and Roquette, and Helm have signed an agreement for the European distribution and joint market development of Reverdia’s Biosuccinium™ sustainable succinic acid.

Autonomic Materials Inc. (AMI), specialist in the commercialization of microencapsulated self-healing additives for coatings, has raised $2.4 million in Series B financing.

An international search has been launched to find a buyer for some of the UK’s longest-established paint and coatings trademarks and brands.

Rice University researchers have settled a long-standing controversy over the mechanism by which silver nanoparticles, the most widely used nanomaterial in the world, kill bacteria.

AkzoNobel CEO Ton Büchner is expected to return to work by the end of the year, according to the company’s board.