The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available to the public hundreds of studies on chemicals that had been treated as confidential business information (CBI).
AkzoNobel has completed the acquisition of the coatings business of Korean SSCP. SSCP is a leading Korean specialty plastics coatings company and has a strong position in the Korean mobile phone market and also supplies coatings to the wider consumer electronics industry.
Honeywell announced that it has purchased Evonik Industries’ portfolio of manufacturing technology, including patents, for the production of polyethylene waxes used in a variety of applications, from paint and coatings to adhesives and inks.
Increasing interest in the various uses of electrical contacts is the leading impetus for the development of a proposed new standard, ASTM WK34423, Specification for Electrodeposited Coatings of Palladium-Cobalt Alloy for Engineering Use.
RPM International Inc. announced that its RPM Building Solutions Group (RPM BSG) has signed an agreement to acquire FEMA Farben + Putze GmbH (FEMA GmbH) of Ettlingen, Germany.
Royal Adhesives & Sealants (Royal), a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Arsenal), and Vertis Communications (Vertis) announced that Royal will acquire substantially all of the assets of Vertis' indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Webcraft Chemicals, which operates under the name Craig Adhesives & Coatings (Craig).