The Board of Directors of RPM International Inc. has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.21 per share, payable on July 29, 2011, to stockholders of record as of July 15, 2011.
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a division of Emerald Performance Materials, has completed the first of several planned phases of its technical expansion focused on its K-FLEX® non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents.
The Pigments division of Huntsman Corp. has won the 2011 EDF Low Carbon Award, one of 12 prestigious awards made annually by the Chemical Industry Association (CIA), for its pioneering work to measure and reduce energy consumption and the carbon footprint at its titanium dioxide (TiO2) manufacturing facility at Greatham in the northeast of England.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a regulatory procedure requiring companies to report new uses of chemicals known as glymes in consumer products.
Lonza Group Ltd., a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries, and Arch Chemicals Inc., a global biocides company, have signed an agreement in which Lonza will buy 100 percent of Arch Chemicals’ outstanding shares of common stock at a price of $47.20 per share in cash, an enterprise value of $1.4 billion.
Ecology Coatings Inc. has added and upgraded testing and application development equipment in its Akron, Ohio-based laboratory and has hired additional industry sales and product development personnel.