RPM International Inc. announced that unusually strong performance in its prior-year first quarter dampened comparative results for the fiscal 2015 first quarter that ended August 31, 2014, but that the company is maintaining its full-year earnings guidance for fiscal 2015, which was issued July 28, 2014.
BASF India Limited inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India. With a project cost of approximately €150 million, the site represents BASF’s single-largest investment in India.
In an Extraordinary General Meeting of Akzo Nobel N.V. held in Amsterdam, the company appointed new CFO Maëlys Castella as a member of the company’s Board of Management.
Cleveland-based Specialty Chemical Sales Inc. announced that Brandon Bingham has joined the company as the Technical Sales Representative in the St. Louis area.
Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC), a manufacturer of dust, fume and mist collection equipment, has appointed Alan O'Connell Executive Vice President in charge of worldwide operations.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is launching a national dialogue with stakeholders on ways to prevent work-related illness caused by exposure to hazardous substances.
A proposed new standard, ASTM WK 46877, Test Method for Pigment Loss on Ignition, will provide definitive instructions for conducting the common loss on ignition test.
The quest to create artificial “squid skin” — camouflaging metamaterials that can “see” colors and automatically blend into the background — is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough color-display technology unveiled by Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP).