Protex International announced two acquisitions that strengthen the company’s position in the specialty additives and electronic chemistry industries.  

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).

Rheology is the science of the flow and deformation behavior of all kinds of materials, and a new knowledge and information platform “World of Rheology” by Anton Paar is exclusively focused on this topic.

Clariant has inaugurated new laboratory facilities in Shah Alam, Malaysia, for the oil services and pigments businesses.

In addition to its production capacity of about 10,000 tonnes per year out of the Cassano, Italy, Biosuccinium™ plant, Reverdia announced at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology (EFIB) that it is now licensing Biosuccinium.

AkzoNobel has launched the latest edition of its annual global study of color trends, providing added impetus for the company's recently launched Human Cities initiative, which has color as one of its main pillars.

Virent has appointed Edgar Steenwinkel to be the company’s Vice President of Research and Development.

CJB Industries Inc. announced the addition of Keith Stephenson to the company’s management team.