The specialty chemicals group ALTANA continued on its growth course in the 2013 business year. Sales increased by four percent to €1,765 million in year-to-year terms.
Researchers at University West in Sweden have started using nanoparticles in the heat-insulating surface layer that protects aircraft engines from heat.
In order to meet growing customer demand, Oxea is planning to increase its European capacity for Oxsoft GPO (dioctyl terephthalate - DOTP) by 50,000 metric tons by the fourth quarter of 2015.
Sartomer Americas has earned the Certified Biobased Product designation from the USDA for its entire Sarbio® line of 13 specialty acrylates and methacrylates.
Bayer MaterialScience announced its expansion plan for the production of hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) at the groundbreaking of its new 50,000-tons-per-year HDI production unit located at the Bayer Integrated Site Shanghai (BISS).
A. Duie Pyle, the Northeast’s provider of asset-based supply chain solutions and transportation, is helping customers combat arctic weather and heavy snowstorms with its protect-from-freeze program.
PPG Industries’ North American architectural coatings business has taken a minority equity position in The Coatings Alliance LLC (TCA), a cooperative of 42 paint dealers in the United States and Canada. TCA is based in Buffalo, NY.
LORD Corp., Cary, NC, announced Hannah Kirby, Senior Quality Engineer in aerospace production, was presented the Rising Star Award from the Pennsylvania Commission for Women at the inaugural Hannah Penn Leadership Awards program.