Shamrock Technologies, Inc., has consolidated and expanded its corporate offices, laboratories and manufacturing facilities in the historic Ironbound Section of Newark, N.J., located at Foot of Pacific Street.
The staff and facilities of a marine paint-testing center in Southeastern India affiliated with U.S.-based research and development company Poseidon Ocean Sciences, Inc., survived the deadly tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004.
United Mineral & Chemical Corporation (UMC) has appointed Specialty Chemical Sales, Cleveland, as its sales agent in Ohio, Michigan, Northwest Kentucky, West Virginia, Southern Indiana and parts of Western Pennsylvania.
RadTech EUROPE 2005, an exhibition and conference on UV/EB curing, is scheduled for Oct. 18-20, 2005, at the International Convention Centre in Barcelona, Spain.
Rohm and Haas Powder Coatings and Tikkurila, the Finland-based company responsible for Kemira's paints and coatings business, have announced that Tikkurila is the exclusive distributor for Rohm and Haas Powder Coatings in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Commonwealth of Independent States, including Russia.
Imports of phthalo green, a very popular ink in the packaging and printing business, have been halted because of trace levels of the banned chemical hexachlorobenzene (HCB), according to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association.
ALTANA Chemie AG, the Specialty Chemicals Division of ALTANA AG, is divesting its Austrian subsidiary, Rembrandtin Lack Ges.m.b.H., Vienna, to EK Mittelstandsfinanzierung AG, the private equity fund of Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG (HypoVereinsbank Group).
MD-Both Industries has announced the appointment of Superior Materials Inc., Garden City, N.Y., as its new sales agent in the Northeast region, representing MD-Both in the states of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Eastern Pennsylvania.
Akzo Nobel reported that Coatings delivered autonomous sales growth of 5% in 2004 thanks to strong contributions from fast-growing Asia-Pacific markets and a robust U.S. economy.