Unimin Specialty Minerals has expanded Dowd and Guild Inc.’s territory to include Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Utah.

Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni, and Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc., a producer of specialty chemicals from natural oils, have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a partnership to jointly develop and scale a new metathesis technology to produce bio-chemicals from vegetable oils

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., celebrated the opening of a new 200,000-square-foot facility in Bridgewater, NJ.

Nubiola announced that it is increasing its production capacity of zinc ferrites, Nubifer K Series, by approximately 33 percent.

Pump Solutions Group (PSG^®), an operating company within Dover Corp. and a global leader in the manufacture of industrial pumps and related flow-control technologies, has launched its PSG TV website, which can be found at www.psgdover.com/psgtv.

Materials engineering and metallurgic researchers of the University of Tehran have succeeded in the creation of a dense nanostructured coating made of titania by combining sol-gel and electrophoresis methods.

Five Empa laboratories involved in the EU NanoHouse project, along with four other European research institutes and four industrial partners, have been researching the danger of nano-dust from façade paint.

Nubiola is celebrating its 100^th anniversary of providing color solutions to the plastics, coatings, construction and cosmetics markets, as well as to a wide range of other global industries.

W.R. Grace & Co., Columbia, MD, under its bankruptcy plan of reorganization, paid over $63 million to the U.S. government to resolve claims for environmental cleanups at approximately 39 sites in 21 states, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

PPG Industries reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Hi-Temp Coatings Technology Co. Inc., a privately owned supplier of high-temperature-resistant and insulative coatings, based in Boxborough, MA.