The expanded relationship with Eastman will provide customers in Mexico with access to versatile plasticizers used in a variety of applications to improve performance, sustainability, and functionality.
The investment in BioBTX is part of Covestro's venture capital program, in which the company invests in young start-ups and scale-ups with innovative products, solutions or business models, and thus promotes entrepreneurial activities in and alongside its core business.
Jay Brownrigg will succeed Charlie Malingowski as the final step of a multi-year phased transition of management and ownership from fourth to fifth generation.
Conference sessions on the latest advances in coil coatings, sustainability, 3D printing/additive manufacturing, hot melt adhesives, and metal packaging brought the industry together to advance UV+EB technologies and helped attract first-time attendees.
These certifications support the progressive introduction of a complete range of bio-attributed specialty resins and additives for lower-VOC- and lower-carbon-intensive technologies including high-solid, waterborne, UV/LED, and polyester powders.
The company announces its partnership in the EPA's Green Power Partnership (GPP). AkzoNobel has achieved EPA GPP recognition for using 69 million kilowatt-hours of green power annually at its manufacturing sites in the United States.
The newly acquired facility, located in Valencia, California, will serve as a hub for the company's expanded operations, providing ample space for research and development, manufacturing, and administrative functions.
The rapid growth of the automotive EV sector, growing urbanization, increasing disposable income, and increasing gross domestic product drive the powder coatings market, according to the report from MarketsandMarkets.
Under the plan, DuPont would execute the proposed separations of its Electronics and Water businesses in a tax-free manner to its shareholders, with New DuPont continuing as a premier diversified industrial company following completion of the separations.