Specialty chemical company Albemarle Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its polyolefin catalysts and components business to W. R. Grace & Co.
The province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research), ECN (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands) and the Flemish VITO are jointly investing €10 million in the development of bio-aromatics, sustainable raw materials for the chemical industry.
The British Coatings Federation picked up a third major award in 2017, winning the Industry Leadership award at the fourth British Standards Institution's Awards.
Researchers at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, have chemically imprinted polymer particles with DNA strands – a technique that could lead to new materials for applications ranging from biomedicine to the promising field of "soft robotics."
The MGM National Harbor Hotel and Casino in Maryland is finished with PPG DURANAR coatings in five colors – Kuala White, Natural Silver and three versions of Platinum Mica.