AkzoNobel has signed a framework joint development agreement with specialty chemicals company Itaconix to explore opportunities for the production of biobased polymers.
Pilot Chemical Co. has earned its certification under the American Chemistry Council (ACC) Responsible Care® program, demonstrating the company’s commitment to the highest standards of health, safety, security and environmental performance for both its products and operations.
Kansas State University researchers have patented the first plant-based resin of its kind that would be ideal for re-adherable painters' tape, labels, packing tapes, stationery notes and other adhesive uses. It also can provide shiny coatings.
Green Biologics Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of UK-based Green Biologics Ltd., has been named to the 2017 Global Cleantech 100 and recognized in the 2016 Global Clean Energy Awards as the Best Renewable Specialty Chemical Company – UK.
Sartomer Americas, a business unit of Arkema Inc., has released “Coatings Concepts,” a free technical booklet that contains six articles by industry experts to help compounders enhance their coatings formulations.
Renewable materials company BioAmber Inc. has entered into an underwriting agreement with Rodman & Renshaw, a unit of H.C. Wainwright & Co. LLC, as sole book running manager and representative of several underwriters, under which the underwriters have agreed to purchase on a firm commitment basis a minimum of 2,105,264 shares of common stock of the company, together with warrants to purchase a minimum of 1,052,632 shares of common stock of the company with an exercise price of $5.50 per share of common stock (the “Exercise Price”), at a price to the public of $4.75 per share and associated warrant (the “Public Price”).