Recent shocks in supply chains that manifested in increased inventory holdings and subsequent destocking have subsided, and the industry has relearned a critical lesson from the volatility—the importance of supply chain reliability.

The newly selected partner will be responsible for dispersions, resins, and additives for the United States.

As part of our focus on distributors in this issue, PCI met with Univar Solutions’ Chris Fitzgerald, global vice president for Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants & Elastomers, and Rubber & Plastic Additives to talk about the role that distributors play, benefits they offer, challenges they face, and innovation in the coatings industry today.

The Bodo Möller Chemie Group announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Henkel Bergquist. 

OCSiAl, supplier of graphene nanotube solutions, and chemical distributor H.M. Royal have signed an exclusive license agreement for the U.S. elastomer market.

KRAHN Chemie and UPM Biochemicals signed an exclusive distribution agreement to market UPM BioMotion™ renewable functional fillers (RFF) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 

Applied Graphene Materials (AGM) has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Rayoung Chemtech Inc., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

Arkema recently announced that Brenntag has been appointed as a distributor for Arkema waterborne resins in Mexico, covering the ENCOR^®, CELOCOR^® SNAP^® and NEOCAR^® brands of resins. 

Superior Materials Inc. recently announced that effective March 18, 2022, PQ Corp., a company Superior Materials has represented since 2018, will expand its sales responsibilities. 

Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd. recently announced that it has entered into an exclusive distributor partnership with TCL Hofmann for its Business Unit (BU) Coatings.