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Sika acquires automotive glass replacement adhesive systems business
Sika Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Sika AG, has acquired the automotive glass replacement business of ADCO Products earlier this week. The business acquired reaches an annual turnover of approximately USD 6-7 million and will be integrated into Sika’s Aftermarket Business Unit in the United States and its Industry Division in Canada and Latin America. As part of the transaction, Sika acquired the rights to the "Titan" brand name of auto glass adhesives. Also, four sales representatives from ADCO’s AGR (Automotive Glass Replacement) division are expected to join Sika’s existing 21 person sales force. Sika Corporation is based in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
Shape memory effect is tunable
Shape memory polymers can memorise temporary shapes and revert to their permanent shape upon exposure to an external stimulus....
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Malvern Instruments and Particle Measuring Systems reorganize customer support in Nordic region.
Particle Measuring Systems established its own customer support office, but as many customers use systems from both Malvern and Particle Measuring Systems, the close working relationship between the two companies will be continued....
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Understanding Easy-to-clean coatings
W. Marshall Ming, University of New Hampshire explains, what attendees of the pre-conference tutorial on “Easy-to-clean coatings” can expect and who should attend the tutorial.By Dr. Sonja Schulte
Decorative paint market in Russia
The standard of living and purchasing power in Russia has increased. Therefore, Janno Paju, Vice President Deco Eastern Europe at Tikkurila Oy, expects the decorative paint market to grow, especially for interior applications. He further explains the structure of the Russian paint market comments on the competition in this region.By Damir Gagro
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(March 12, 2010)
Sustainability and furniture coatings - what does the future hold in store? I think that's a good question, since currently the furniture coatings market is still dominated by solventborne systems. On the other hand there are certain factors driving the industry to switch to waterborne solutions.
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A few days ago I came in an internet forum across with the question
"why should you use high-troughput?". Spontaneous my thoughts were like:
it's more efficent, it's more straightforward development and so on.
Then I followed a little more the discussion in the forum and found out,
that there seems to be a lot of uncertainty concerning the usefullnes of high-through put.
Find out, what people are discussing.
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