German company Pinpools and Dutch company TankContainerFinder.com (TCF), both founded in 2017, have created digital platforms to improve the chemicals and tank container business.

Spanish chemical company Laiex opens a plant in Germany together with its new partner, König Ludwig Beteiligungsgesellschaft.

SI Group announced an agreement to sell the majority of its global industrial resin businesses and its Brazilian specialty business to ASK Chemicals.

A film coating plant has been put into operation at BASF's Münster site in Germany.

In a recently published work, various fluorinated polysiloxane coatings with hydrophobic characteristics were fabricated and coated on phosphatised Q235 carbon steel (PCS) to improve the corrosion resistance and antifouling performances.

In a new paper, chitosan (CH) and ammonium polyphosphate (APP) were used as the intumescent flame retardant system which was constructed on PET fabrics surface via the Layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly technique.

Material stress is normally not good for polymer films in paints and varnishes, after all it can lead to damage and failure of the protective function. A Nature article now shows how it can also be used for colouring.

The court of the European Union has confirmed in a recent ruling that bisphenol A must be classified as a substance of very high concern. The Luxembourg judges dismissed a complaint by the PlasticsEurope plastics association.

In a recently published study, casein-based ZnO nanocomposite were prepared via double in situ polymerisation, where y-(2,3-epoxypropoxy) propytrimethoxysilane (KH560) was used as silane coupling agent.