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.

Arpadis has been appointed official distributor for the polyasparaginates of US company Pflaumer Brothers. The agreement covers the sales and promotion of the product line in Europe and the Middle East.

Swiss company Sanitized Preservation AG, which specializes in antimicrobial protection of paints and coatings, will open a new subsidiary in India.

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.

In a present research, three different fillers including nano-alumina (NA), detonation (DND) and non-detonation (NDND) nanodiamonds were added to polyacrylic base automotive clear coats to improve the performance of the coating.