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BASF expands production capacity at specialty amines complex in China
BASF will build a new specialty amines plant at its site in Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in China. The new multi-product plant can manufacture 21,000 metric ...
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Conflict on Huntsman Clariant merger
The opposition on the planned merger of US-based Huntsman Corporation and the Swiss company Clariant AG is getting stronger. Opposing Investors are now owning ...
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Improving the thermal properties of pigmented acrylic resin
Iranian researchers have investigated whether silica airogel improves the thermal properties of pigmented acrylic resin.
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PAINTINDIA: Call for paper ends on October 1
Until October 1, the call for paper for the 2018 PAINTINDIA CONGRESS is still open. After the success of 2016, Color Publications and Vincentz Network once ...
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BASF builds waterborne production plant for automotive coatings in Mexico
BASF has placed a cornerstone for its new waterborne production plant at the company’s manufacturing site in Tultitlan, Mexico. The new plant will provide ...
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New Chief Financial Officer at Akzo Nobel
Akzo Nobel has announced Maarten de Vries as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), starting January 1, 2018.
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Preparing alginate flame retardants for epoxy resins
In a study, researchers have evaluated the efficacy of a novel biomass flame retardant based on alginic acid in combination with a reactive phosphorus-silicon ...
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Evonik enters into strategic partnership with Melrob and NRC Group
The methacrylates business line is concentrating its sales activities; as part of this Evonik has given distribution rights for its methacrylate monomers in ...
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Modifying bitumen emulsions with triblock copolymer latex
Bitumen emulsions have often been modified by styrene-butadiene rubber latex. The modified bitumen can have excellent low-temperature cracking resistance, but...
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Akzo Nobel studies plans to build cellulosic ethers plant
Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business is studying plans to build a plant for its "Bermocoll" business, which supplies essential ingredients for the paint and...
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Facts in five: The automotive coatings market
New materials, developments in car-producing markets and autonomous driving as a future technology at the horizon – there is a lot of change ahead in the ...
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Carbonation of low-alkalinity mortars
Researchers have studied the ability of carbonated mortar to provide corrosion protection of embedded steel on mortars prepared with low-alkalinity binders.
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Nordmann, Rassmann acquires Melrob Group
Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH has acquired 100% of the shares in Melrob Group Holdings Ltd. (Melrob) of Crawley, UK. The acquisition includes all of Melrob’s subsidiaries...
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Self-healing nanogel composite embedded with epoxy as eco-friendly coating
Smart nanogel capsules are attracting great attention to act as self-healing materials for polymers. A research work aimed at incorporating nanogel among silicate...