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Cutting-edge innovations for paints and coatings
The secret to prevailing in the face of market challenges and achieving economic success is to innovate. As an innovation manager or the head of research and...
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Akzo Nobel develops novel technology platform to manufacture ethylene amines
Akzo Nobel's Specialty Chemicals business has developed a novel technology platform for producing ethylene amines and their derivatives from ethylene oxide. ...
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Flame retardancy of modified alkyd resin
DOPO (9,10-Dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide) has been widely used as effective flame retardants. In this study, a DOPO derivate was used as a reactant...
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Wacker to build new production facilities for dispersions in South Korea
Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its existing production plants for polymer binders in South Korea. The Munich-based chemical company plans to build a new spray...
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Momentive expands distribution agreement with Safic-Alcan
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. has expanded its distribution agreement with Safic-Alcan to include Eastern Europe.
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Tikkurila-CEO is leaving the company
Erkki Järvinen, CEO of the Finnish coatings company Tikkurila is leaving the company. The company already appointed an interim president and CEO. Lately, the ...
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BASF divests production site for paper coating dispersions in Austria
BASF will divest its business with paper coating dispersions in Pischelsdorf, Austria, and will concentrate the production in Europe at two sites, the Ludwigshafen...
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Adduct hardeners and REACH
When manufacturing epoxy resin hardeners with specific properties, the amines used need to form adducts, involving adding compounds. Using the current technique ...
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Bodo Möller Chemie takes over distribution for Dow Automotive in Hungary
From now on, Bodo Möller Chemie assumes sales of the Dow Automotive Adhesives products in Hungary, Romania and Serbia.
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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 ...