News Raw Materials
Lomon Billions appoints Julie Reid as Marketing Director
Lomon Billions has announced the appointment of Julie Reid to the role of Marketing Director.
News Raw Materials
Akzo Nobel unveils new strategy to split up
Akzo Nobel has outlined a new strategy to accelerate growth with two high-performing businesses - Paints and Coatings and Specialty Chemicals - which shall lead to ...
News Raw Materials
Don’t miss the deadline: REACH Pre-registrations
The next REACH phase entails a registration for companies that either produce substances in amounts between 1 and 100 tons or import them into the European ...
News Raw Materials
Milliken acquires Keystone Aniline Corporation
Milliken & Company, a leading supplier of polymer-bound colourants and additives, has acquired Keystone Aniline Corporation, a global leader in dyes, pigments,...
News Raw Materials
Nyanza Light Metals’ plant provides titanium dioxide pigment to Africa
Africa’s titanium pigment market will have a new player through a technology partnership between Nyanza Light Metals and Avertana of New Zealand.
News Raw Materials
Sika starts strong with 10.7% sales growth in the first quarter of 2017
With double-digit sales growth in the first quarter, a new sales record of EUR1,300 million was set. This equates to an increase of 10.7% in local currencies ...
News Raw Materials
Berger Paints and Chugoku Marine Paints sign Memorandum of Understanding
Berger Paints and Chugoku Marine Paints of Japan have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation and collaboration in the fields of marine ...
News Raw Materials
Axalta Coating Systems to acquire Valspar’s North American industrial wood coatings business
Axalta will buy Valspar’s business for USD 420 million in cash. Valspar is not selling entirely voluntary.
News Raw Materials
Toyo Ink and Doneck enter licensing agreement for water-based lamination inks
Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. and Doneck Euroflex S.A. have concluded a licensing agreement that allows Doneck to manufacture and sell Toyo Ink's "Aqua Liona” and ...
News Raw Materials
Coatings sector warns of Brexit risks in major industry survey
A major survey conducted by the British Coatings Federation (BCF) has revealed some significant concerns of the coatings sector regarding the economic and regulatory...
News Raw Materials
Kick-off for major fire retardant conference
Last week, a kick-off meeting for the European Coatings Fire Forum took place in Germany with major influencers from academia and industry. The meetings' goal was...
News Raw Materials
Looser Holding sells Feyco Treffert Group and Schekolin to Teknos Group
Looser Holding AG is selling the Feyco Treffert Group and Schekolin AG with the plant in Bendern (FL) to the Finnish Teknos Group.
News Raw Materials
High performance polyurea coatings based on cardanol
A research work deals with the synthesis of phenalkamines and their use as curing agents for blocked polyisocyanates to yield high performance polyurea coatings....
News Raw Materials
Hubergroup acquires Alden & Ott Printing Inks
Hubergroup, Inc. and Alden & Ott Printing Inks have announced that Hubergroup has acquired substantially all of the assets of Alden & Ott in a private deal. ...