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New anorganic blue pigment soon to be offered on the market
The only blue to be discovered in the last 200 hundred years will soon be introduced to the market. Back in 2009, Mas Subramanian and his team at the Oregon State ...
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Clariant and Huntsman agree to merge
Huntsman Corporation and Switzerland's Clariant AG have reached an agreement to merge, continuing a consolidation push in the chemicals industry.
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Henkel to acquire Sonderhoff Group
Henkel is strengthening its Adhesive Technologies business with a new acquisition.
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Sika invests in larger production site in Kazakhstan
Sika has relocated its concrete admixture and mortar production in Almaty, in the south of Kazakhstan, to a larger site in the 1.7-million-population city.
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Proposed restriction of diisocyanates
Diisocyanates widely serve as monomers in polyurethane products for seals, adhesives and coatings in the coatings industry. Workers may be exposed to them when ...
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Clariant to invest in new additives’ facilities in China
Clariant underscores its commitment to Asia with a multi-million CHF investment by its additives business to ensure local manufacturing in China of high-end ...
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Radiation Curing: Expanding out of the niche
Some people say that radiation curing is only a niche technology. A look at the numbers shows that they are right – for the moment. Yet, radiation curing is ...
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New recruit underlines Flint Group’s commitment to the security inks segment
Flint Group has announced the hire of Christine Lancaster in the newly created position of Business Development Director, Security.
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Industry and members of British parliament align on future of REACH
Last month, the Environmental Audit Committee published the results of its inquiry into the future of chemicals regulation after Brexit, to which the British Coatings...
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New edition of “Fillers for Paints” launched
Now available in its third edition, the book "Fillers for Paints" has been updated with the latest market data, information about new fillers and an outlook on ...
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Radiation curing: giving films a smoother profile
A new paper investigates the film quality of electron beam curable varnish coatings on polymer web substrates. Properties were found to be affected by monomer...
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Rain Carbon gives starting signal for production plant of industrial resins
Rain Carbon Inc. has commissioned detailed engineering for a new plant for the production of important raw materials for the adhesives and coatings industry at ...
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Recycling: How sustainable is UV-curing?
Nowadays, it is hard to imagine a printing industry without the utilization of UV curing anymore. It is efficient, it is fast, it is cheap. However, the technology...
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Saudi Minister launches industry committee for the growing coating sector
Saudi Arabian Minister of Commerce and Investment, Dr Majid Al Kassabi, is set to launch the Kingdom’s first paint and coating industrial committee on May 24, 2017 ...