Additives
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Safic-Alcan and Schützen: New distribution agreement
Specialty chemicals distributor Safic-Alcan has announced a new exclusive distribution agreement with Schützen Chemical Group for biobased rheological modifiers.
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Scott Bader partners with Safic-Alcan
Scott Bader France is has announced a new partnership with Safic-Alcan, effective immediately, for the distribution of rheology modifiers and acrylic dispersions across France.
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Elementis and Grolman sign exclusive distribution agreement
Elementis and Grolman Group are set to begin an exclusive distribution relationship for DACH and Central Eastern Europe, effective beginning inf March, 2023.
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New cooperation between Devine Chemicals and Van Weezenbeek Dispersions
Since February 2023, the British additives manufacturer Devine Chemicals and the Dutch trading house Van Weezenbeek Dispersions have been cooperating in Germany.
News Coatings Technologies
Inorganic additives and their impact on automotive coating systems
Researchers have systematically varied inorganic additives and and studied their impact on interfacial delamination processes of automotive coating systems.
News Raw Materials
Interview: “Not a matter of ‘if’, but only of ‘when’”
Andre van Linden, R&D director Scientific Academic Partnerships at Akzo Nobel, expands on how additives can have a great impact on the sustainability of a coating and the shift to sustainable additives....
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Evonik increases additive capacities for architectural paints
Evonik's Coating Additives business line is increasing capacities of two additive product groups for architectural paints: hydrophobing agents and polyurethane thickeners. The new capacities will be available...
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Safic Alcan establishes its operations in South America
Specialty chemicals distributor Safic-Alcan has acquired 100% of Proquimil Produtos Químicos, a Brazilian chemical distributor specialising in rubber and plastic polymers and additives.
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Additives and resins in the focus of the September issue
The September issue of the European Coatings Journal is out. It features a full package on resins and additives: a market report, a product overview and expert interviews.
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Evonik increases production capacities for matting agents
Evonik’s Coating Additives business line is expanding the production capacity of precipitated matting agents at its manufacturing facility in Taiwan.
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Krahn Hellas signs distribution agreement with Byk
Krahn Hellas, the Greek subsidiary of Germany-based Krahn Chemie Group, expands its distribution portfolio with the additive range of Byk.
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Münzing puts new production plant into operation
After a three-year construction period, the family-owned company Münzing has officially inaugurated a new production plant for wax and polymer emulsions in Elsteraue / Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).
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Krahn Nordics bundles activities
The newly formed Krahn Nordics unites activities of Ampho Chem and Pemco Additives under its roof. By merging the two companies, the operational business is bundled in one company headquartered in Gothenburg,...
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Milliken & Company expands coating additives lab
Milliken & Company has made a significant investment in the coating additives laboratory it acquired in 2020 as part of its purchase of Borchers Americas in Westlake, Ohio.