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Archroma opens Global Center of Excellence for Surface & Coating Technology

Archroma has officially inaugurated its new Global Center of Excellence for Surface & Coating Technology, which underlines the company’s ambition to bring...

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Wacker’s 2017 forecast is again for sales growth and high net cash flow

Wacker Chemie AG has met its sales target and exceeded its earnings expectations in 2016. On presenting its annual report, the chemical company announced that ...

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Surface engineering of coatings for marine antibiofouling

A range of amphiphilic polymers with diverse macromolecular architectures has been incorporated into films and coatings with potential for marine antibiofouling...

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High bio-content natural plant oil based UV-curable branched oligomers

A new, green approach to improve the performance and biorenewable content of natural plant oil based UV-curable materials is presented by researchers from North...

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Wacker expands production capacity for dispersions in Germany

Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its production plants for polymeric binders in Germany. The chemical group is currently building another dispersion reactor with an ...

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Borregaard receives funding for two bio-material innovation projects

Borregaard has been awarded funding of EUR1.56 million from the Research Council of Norway for two different innovation projects on the utilisation of lignin from ...

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Increasing the stability of self-healing polymer networks

German researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technology have utilised a reversible thiol-ene click reaction to ...

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Formaldehyde-free adhesive for industrial use in the wood-processing industry

A new research project aims to come up with a formaldehyde-free, sustainable and non-toxic adhesive for industrial use in the wood-processing industry.

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Akzo Nobel signs agreement on bio-based polymer technology with Itaconix

Akzo Nobel has signed a framework joint development agreement with specialty chemicals company Itaconix to explore opportunities for the production of bio-based ...

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DVUV Holdings announces new corporate name and reorganises structure

DVUV Holdings, LLC announces its new corporate name and a reorganisation and rebranding of its operating companies. The new corporate name is Keyland Polymer ...

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Preparing soybean oil-based curing agents for epoxy resin

In order to improve the flexibility properties of conventional epoxy resin, researchers from Guangdong University of Technology have synthesised two novel soybean...

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Biodegradable resin for adhesives and coatings

Researchers have patented the first plant-based resin of its kind that would be ideal for tapes, labels and other adhesive uses. It also can provide shiny coatings....

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Lonza extends agreement with Azelis in Europe

Azelis has announced an extended distribution agreement to offer Lonza’s materials protection ingredients to industrial market segments such as paints, coatings, ...

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Altana acquires formulated resins business from Solvay

The specialty chemicals group Altana has acquired the formulated resins business of Belgian chemical group Solvay.