Oxea Announces Price Increases for 2-Ethylhexanoic Acid for the Americas
Oxea will increase off-list prices in North America, Mexico and South America on 2‑ethylhexanoic acid effective Sept. 15, 2018, or…
Month: August 2018
Low free (LF) isocyanate urethane prepolymers for adhesives and sealants-LANXESS at FEICA Conference and Expo
Scientific presentation on Low Free (LF) isocyanate prepolymer chemistry, focused on LF MDI prepolymers with < 0.1 percent free MDI Low…
Personnel Changes at the Board of Executive Directors of BASF
The Board of Executive Directors of BASF has announced the following personnel changes: Fried-Walter Münstermann (54), President, Procurement, BASF SE,…
Stahl appoints new CFO
Stahl, headquartered in the Netherlands, announced today the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board…
The Carlyle Group and GIC identify new CEO for AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals pending completion of the sale
As part of the strategy to separate Specialty Chemicals from its Paints and Coatings business, AkzoNobel announced in March 2018…
IMCD to acquire European speciality chemicals distributor Velox
IMCD N.V. (“IMCD” or “Company”), a leading distributor of speciality chemicals and food ingredients, today announces that it signed an…
PPG to build new paint and coatings research and development center in Tianjin, China
PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced it has acquired land in Tianjin, China where it plans to build a new, state-of-the-art paint…
Touch the color with spectro2guide – Next generation color measurement by BYK-Gardner
BYK-Gardner - worldwide partner of the automotive, paint and plastic industries for quality control of color, appearance and physical properties…
Hexion Launches Innovative Polyol Technology for Polyurethane and Polyisocyanurate Foams
Novel building block materials recently introduced by Hexion Inc. (“Hexion” or the “Company”) offer polyurethane rigid foam producers an array…
APV Launches Innovative Anti-Microbial Capabilities To The Vynguard® Line Of Finishes At The 2018 IFAI Expo
APV will showcase VYNGUARD® performance finishes with the addition of a new anti-microbial technology at the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) Expo,…
Huntsman Opens Formulations Manufacturing Facility in Vietnam
Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) announced today that it has opened a multi-purpose facility at the Amata Vietnam Industrial Park, near…
Carbon in colour: First-ever coloured thin films of nanotubes created
Researchers present a technique to produce large quantities of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes in select shades of the rainbow. The…
LyondellBasell Begins Construction of the World’s Largest PO/TBA Plant
LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB), one of the world's largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies, today officially broke ground on what will be…
The thermal self‐healing phenolic polyurethane derived from polyphenols
Researchers investigated the effects of polyphenols with different substituents, namely propyl gallate, catechol, and tert‐butylhydroquinone, on the selfhealing performance of polyurethanes. Polyurethanes…
AkzoNobel supplies coatings for historic addition to Westminster Abbey
History has been made at Westminster Abbey in London with the first major addition to the famous church since 1745…
Clariant highlights colorful solutions for latex at IRGCE 2018
Clariant to participate at 9th International Rubber Glove Conference and Exhibition (IRGCE) 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 4-6 September Listed…
The European Commission clears the acquisition of the Specialty Chemicals Business of Akzo Nobel N.V. by the Carlyle Group
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of sole control over the Specialty Chemicals Business…
A Self-healable and Catalyst-free Epoxy Vitrimer System
Vitrimers are derived from thermosetting polymers and a class of plastics. In order to achieve the dynamic transesterification reaction (TER), all epoxy vitrimer systems described…
Evonik and Sanju establish strategic partnership
Evonik Industries AG (“Evonik”) and Beijing Sanju Environmental Protection & New Materials Co., Ltd. (“Sanju”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding…
Non-Stick Coatings in Aluminium Molds for the Production of Polyurethane Foam
The manufacturing of polyurethane foam is a process of great industrial importance in the automotive and furniture sector. The operation…
Evonik develops PEBA powder for 3D printing
The new high-performance powder stands out for its high elasticity and strength and is suitable for a variety of powder-based…
Hexion Enters New Contract with Fraunhofer Project Center to Jointly Develop Lightweight Composite Technologies for Automotive Applications
Hexion Inc. (“Hexion” or the “Company”) today announced a new three-year contract with the Fraunhofer Project Center (“the Center”) in…
Hull coatings, radar, and robots – Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to present maritime research highlights at SMM in Hamburg from 4 to 7 September
Biomimetic hull coatings, radar detection of shipwreck victims, innovative robots with intelligent sensor guidance for shipbuilding – just a few…
Emery Oleochemicals to Showcase New EMEROX® Polyols for Rigid Foam and CASE Applications at UTECH North America 2018
Gain a competitive advantage in your polyurethane formulations with enhanced low temperature thermal conductivity and superior hydrophobicity Emery Oleochemicals, a…
Corrosion resistance of graphene sheets with different structures in waterborne epoxy coatings
Although it was reported earlier that graphene can be used for corrosion protection, the effects of different structures were not…
Top 5 Most Read Articles of Week 34, 2018 on PCE
Please find below the top 5 most read articles of Week 34, 2018 on PCE. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter and subscribe to…
Mitsui Chemicals to Increase Production Capacity for TAFMER™ High-Performance Elastomers
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: Tsutomu Tannowa) today announced that Mitsui Elastomers Singapore Pte Ltd (MELS; Managing…
(US20180230245) METHOD OF MAKING FLUOROPOLYMER DISPERSION
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(WO2018149672) TWO-COMPONENT POLYURETHANE COMPOSITION COMPRISING A LATENT CATALYST
Pub. No.: WO/2018/149672 International Application No.: PCT/EP2018/052731 Publication Date: 23.08.2018 International Filing Date: 05.02.2018 IPC: C08G 18/76 (2006.01) ,C08G 18/12 (2006.01) ,C08G…
(US20180237654) FLUOROPOLYMER COATINGS COMPRISING AZIRIDINE COMPOUNDS
Application Number: 15953120 Application Date: 13.04.2018 Publication Number: 20180237654 Publication Date: 23.08.2018 Publication Kind : A1 IPC: C09D 127/22 C08K…