Keyword: Coatings

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Arkema to Divest South African Coatings Business

13.12.2013 - Declaring the activities to be non-strategic, French chemical producer Arkema plans to sell its two coatings subsidiaries in South Africa to Ferro Industrial Producers, a...

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Evonik Expanding Capacity for Isophorone in China

18.11.2013 - German chemical group Evonik is spending more than €100m capacity upgrade for isophorone and isophorone diamine at its Shanghai, China, complex. The expansion, designed to meet...

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Dow Chemical Puts Additional Businesses up for Sale

30.10.2013 - Dow Chemical is hanging the "for sale" sign on additional links in its value chain, raising the sum of assets it plans to divest over the next few months from $1.5 billion to $3-4...

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Biesterfeld Spezialchemie to Represent DIC Performance Resins

20.09.2013 - With immediate effect Biesterfeld Spezialchemie is taking over the distribution of Austria's DIC Performance Resins products in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Battery Material Producers Remain Optimistic

06.08.2013 - Technology - Companies developing and producing chemicals for the large battery market are remaining bullish about its prospects despite its spectacular failure so far to live up...

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BASF Shifts R&D Focus

29.07.2013 - Technology - After announcing the framework of a new R&D strategy in the spring of last year, BASF is beginning to reveal in detail just how it is affecting its research operations...

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Boosting Global Expansion

13.05.2013 - Business - Shell Chemicals held a ground-breaking ceremony last month for the building of facilities for making high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) and ethoxylates at its site in...

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Wacker Starts Up New Production Plant for Dispersions in China

22.04.2013 - Today, Wacker Chemie officially ramped up its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Nanjing site (Jiangsu province, China). With the...