Omya Acquires Bublon, Extends Lightweight Fillers Portfolio
Omya has acquired Bublon GmbH, a technology company that produces microspheres using closed-cell expanded perlite. Read More…
PPG Opens $30M Battery Pack Application Center in China
PPG has inaugurated a battery pack application center (BPAC) in Tianjin, China. The $30 million facility was designed with many features for testing the application of PPG coatings technologies, materials and systems for electric vehicle (EV) battery packs. Read More…
PaintCare Bill Passes Illinois Legislature
Legislation to bring the PaintCare program to Illinois, was adopted by the Illinois General Assembly on May 19. At press time, the legislation was to be sent to Gov. J. B. Pritzker. Read More…
Nouryon Signs Power Purchase Agreement for U.S. Solar Project
Nouryon announced that it has signed a 30-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Convergent Energy and Power to supply 2-megawatt (MW) of solar power to Nouryon’s manufacturing site in Morris, Ill. The onsite solar field is expected to be operational in the second half of 2024. Read More…
LANXESS Doubles Capacity for High-Purity Benzyl Alcohol in North America
LANXESS doubled its production capacity for benzyl alcohol at its site in Kalama, Wash., to support the growth of its customer base in the Americas. The capacity expansion is the result of various technical upgrades. Read More…
DKSH Performance Materials Moves to New Office in the Netherlands
DKSH Performance Materials moved to a new 360-square-meter sales office in Roermond, Netherlands, to serve the Benelux region. Read More…
Brenntag and ML Polyolefins Sign Cooperation Agreement
Brenntag announced a new agreement with ML Polyolefins to serve Scandinavia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cooperation will focus on applications like automotives and appliances, where there is a high demand for using recyclates. Read More…
WACKER Completes Capacity Expansion for Dispersions and Powders in Nanjing
WACKER announced the completion of the capacity expansion for vinyl-acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions and VAE dispersible polymer powders at its Nanjing site in China. Read More…
BASF Upgrades R&D with Supercomputer
BASF upgraded to a new supercomputer at its Ludwigshafen site to be used for research and development. The new supercomputer has three petaflops of computing power, replacing the existing supercomputer with 1.75 petaflops. Read More…
PPG Invests $44 Million to Boost Global Powder Production
PPG announced a $44 million investment to upgrade five powder coating manufacturing facilities in the United States and Latin America. Read More…