Keyword: Coatings

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BASF to Spend €7 Million on German Coating Resin Expansion

22.01.2014 - BASF is spending some €7 million to expand and upgrade coating resins production at its Münster, Germany, site by 2016. Along with lengthening capacity by an undisclosed margin...

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Econic Technologies completes £5.1m Series A investment deal

16.01.2014 - Econic Technologies, a developer of new catalyst technology for manufacturing polymers from waste carbon dioxide, is pleased to announce that it has completed a £5.1m (approx. €6...

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BASF Wins F&S Awards for Coatings Portfolio

07.01.2014 - BASF has won the 2013 Product Line Strategy Leadership Award of Frost & Sullivan for its coatings raw material portfolio. The international consultancy said the Ludwigshafen...

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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...