Keyword: Coatings

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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...

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Arkema Starts Commercial Acceleration Program with SpecialChem

06.03.2013 - Arkema has selected SpecialChem's Commercial Acceleration Solutions to support the global growth of its water-based fluoropolymer Kynar Aquatec latex in the exterior building and...

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Reverdia Starts World’s First Large-Scale Bio-Based Succinic Acid Plant

26.02.2013 - Reverdia, a global producer of starch and starch-derivatives, has begun operations in Cassano Spinola, Italy, at a commercial-scale plant producing Biosuccinium sustainable...

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AkzoNobel to Divest Its North American Decorative Paints Business

14.12.2012 - AkzoNobel today announced the divestment of its North American Decorative Paints business to PPG Industries, for the value of $1.05 billion. In 2011, the North American Decorative...

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Arkema Expands Coating Business in Asia Pacific Region

28.11.2012 - Arkema, a global leader in specialty chemicals and a major global coating material player will present its latest developments in Asia for the coating business at Chinacoat 2012...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Metal Fluorides

21.11.2012 - A recently developed fluorolytic sol-gel route to metal fluorides and their specific chemical properties open a broad range of scientific and technical perspectives: they allow...