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Ellsworth Adhesives recently announced the addition of Carl Lechner as the company’s General Sales manager for the South region.

TEC recently announced that its products have been endorsed by Crossville for use with its Laminam^®by Crossville^®line of large thin porcelain panels.

Scott Bader recently announced that Umoe Schat-Harding Equipment AS (USH) has achieved another freefall record for its rapid evacuation freefall (FF) class lifeboats with a lifeboat bonded with Crystic® Crestomer® structural adhesive.

PPG Industries’ Aerospace Transparencies group has named Arthur C. Scott global market director for Commercial Transparencies and Mark Hood global market director for General Aviation Transparencies.

AkzoNobel recently announced it has finalized the €260 million (~ $352 million) divestment of its Building Adhesives business to Sika AG.

Henkel recently announced it has joined forces with five additional chemical companies in a new collaborative initiative, “Together for Sustainability.”

KODA Distribution Group (KDG) recently announced that Joel W. Jones has been appointed chief commercial officer.

Hot-melt adhesives are increasingly becoming popular due to their fast setting speed, relatively low cost, and low environmental impact, according to a new report.

Housing markets in 52 out of the approximately 350 metro areas nationwide have now returned to or exceeded their pre-recessionary levels of activity.

The Performance Products division of Huntsman Corp. recently announced plans to refocus its surfactants business in Europe.