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Creative Materials recently completed its move to a new facility in Ayer, MA.

Duct tape is useful for all kinds of household repairs, but can it be used in fashion accessories? Two teenagers from Langhorne, Pa., have started a business making and selling

Emerald Performance Materials has named Robert L. Culp Jr. its new vice president of Procurement and Chris O’Neil vice president of Information Technology.

Eric Chiang takes the place of Len Thibodeau, who recently announced his retirement.

China is the biggest country in terms of titanium dioxide production and consumption, according to Research and Markets’ new “Survey of Titanium Dioxide in China, Sixth Edition.”

Brett Richardson has joined the company as program manager, Domestics Group.

Honeywell recently announced it has purchased Evonik Industries’ portfolio of manufacturing technology, including patents, for the production of polyethylene waxes used in a variety of applications ranging from coatings to adhesives and inks.

At the University of Toronto, a research team is studying structural adhesives to find out whether they can function as self-monitoring predictors of cracks and delamination in commercial airplanes.Click here

RadTech recently announced the adoption of ASTM D 7767-11, “Standard Test Method to Measure Volatiles from Radiation Curable Acrylate Monomers, Oligomers, and Blends and Thin Coatings Made from Them.”

Emerald Kalama Chemical, a division of Emerald Performance Materials LLC, has expanded its distribution agreement with Connell Brothers, a division of Wilbur-Ellis Co., to support growth of its K-FLEX® products in Asia.