Akzo Nobel will form a new unit, Ink & Adhesive Resins, by merging the businesses Printing Ink Resins and Pine Specialties, with a combined total of 550 employees.
The BroadBeam line of electron beam processors is available as a result of the acquisition of this technology by PCT Product & Manufacturing LLC from Bemis Clysar, Inc.
Dr. Guenter Oertel, one of the chief developers of reaction injection molding (RIM) technology for polyurethanes, became the sixth member of the Alliance for the Polyurethanes Industry's (API) Polyurethane Hall of Fame.