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The Lubrizol Corp., a Berkshire Hathaway Company, announced that Rebecca Liebert has been named the company’s president and CEO, effective October 3, 2022.

After two postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FEICA European Adhesive and Sealant Conference & EXPO 2022 took place at the Grand Elysée Hotel in Hamburg, Germany, from September 14-16.

APPLIED Adhesives, an adhesive solutions provider in North America, has completed its acquisition of In-Line Finishing Solutions, LLC, a specialty adhesive and coating solutions provider to the direct mail (DM) and label converting markets located in Chicago, Illinois.

XlynX Materials Inc., a specialty chemical company based in Victoria, Canada, announced the release of PlastiLynx^©, a surface-activating primer designed specifically for use with low-surface-energy polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene, etc.).

Arkema finalized the acquisition of Polimeros Especiales, strengthening the group’s offering in solvent-free solutions and its position in this fast-growing region.

Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine have named Dow as one of the 2022 Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production™.

With POLYVEST eCO, Evonik’s Coating & Adhesive Resins business line has launched a new range of sustainable liquid polybutadienes.

At an extraordinary general meeting, the shareholders of Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel) appointed new CEO Gregoire Poux-Guillaume as a member of the Board of Management, effective November 1, 2022.

The ChemQuest Group has promoted Edye Fox Abrams to the role of vice president, business development and marketing.

Inspired by examples of hierarchical structures improving the properties of soft materials, the authors have explored methods to apply these concepts to waterborne acrylic PSAs made by emulsion polymerization. In this work, they attempted to build a sacrificial bond network into a PSA through multistage emulsion polymerization.