Coatings Trends & Technologies will feature educational conference sessions in a two-track format, as well as tabletop exhibits and various opportunities to network with industry colleagues.
July 9, 2020
Hundreds of coatings formulators and chemists are expected to attend Coatings Trends & Technologies (CTT), which will be held September 9-10 in the Chicago suburb of Lombard, Ill. The event will feature educational conference sessions in a two-track format, as well as tabletop exhibits and various opportunities to network with industry colleagues.
The Kuraray Foundation of America will support Kuraray America’s employees and their communities in the wake of natural disasters and other significant events.
July 8, 2020
Officials with Kuraray America, Inc. recently announced that the company has launched the Kuraray Foundation of America, Inc.
The new European production line will come online for industrial supply in early 2022, with a production capacity of several thousand tons per year.
July 8, 2020
Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd. recently announced its intention to open a new manufacturing line to produce epoxy encapsulation composite materials for automotive applications at its Belgian production subsidiary, Vyncolit NV.
DuPont reports that Kimberly Markiewicz will advance the company’s global DE&I programs and initiatives to help fuel innovation that leads to business success.
July 7, 2020
DuPont recently announced that Kimberly Markiewicz has been appointed vice president for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I).
The transaction will reportedly significantly broaden Nouryon’s portfolio of products in carboxymethyl cellulose, a sustainable, bio-based water-soluble polymer used as a thickener, binder, stabilizer, and film former.
July 7, 2020
Nouryon has completed its previously announced acquisition of the carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) business of J.M. Huber Corp.
The specialty chemicals value chain has risen to the challenge of retooling to fill large supply gaps for sanitation products, packaging containers and inks, and other essential products to meet spikes in demand as an outgrowth of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A collaboration between Henkel and Origin to use additive manufacturing in the production of nasopharyngeal swabs drew the most reader interest last week.
AkzoNobel’s Paint the Future initiative is focused on establishing an innovation ecosystem to help accelerate, test, launch, and scale ideas and solutions for the paints and coatings industry.
July 6, 2020
Five companies have embarked on an innovation journey with AkzoNobel after their ideas were selected as part of the company’s Paint the Future supplier collaboration program.