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This company’s new Hostavin 3330 disp. XP reportedly offers an active UV absorber content of 52%.

BYK Kometra recently announced the opening of a new production building in Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

AkzoNobel recently announced plans to boost capacity at its Battleground, Texas, site.

The high-performance material is reportedly  a viable replacement in select traditional polytetramethylene ether glycol (PTMEG) applications.

Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. recently announced plans to build a new plant in Chonburi, Thailand, to increase its capacity to produce acrylic-based resins and service customers in Southeast Asia.

Wacker Chemie AG recently announced it is expanding its production capacity in South Korea for vinyl acetateethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions by constructing a new plant with an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, IGM Resins is a global specialty chemical company and leading supplier of photoinitiators and acrylates.

Dow Corning® 3055 resin reportedly allows manufacturers of high-performance coatings to formulate low-VOC, next-generation polysiloxane coatings with urethane, epoxy, polyester, alkyd, amine and acrylic systems.

This company’s Zinc Omadine® ZOE™ antimicrobial product and related zinc pyrithione compounds can be used to protect the surfaces of coatings and other dry films from fungal and algal growth.