- Price Adjustments.
Dow Chemical Company Midland, MI Products: Propionic Acid, n-Butyl Acetate, Isobutyl Acetate, Isopropyl Acetate, n-Propyl Acetate, Dowanol[TM] PM, Dowanol PM Elec Grade, Dowanol DPM, Dowanol TPM, Dowanol PMA, Dowanol PMA Elec Grade, Dowanol DPMA, Dowanol PnP, Dowanol DPnP, Dowanol PnB, Dowanol DPnB, Dowanol TPnB, and Dowfroth[TM] 250A Increase: $0.03/lb in ......
- Buyers' guide: our alphabetical listing of the
major suppliers of raw materials, plant and machinery, and test
equipment for the paint and ink industries in the Middle East, North
Africa and Turkey....
contents suppliers classified by product Additives; Additives, Radiation Curing; Biocides; Chemicals; Colour and Gloss Measurement Systems; Colour Tinting Systems; Dispersion Equipment; Extenders and Fillers; Fats and Oils; Laboratory Mixers; Mixing Equipment; Pigment Dispersions; Pigments, Inorganic, Black; Pigments, Inorganic, Coloured; Pigments, Inorganic, Metallic; Pigments, Inorganic, White; Pigments, Organic, Dyes; Pigments, Organic, ......
- Polysaccharide resins for coatings.
The desire to produce lower VOC and higher performance coatings has led to innovative resin developments. One such innovation is the series of polysaccharide resins developed by Lorama Chemicals Inc, which can be used as coactive resins in both waterborne and solvent-based coatings. The Canadian company Lorama Chemicals Inc has ......
- Solutia.
Solutia, a supplier of resins and additives, has appointed Franz-Anton Bind as sales manager for Eastern Europe. He will be responsible for managing the sales of Solutia's liquid coating, powder coating, technical resins and additives. Bind, who has held several management positions in the German chemical industry, joined Solutia in ......
- Mergers & acquisitions in the coatings
industry.
The furious pace of merger and acquisition (M & A) activity in the chemical industry over the past two years has extended throughout all sectors including paints and coatings. Both private equity firms and strategic players have made acquisitions along the value chain from upstream commodity raw material suppliers to ......
- High performance water-based metal protection
coatings.
Ron Patel discusses the effect of raw materials on the performance of Goodyear's new high Tg carboxylated styrene acrylic latex using a water-based, styrenated acrylic resin in an industrial application. Due to increasing environmental pressure on solvent emissions, water-based coatings represent an attractive alternative to solvent-based coatings. The paint industry's ......
- Price adjustments.
Air Products Polymers, L.P. Lehigh Valley, PA Products: Flexcryl[R], Airflex[R], and Flexbond[R] acrylic-based polymers Increase: $0.04/wet lb in U.S. and Canada Effective: July 16, 2007 BASF Charlotte, NC Products: Acronal Optive[R] all-acrylic and Acronal[R] styrene-acrylic latex Increase: $0.04/wet lb in U.S. and Canada Effective: July 16, 2007, or per ......