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Operated by the company’s Pulp and Performance Chemicals business, the state-of-the-art Jupiá facility represents one of AkzoNobel’s largest investments in Latin America. It will supply, store and handle all chemicals for the 1.5 million tons per year Eldorado mill under an agreement...

3M™ is debuting two products at this week’s Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Congress in San Diego — the new 3M™ SpotOn™ temperature monitoring system and the new 3M™ Surgical Clipper Professional 9681.
 
The 3M SpotOn temperature...

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Evonik Industries is now bringing on to the market the successful TAICROS® crosslinking booster in yet another promising application: As an additive in UV-curable clear coatings, TAICROS® ensures chemical resistance and improved mechanical properties.
 
Market demand is growing...

Monsanto Company announced that it has completed the purchase of substantially all of the assets, and assumption of certain liabilities, of Rosetta Green Ltd. 
 
Rosetta Green develops improved plant traits for agriculture using RNA technology. Rosetta Green experts specialize in...

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To better serve customers in the packaging industry seeking innovative, high quality and sustainable materials, SABIC announced a product range expansion to encompass specialized medium-density (MD) LDPE film grades - typically used for applications requiring high clarity and stiffness, such as collation...

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The specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG has achieved substantially higher earnings in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the same quarter in 2011, despite soft underlying demand. LANXESS increased EBITDA pre exceptionals by 37 percent year-on-year to EUR 239 million from EUR 174 million a year...

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BASF and Shell have entered into a three-year agreement that will position BASF as a supplier of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts to Shell’s global refining network. This enhanced relationship agreement also includes collaborative activities designed to accelerate the introduction of new...

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Kuraray announces the decision to increase the prices of its EVOH resin (ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer; Kuraray trademark: EVAL), EVOH film (EVAL film) and KURARISTER for shipments commencing March 11, 2013. Details of the price revisions are given below:
- EVAL  - ¥60 per kilogram;  ...

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Bayer HealthCare is expanding its global distribution network for the Medrad™ Intego™ PET Infusion System through a new distribution agreement with Comecer, SPA, a world leader in protection technologies in nuclear medicine. Through this agreement, Bayer and Comecer are providing customers...

Cooper Tire (heaquartered in Findlay, OH) and the Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V. (heaquartered in Altamira, ZAC, Mexico) subsidiary of Grupo Kuo, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to the two organizations for a process to produce silane, hydrophobated silica,...

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A. Schulman, Inc. announced that it has made a proposal to the board of directors of Ferro Corporation to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Ferro common stock for per-share consideration of $6.50, representing an estimated total enterprise value of approximately $855 million including total indebtedness. ...

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Albemarle Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of antioxidants for lubricants, petroleum and biodiesel fuels, announced that it will increase the price of ETHANOX 4716 on all shipments globally by $0.25/kg effective immediately, or as contracts allow.
 
ETHANOX antioxidants...

SGL Group – The Carbon Company – has developed a new type of carbon fiber reinforced graphite material designed for industrial heat treatment applications. The product is carbon fiber reinforced carbon (CFRC), a high-strength composite comprising a graphite matrix and reinforcing fibers made...

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Gastank Sweden AB obtained the certificate according to UN ECE R110 regulation for its new Type IV Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) cylinders for motor vehicles. Using Dow’s composite resin technology together with HiPer-tex glass fiber from 3B, Gastank Sweden AB offers high-performing and cost effective...

Cytec Coating Resins is excited to be participating in the ‘JEC Europe 2013’ composites show and conference in Paris March 12-14. Visitors to JEC Europe 2013 will learn about how radiation cured coating technology is an effective zero-VOC, reduced waste, fast curing alternative for continuous...

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SNC-Lavalin is pleased with the Government of Canada's decision to engage the private sector in the management of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL) Nuclear Laboratories.
 
SNC-Lavalin Inc. believes AECL and the Laboratories at Chalk River are of significant importance to...

For the first time, URALCHEM became an exhibitor at one of the largest agricultural shows in Mexico, Expo Agro Sinaloa 2013. The event is held annually in the state of Sinaloa on the Mexican west coast, one of the most developed agricultural regions of Mexico, and traditionally involves companies from...

Tessenderlo Group (headquarters in Brussels, Belgium) announced that it has received an offer for its Compounds activities from Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, a global industrial company already present in the compounds industry. The intended sale comprises four production sites in France, Poland and...

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As recently as ten months after the fire in Evonik Industries’, cyclododecatriene (CDT) plant, CDT-based VESTAMID® products and its precursors are available once again without limitations, thus force majeure ceased. After the reconstructed plant resumed operations at the Marl site in December,...

Following the commercial success of Medalist® medical thermoplastic elastomers in the U.S.A., Teknor Apex Company has extended its international supply capabilities for these compounds by achieving ISO-13485 certification for its manufacturing facility in Oldbury, West Midlands, UK.