Company Dynamic

Tekni-Plex Inc. is launching a new aroma experience aimed at keeping products safer.

• Sniff Seal
• Tekni-Plex

Holding company Westfall Technik Inc. added AMS Plastics Inc. and AMS's maquiladora Operaciones de Clase Mundial SA de CV to its growing plastics industry portfolio.

Plastics Hall of Famer John Beaumont wants to make sure the U.S. plastics market can find the skilled workers that it needs. But at the same time, Beaumont sees some alarming factors that are making that challenge tough to meet.

An Ireland-based injection molder that recently expanded into North America is considering an initial public offering of stock on Toronto's stock exchange.

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals will start supplying the first-ever emulsion-based organic peroxides in the U.S. for the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The emulsion products are safer alternatives to solvent-based peroxides for making PVC...

• Plastic
• AkzoNobel
• Organic

PPG recently completed a COLORFUL COMMUNITIES project in Wuppertal, Barmen, Germany, that helped revitalize a house for “Treffpunkt für Alleinerziehende” (Meeting Point for Single Parents). The Colorful Communities program provides PPG volunteers...

BASF has extended its production facilities for Joncryl water-based emulsions. In addition to the production site in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, BASF has ramped up its production of selected Joncryl...

BASF has extended its production facilities for Joncryl water-based emulsions. In addition to the production site in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, BASF has ramped up its production of selected Joncryl...

• BASF
• Production

PPG recently completed a COLORFUL COMMUNITIES project in Wuppertal, Barmen, Germany, that helped revitalize a house for “Treffpunkt für Alleinerziehende” (Meeting Point for Single Parents). The Colorful Communities program provides PPG volunteers...

• PPG
• Volunteers

Under the brand of Master Builders Solutions, BASF SE presents the extra heavy-duty Ucrete flooring systems range. Ucrete is a highly durable surface protection system based on a unique polyurethane resin technology, which meets and exceeds ...

Under the brand of Master Builders Solutions, BASF SE presents the extra heavy-duty Ucrete flooring systems range. Ucrete is a highly durable surface protection system based on a unique polyurethane resin technology, which meets and exceeds ...

• BASF
• Ucrete

Henkel announced a new partnership with Waste Free Oceans to remove plastic waste from oceans and rivers – and transform it into over a million bottles used for its Lovables laundry brand. The collaboration is the largest that the non-governmental...

• Henkel
• Plastics
• Waste Free

The Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) has announced the re-election of its Chairman Mr. Yousef Al-Benyan, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), for a new three-year term...

• GPCA
• SABIC
• People

WACKER is debuting its new flexible dispersible polymer powder VINNAPAS4240 N at Paint Instabul 2018, which takes place March 22-24 at the Instanbul Expo Center...

• WACKER
• Polymer

DSM said its Decovery plant-based resin technology was used for the first time on Weekamp’s new 100 percent recycled exterior doors concept. This is a result of a collaboration between PPG Wood Finishes, Weekamp Deuren and DSM to further develop...

• DSM
• Decovery

Lomon Billions said it intends to buy Sichuan Anning Iron and Titanium Co., Ltd., an ilmenite and iron concentrate producer in Panzhihua, China, for 4.5-5 billion RMB ($789.70 million).

• Acquisition

There has been another tremendous response to AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals' Imagine Chemistry challenge, with 150 innovative ideas being submitted by chemistry startups, scale-ups, scientists and university teams for the 2018 edition.

• AkzoNobel
• Challenge

Faced with regulatory approvals, on March 1, 2018, American chemicals firm, Tronox, announced that it has agreed to extend the deadline related to the acquisition of Cristal’s titanium dioxide business headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Faced with regulatory approvals, on March 1, 2018, American chemicals firm, Tronox, announced that it has agreed to extend the deadline related to the acquisition of Cristal’s titanium dioxide business headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Tronox
• Acquisition
• Cristal

US-based speciality chemicals maker, Solenis, has announced the completion of the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares of Topchim NV.