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April 15, 2011
Ferro says it has opened a photovoltaic R&D laboratory in Neihu Technology Park at Taipei City, Taiwan. The center will perform tests related to the deposition of metallization...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Ferro-Opens-Solar-Tech-Center_34120.html April 15, 2011
Univar says it has invested approximately €1.5 million ($2.1 million) to construct a lubricants depot at its Gothenburg, Sweden site. The facility will handle more than 10 million...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Univar-Adds-Lubricants-Depot_34121.html April 15, 2011
Clariant says it increased by at least 10% global prices for several products sold by its detergents and intermediates business, including tetraacetyl ethylene diamine, Hostapur...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Specialty-Chemical-Price-Watch_34122.html April 15, 2011
Water treatment producers have announced several investments since the start of this year to keep up with rising demand. New capacity additions and investments in R&D are planned...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Strong-Demand-Spurs-Capacity-and-R-and-D-Investments_34123.html April 15, 2011
Sika (Baar, Switzerland) says its Sika China (Suzhou) subsidiary has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Hebei Jiuqiang Construction Material, a leading supplier of powder concrete...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Sika-Buys-Chinese-Admixture-Firm_34119.html March 25, 2011
Altana has acquired Watson Standard Adhesives Co.’s (Pittsburgh) can-end sealants business for the metal can packaging market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Altana-Buys-Can-End-Unit-in-Bid-To-Expand-in-Metal-Packaging_33707.html March 25, 2011
3M says it will triple its global capacity for optically clear adhesives (OCAs) by expanding at facilities in China, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. The additional capacity will support...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/3M-Adding-Consumer-Electronics-Adhesives-Capacity_33708.html March 25, 2011
BASF says it has opened an epoxy composite laboratory at its Tarrytown, NY technical center. Composites based on thermosetting epoxy resins are used in the production of modern wind...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/BASF-Opens-New-York-Epoxy-Lab_33710.html March 25, 2011
Univar says it has signed a non-exclusive agreement with Cytec Industries to distribute Cytec’s Radcure energy curable resins in Canada. The agreement will enable Cytec to provide...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Univar-Cytec-Distribution-deal_33711.html March 25, 2011
Pilot Chemical (Cincinnati) says it will increase global list and off-list pricing for certain surfactants due to rapidly escalating oleo and petroleum-based raw material costs...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Specialty-Chemicals-Price-Watch_33712.html March 25, 2011
3M says the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded it $4.4 million to accelerate development and commercialization of its Ultra Barrier Solar Film for copper indium gallium...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/3M-Awarded-Grant-for-Solar-Film_33709.html March 18, 2011
Precious metals firm Heraeus (Hanau, Germany) says it has begun constructing a facility in Singapore to produce silver metallization pastes used in polysilicon solar cell applications...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Heraeus-Adds-Pastes-Capacity_33493.html March 18, 2011
Global silicon wafer shipments increased 40% in 2010, to 9,370 million square inches, driven by a strong recovery for the semiconductor industry, says industry group Semi (Santa Clara...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Wafers-Rebound-40-percent_33494.html March 18, 2011
Oxea says it will build another carboxylic acids unit at Oberhausen Germany, expanding its total capacity by 40%, on top of an expansion announced at the end of 2010. The new unit will...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Oxea-Adding-Carboxylic-Acids_33495.html March 18, 2011
Chemtura says it has raised prices for certain Reofos and Kronitex brand flame retardants by 16%-18%, effective March 1 or as contracts allow Cytec Industries will increase global...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Specialty-Chemical-Price-Watch_33496.html March 18, 2011
Private Equity firm Bridgepoint (Frankfurt) has agreed to buy fine and specialty chemicals maker CABB (Sulzbach/Taunus, Germany) from AXA Private Equity (Paris). Bridgepoint paid more...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Bridgepoint-Buys-CABB-From-AXA-Private-Equity_33497.html March 18, 2011
Biotech startup Solazyme (San Francisco) says it has signed a deal with Dow Chemical to jointly develop Solazyme’s algal oils for use in biobased dielectric insulating fluids. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Dow-Taps-Solazyme-for-Biobased-Dielectric-Insulating-Fluid_33573.html March 18, 2011
Flex Displays: DuPont to optimize materials for printing structures on flexible substrates. DuPont Microcircuit Materials (DuPont MCM) says it has signed a deal with Eindhoven...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/DuPont-Joins-Holst-Centre-Printed-Electronics-Program_33574.html March 11, 2011
Lanxess has agreed to acquire Syngenta’s Material Protection business. Lanxess says the acquisition will make it one of the leading suppliers of biocides for construction materials...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Lanxess-to-Buy-Syngentas-Material-Protection-Business_33280.html March 11, 2011
Synthetic biology firm Amyris (Emeryville, CA) says it has entered into an agreement with Givaudan to develop a derivative of Amyris’s biobased farnesene that could be used as a...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/specialty_chemicals/Givaudan-Taps-Amyris-for-Biobased-Fragrance-Ingredients_33281.html |
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