California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) on May 6 issued a notice of public hearing for Proposed Amended Rule 1171 (Solvent Cleaning Operations). The district has also published the draft rule language and draft staff report on its website. Read More…
Perstorp and BRB, subsidiaries of PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG), have opened an innovation hub in Shanghai, China to boost technical support and accelerate growth in the Asian market. Read More…
Lamberti has acquired Covestro’s facility in East Providence, Rhode Island, marking a strategic expansion of its U.S. operations. The site will specialize in producing polyurethane dispersions (PUDs), including matte and ultra-matte polymers for CASE applications, industrial coatings, digital printing, and more. Read More…
INX International Ink Co. has completed its acquisition of Servicom New Zealand Limited and signed a definitive agreement to acquire Galaxy Inks & Coatings Australia Pty Ltd. The Galaxy transaction is expected to close by the end of the month, pending customary conditions. Read More…
PPG announced that it will invest $380 million to build a new aerospace coatings and sealants manufacturing facility in Shelby, N.C. Construction on the 62-acre site is set to commence in October 2025 and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027. Read More…
WEG has signed a contract to acquire the assets of Heresite Protective Coatings, a Wisconsin-based industrial coatings company, for $9.5 million, subject to typical closing adjustments. The acquisition will be reflected in WEG’s financials beginning May 2025. Read More…
ACA presented its 2025 CoatingsTech Best Paper Award to David Fairhurst, Ph.D., president of Colloid Consultants, Ltd. Fairhurst received the honor at the 2025 CoatingsTech Conference for his paper, “Low Field (LF)-NMR Relaxation – A Useful Technique for QC and to Determine the Equivalency of Materials for Coatings Formulations,” coauthored by Ravi Sharma, Ph.D., and principal research fellow at Mageleka Inc.; and Ralph Jan Wörheide, M.Eng., and president and founder of Metromation Inc. Read More…
AkzoNobel announced that it has partnered with IPG Photonics on applying laser technology for curing powder coatings. Read More…
Strategic Value Partners, LLC and its affiliates (together, "SVP") and Blantyre Capital Limited ("Blantyre") announced that SVP-managed funds and Blantyre-managed funds have acquired OQ Chemicals (OXEA), a global producer and merchant of oxo chemicals. As part of the acquisition, OQ Chemicals will reinstate its name to OXEA, reaffirming its heritage and longstanding presence in the global chemicals industry. Read More…
Impact Coatings and Smoltek Hydrogen have entered a collaboration to explore the potential integration of Smoltek Hydrogen’s carbon nanofiber (CNF) technology into the Impact Coatings INLINECOATER™ series of PVD systems. Read More…