BYK to Wind Down Production of Additives Containing PFAS
BYK Additives aims to replace per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with environmentally friendly alternatives and offer fluorine-free solutions by the end of 2025. Read More…
SCAQMD to Host Workshop on Proposed Amended Rule 1151 (Auto-Refinish) Aug. 30
California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is accepting written comments on the proposal through Sept. 13, 2024. The district intends to present the Proposed Amended Rule 1151 to the Governing Board at a public hearing on Nov. 1 (subject to change). Read More…
BASF Switching Portfolio to Bio-Based Ethyl Acrylate
BASF announced it is transitioning its (Meth)Acrylate portfolio to bio-based Ethyl Acrylate (EA) starting Q4 2024. The company says this shift supports its global sustainability efforts. Read More…
Henkel Invests in its Largest Indian Manufacturing Facility
Henkel Adhesives Technologies India Private Limited (Henkel India) announced the completion of Phase III of its LEED Gold certified manufacturing facility in Kurkumbh, near Pune, Maharashtra. The Kurkumbh site, launched in 2020, serves the demand of Indian industries for high-performance solutions in adhesives, sealants, and surface treatment products. Read More…
Arkema Opens Innovation Lab in Japan
Arkema announced the addition of a new technologies lab at its Arkema Kyoto Technical Center. According to the company, the new lab will strengthen its ability to innovate and address customer needs for ultraviolet-light-cured, light emitting diode, and electron-beam-cured (UV/LED/EB) curable resins and additives used for specialty coating and adhesive applications in advanced electronics, new energies, building efficiency, and e-mobility markets. Read More…
Azelis Expands its CASE Portfolio in Indonesia with allnex
Azelis has announced a new distribution agreement with allnex, a producer of specialty polymers used in industrial coating resins and additives. Azelis will distribute allnex’s additives for the coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers (CASE) segment and broaden their presence in the CASE segment in Indonesia. Read More…
Brenntag Acquires Monarch Chemicals
Brenntag has acquired Monarch Group Holdings Ltd, and its operating subsidiary Monarch Chemicals Ltd.— a distributor in the UK that supplies a range of industry sectors, including coatings, and product groups, such as Inorganic Chemicals, Citrates and Glycols. Read More…
ACA Seeks Nominations for 2025 Mattiello Lecture Award
ACA is seeking nominations for the 2025 Joseph J. Mattiello Lecture Award, to be given at its CoatingsTech Conference scheduled for April 28-30, 2025. Nominations should be received by Dec. 2, 2024. Read More…
ACA Comments on OSHA’s Proposed Emergency Response Standard
ACA’s comments to focused only on WEREs— Workplace Emergency Response Employers. OSHA has scheduled an informal hearing on its proposal for Nov. 12, 2024, to hear comments and testimony from the public. Read More…
BASF’s Automotive OEM Coatings China Operations to Procure 100% Renewable Electricity
BASF's Coatings division has renewed its agreement to procure 100% renewable electricity at its automotive OEM coatings manufacturing operations in Shanghai, China. Through a combination of Renewable Direct Power Purchase (R-DPP), International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-REC), and other measures, the company says it will continue to power its BASF Shanghai Coatings Minhang and Caojing sites, as well as the BASF Coatings' resin plant in Caojing, solely with green power. Read More…