Akzo Nobel has just purchased a 50% stake in Mexico’s Industrial de Acabados (INDA). Industrial de Acabados are Mexico’s leading powder coatings producer.
The joint venture will manufacture and market powd...
Nanolayers have just closed their round of seed financing. While details were not released, investors included Millenium Materials Technology Fund, Intel Capital and Summit Technology.
Nanolayers are an innovative org...
Ferro have just completed the sale of their powder coatings businesses. The businesses with sales of $175 million in 2001, were divested for approximately $160 million.
The sale of the businesses consisted of two tran...
Clariant today announced the sale of its European emulsions business and its global emulsion powders businesses to Celanese AG (Germany) for a total of CHF 213.5 million.
The sale includes manufacturing operations in ...
It was announced today that Orica Ltd of Australia had acquired the Fernz Specialty Chemicals business from Nufarm Ltd for the sum of A$60 million.
The acquisition will allow Orica to increase its chemicals distributi...
GE Specialty Materials has entered into an agreement to purchase Advanced Ceramics Corporation and Advanced Ceramics International Corporation. The deal is set to close later this year and terms were not disclosed.
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AK Steel and International Steel Group (ISG) have formed a partnership. Under the agreement AK Steel have acquired 60% of a flat-rolled steel electrogalvanising plant in Ohio.
The facility which will be operated by IS...
Ferro Corp. have just signed a definitive agreement to sell their powder coatings business for $160 million. The divestiture will consist of two transactions which will see Akzo Nobel acquire operations in the Americas a...
Following a directive issued by China’s State Administration of Quality Supervision (November 20, 2001), China has officially banned the production and sale of all paints and coatings containing more than 500 parts...
Rolltronics Corporation have just announced that they intend to develop a new type of data storage technology. The new memory format will be based on nano-scale thin films, with data being stored in molecule-sized cylind...