Hernon Manufacturing recently announced that Harry Arnon, president and CEO, was named the 2013 District, State, and Regional Exporter of the Year.

Emerald Specialties has appointed SiWax Group the exclusive distributor for its line of Carnapol™ synthetic waxes in Europe.

Worldwide construction of new housing units is expected to increase 3.3% per year to 60.9 million units in 2017.

ABI Research reports that 438 million handsets and 244 million smartphones shipped during the third quarter of 2013.

Quarter-over-quarter increases are evident in nearly all sub-components measuring remodeling activity.

Sika recently announced that its net sales for the first nine months of 2013 were CHF 3,807.7 million (~ $4,174 million).

Huntsman Corp. recently announced third quarter revenues of $2,842 million. Net income was $64 million.

3M recently reported third quarter sales of $7.9 billion, an increase of 5.6% compared to the same period last year.

Atlas Material Testing Technology recently announced it has entered into an alliance with Pearl Laboratories.

ChemPoint Inc., a Univar company, recently announced the launch of its new brand identity.