Seegott has passed verification for all codes as a result of Scientific Applications International Corp.’s (SAIC) audit.

The KRATON™ Polymers Business has become the official owner of styrene butadiene styrene (SBS) production facilities in Wesseling, Germany.

Neville Chemical and Les Derives Resiniques & Terpeniques have agreed to evaluate a partnership involving their interests in the tackifier dispersion business for pressure sensitive adhesives.

Northwest Coatings has filed for a U.S. Patent on its new UV/EB-curable laminating adhesive technology.

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) hardware-based weathering Standards G 23, G 26 and G 53 were slated to be withdrawn by December 2000 and should be replaced with improved, performance-based Standards G 151 through G 155.

C.L. Hauthaway & Sons has appointed Dar-tech sales representative for the Hauthane line of waterborne polyurethane dispersions to the adhesives and coatings markets in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Western New York and Western Pennsylvania.

The Polyurethanes Business Unit of the American Plastics Council (APC) will now be known as the Alliance for the Polyurethanes Industry (API).

Mace Adhesives & Coatings received The Most Valued Partner Award by H.H. Brown.

Saiden Technologies is scheduled to begin construction of a new emulsion polymerization and multicapability compounding facility on January 1.

Bayer is acquiring the global polyols business of United States-based Lyondell Chemical for $2.45 billion in a move to strengthen its core polymers business in the long term.