While solar demand will experience strong growth
this year,
these events have had a strong influence on which companies will lead
the
industry in 2010 and beyond, and which will face low profit margins and
possible consolidation.
The ADC consists of a group of state-of-the-art laboratories serving as a
technical center of excellence for Chemtura businesses in the
Asia-Pacific region.
IMCD Group named distribution partner for its wollastonite range into the ceramics,
adhesives and sealants, coatings, plastics, construction, and friction
markets.
In May of 1940, the
process
allowing for the industrial production of silicones was developed by a
research
chemist at General Electric Company (GE) Research Laboratory.
The custom-built plant will
manufacture sealants and adhesives for the burgeoning insulating glass
(IG),
solar photovoltaic, structural glazing, and transportation markets in
the Far East.
A new consumer watchdog will police lenders who offer impossible-to-resist subprime mortgages and then jack up the interest rates to impossible-to-pay levels.