Sartomer Americas has earned the Certified Biobased Product designation from the USDA for its entire Sarbio® line of specialty acrylates and methacrylates.

LORD Corp. announced that Hannah Kirby, senior quality engineer in Aerospace Production, has received the Rising Star Award from the Pennsylvania Commission for Women.

Henkel recently announced that it has received RobecoSAM’s Gold Class award.

Nordson Corp. recently announced the opening of a new 2,000-sq-m technical center in Shanghai.

Bayer MaterialScience recently announced it is increasing its production capacities in the Asia-Pacific region to meet the continued growth in demand there for raw materials for coatings and adhesives.

PPG Industries recently announced plans to invest more than $27 million in its San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico, coatings manufacturing facility.

Sea-Land Chemical Co. recently announced it has promoted Christy Henley to the position of sales team leader.

Evans Adhesive Corp. Ltd. recently announced the hiring of Aaron Garry as its new vice president for Sales and Marketing.

DELO^® Industrial Adhesives recently announced it has received the German Industry’s Innovation Award in the category of SMEs.

Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. recently announced it has narrowed the potential location for its new forest product facility in Brazil to three states.