Halliburton Energy Services has entered into exclusive negotiations with United Minerals & Properties by signing a Letter of Intent to sell Cimbar Performance Minerals, its barium sulfate operation, for an undisclosed sum.
The Grinding and Dispersing Division of Netzsch Inc. has announced the appointment of Mark Seale to the position of South Central Regional Sales Manager.
Dr. Robert Zellerhoff, head of the Business Group Resins/HKM at Rutgers Chemicals AG and director of the German-Japanese joint venture Rutgers Kureha Solvents GmbH, will retire by November 30, 2003, citing health concerns.
National Starch and Chemical Co. has announced the sale of its Permabond International cyanoacrylate and anaerobic adhesive product lines to the Grossi Family, who own the company now known as Permabond LLC.
Asymtek has added a new distributor, SmartTec (smart technology products and solutions), to represent the company's line of automated fluid dispensing systems in Germany and Austria.
Effective Nov. 1, or as contract terms allow, Degussa increased prices for all grades of functional silanes in North America by 4 percent, not to exceed current list prices.
In a letter to Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr. Ulrich Lehner, president and CEO of the Henkel Group, declared the company's participation in the UN's Global Compact initiative.
Simrit recently received United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Class VI certification on three materials for pharmaceutical, medical and bio-tech applications.