The 2012 PLACE Program Committee is actively seeking technical presentations, panels, tutorials, roundtables, and case studies from the packaging and academic community.
The Performance Monomers business of the Dow Chemical Co. has announced a 10% increase in capacity for the production of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) at its Freeport, Texas, facility.
BASF recently announced it will invest in a world-scale production site for acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers (SAP) in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil.
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. recently announced it will expand production capacity for silanes at its manufacturing facilities in Sistersville, WV, and Termoli, Italy.
World demand for green packaging (encompassing recycled content, reusable and degradable packaging) is projected to rise 5.7% per year to $212 billion in 2015, according to a n ew study.
IDI Composites International recently announced that Larry Landis will head the development team for a new line of engineered structural composites (ESC).
PPG Industries’ Aerospace business has named Mark Cancilla global platform director for Coatings and Brent Wright global platform director for Transparencies, succeeding Cancilla.
The Supervisory Board of LANXESS AG recently appointed Axel C. Heitmann, Ph.D., chairman of the company’s Board of Management for an additional five years.
The roughly 109,000-sq-ft facility boosts the company’s production and technical support capability with room for new equipment, an expanded R&D laboratory, and an increase in sales and technical staff.
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