This company, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has released a new silicone product, SILMERA™ PR-27.

A new Chinese language website from this company is reportedly designed and written specifically for the company’s growing Chinese customer base.

Arkema Inc. and Andes Chemical Corp. recently announced a strategic alliance that includes the distribution of a range of specialty chemicals for coatings throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and portions of South America.

Evonik Goldschmidt Corp. recently announced it will merge into parent company Evonik Corp. on January 1, 2014.

Arkema recently announced it has started its new 60,000 metric ton/year emulsions facility on its Changshu platform.

PPG Industries recently announced that Diane M. Kappas has been appointed vice president, Americas, for the Protective and Marine Coatings (PMC) business.

Worldwide construction of new housing units is expected to increase 3.3% per year to 60.9 million units in 2017.

Quarter-over-quarter increases are evident in nearly all sub-components measuring remodeling activity.

Akzo Nobel N.V. recently reported third quarter revenues of €3,778 million (~ $5,213 million), a decrease of 5%.

BASF Corp. recently announced it has named four distributors to represent the company’s diols and polyalcohols product lines offered to the CASE markets in North America.