A fire gutted a 9,000-sq-ft building at the Canadian head office and manufacturing and distribution center of the Henry Co., a manufacturer of commercial and residential foundation coatings, roofing products, caulks, adhesives, driveway sealers, and other building products marketed under the Building Envelope Systems® trademark.

Berry Plastics Group Inc. has selected Ecova, an energy and sustainability management company, to provide services that will assist in reducing its waste generation and consumption of electricity, natural gas, and water.

Below are the year’s most-viewed feature articles on the ASI website (posted and viewed from 1/1/15 to date).

Below are the year’s most-viewed news stories on the ASI website (posted and viewed from 1/1/15 to date).

Below are the year’s most-viewed market trends stories on the ASI website (posted and viewed from 1/1/15 to date).

New products items focused on finished adhesives were once again popular with readers.

Like the billions of bits of data buzzing through your computer and smartphone at this moment, technology today is moving faster than ever before.

Success cannot happen without innovation. With this in mind, we developed the ASI Readers’ Choice Award as a way to honor the industry’s hard work and ingenuity.

Customizing adhesive formulas allows customer needs to drive innovation. As the number of adhesive-using industries grows, the variety of uses for hot-melt solutions is expanding to the point where there is not a one-size-fits-all formula for any industry.

The U.S. is the world’s largest specialty chemicals market, estimated at $208 billion. As a subsector of this market, the coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE) markets accounted for over half, or $107 billion, in 2014.