I ndustry News
BASF increases capacity for amines
BASF will double its manufacturing
capacity for certain alkyl-etho-nalamines (AEOA) by mid-2009. This
expansion is the company’s response to
increases in its customers’ demand for
these products. BASF manufactures its
range of AEOA specialties at the integrated Verbund site in Ludwigshfen,
Germany, by means of a flexible, fully
backward-integrated multi-product
facility.
AEOA, such as ethylethanolamines,
propylethanolamines and butyl-ethanolamines, are used in a wide
array of applications, such as in coatings and lubricants. AEOA belong to
the alkylalkanolamine category that
BASF now makes at its sites in
Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Geismar,
PRICING CHANGES
BASF: May 5—$0.06/dry lb. increase for
all Butofan medium solids styrene-butadiene
latex products and Styrofan and Styronal
styrene-butadiene latex products in U.S. and
Canada.
Ciba: Effective immediately—5-20%
increase for its pigment and additive product
ranges for coatings applications.
Cytec: April 15—5-10% increase for
UV/EB curable monomers, oligomers and
photoinitiators and Vancryl acrylic resins in
the Americas; May 1—$0.10/lb. increase for
its Cymel, Melmac, Beckamine and Uformite
amino resins and $0.12/lb. increase for its
Phenodur phenolic resins in North and
South America.
Dow Biocides: May 19—5% increase for
Fuelsaver antimicrobial agent; 9% increase
for Amical antimicrobial; and 10% increase
for Antimicrobial 7287 and 8536, Dowicil 75
preservative, Dowicil QK- 20 antimicrobial,
Canguard 64 preservative and Tris Nitro
antimicrobial.
Eliokem: April 21—$0.04/lb. increase for
LA, U.S., with a total annual capacity
of 70,000 metric tons.
“As one of the globally leading amine
manufacturers, we are expanding our
production capacity in response to our
customers’ growing demand for specific
AEOAs,” said Stefan Blank, head of the
regional amines business unit within
BASF’s intermediates division. “We are
pleased to see that this increase in
demand is driven mainly by innovations that we have developed in cooperation with our customers.”
Examples of this include the
development of a new AEOA for
high-grade emulsion paints and new
options to use products from the
existing AEOA portfolio in certain
industrial applications.
Pliotec latex, $0.10/lb. increase for Pliolite
resins and $0.12/lb. increase for Plioway
resins in North America.
Rohm and Haas Paint and Coatings
Materials: April 1—$0.04/lb. increase for
emulsion polymers and additives and $0.05-
$0.08/lb. increase for solventborne poly-
mers in North America.
DISTRIBUTOR AGREEMENTS
Clariant has named four new distributors to
handle various pigment and additive products in
North America. P. T. Hutchins Company has been
selected as the U.S. distributor of its comprehensive range of pigment and additive products;
Reliant Aluminum Products will be the exclusive
distributor for its aluminum anodizing products
in the U.S. and Northern Technical Solutions will
be the distributor for Canada; Chemroy Canada is
the distributor of its pigment and additive product
lines in Canada.
Micro Powders has appointed Archway Sales
as its exclusive distributor for its product line of
high-performance wax additives in OH, MI, western PA, KY, western NY, southern IN and WV.
CYTEC INCREASES CAPACITY FOR
RESYDROL WATERBORNE ALKYDS
Cytec Industries announced plans to
increase capacity for Resydrol water-based alkyds at the company’s
Wallingford,CT production facility.
The new capacity will increase Cytec’s
ability to respond to customer needs in
North America. Current plans are for
the new capacity to come onstream
during the second quarter 2009
DOW INAUGURATES NEW
FORMULATION LAB IN SPAIN
Dow recently inaugurated a new formulation and prototyping development laboratory in Ribaforada,
Spain. The lab, which is part of the
existing Dow Polyurethane Systems
House facility at the site, will focus
on the development of differentiated
systems formulations for customers
throughout Southern Europe and
North Africa.
BASF EXPANDS PORTFOLIO
OF POLYMER DISPERSIONS
BASF has expanded its portfolio of
polymer dispersions for construction
chemicals with the acquisition of
BCDRohstoffe für Bauchemie
Handels GmbH. These polymer dispersions are primarily used for
cement-based coating systems and are
marketed under the Vinagen and
Vinapor brands.
IN BRIEF
Solutia Inc. presented Dowd and
Guild Inc. with its Distributor of the
Year award...Dover Corp. has established a new Pump Solutions
Group...Dow Biocides acquired the
IPBC molecule marketing and registration assets of Sostram Corp.,
which are marketed under the
Protram trademark. CW
