I ndustry News
Rohm and Haas to build plant in Vietnam
Rohm and Haas Company has
announced plans to build an acrylic
emulsion facility in Nhon Trach city,
within the Dong Nai province of
Vietnam. The company will spend
approximately $10 million for this
facility, which will serve the needs of
the paint and coatings market.
Scheduled to be completed by the middle of 2009, the new plant will join a
network of 12 plants across the Asia-Pacific region, part of a system of 34
plants worldwide.
“This is a great investment for Rohm
and Haas, one that has significant
strategic benefits,” said Bruce
Hoechner, vice president and Asia-Pacific regional director for the $2 billion paints and coatings materials
business. “We have been importing
products into the Vietnamese market
PRICING CHANGES
Cook Composites and Polymers: July
1—5-12% increase for all coatings resins
products.
Ciba: Effective immediately—up to 20%
increase for all product ranges.
Cray Valley: June 1—$0.07/lb. increase
for all grades of Norsolene resins and
$0.08/lb. increase for all grades of Wingtack
resins sold in the Americas.
Cytec: June 23—10-20% increase for
monomers, 4-20% for oligomers and 6-10%
increase for Vancryl acrylic resin in the
Americas.
Dow Chemical: June 1—up to 20%
increase on all of its products.
Dow Epoxy: June 16—4-15% increase for
metal organic products.
DuPont Titanium Technologies: June
15—$0.05/lb. for all titanium dioxide
grades in North America.
Dura Chemicals: June 16—4-15%
increase for metal organic products.
for more than 12 years, trying to keep
up with demand by bringing in products from operations in China and
Thailand. However, demand continues
to grow, and is now expected to grow at
15% per year for the next ten years.”
LANXESS IMPROVES TEXAS
MANUFACTURING PLANT
Lanxess Corp. has enacted a number of
initiatives to improve waste and energy conservation at its Orange, TX manufacturing plant. One initiative is to
recycle solvent from two different
waste streams at the Orange plant.
The waste will be shipped to a company that will distill, separate and use
the materials as an additive for indus-trial-grade gasoline and diesel. The
project, scheduled to begin this summer, has the potential to reduce waste
Eastman: June 1—$0.04/lb. increase for
Eastman EEP, Eastman N-butyl propionate
and Eastman N-propyl propionate.
Evonik: July 1—8% increase for Vestagon
PUR powder coatings crosslinkers and
Vestagon EP-R 4030 in NAFTA.
International Specialty Products: June
15—5-10% increase for polymers, vinyl
monomers, biocides, emoillents, emulsi-
fiers, preservatives, encapsulates and
actives in Latin America.
Reichhold: July 1—at least $0.06/lb.
increase on all solvent-based, water-based
and water reducible products
Sartomer: July 1—6-12% increase for
acrylate and methacrylate monomers and
oligomers in the Americas.
Tronox: July 1—up to 8% increase for all
Tronox titanium dioxide grades.
Wacker Polymers: June 15—$0.05/wet
lb. increase for vinyl acetate ethylene
copolymer and vinyl acetate vinyl chloride
copolymer dispersions sold in the Americas.
by two million pounds and would
reduce the plant’s Annual Toxics
Release Inventory (TRI) by 52%.
“We have made waste conservation a
plant-wide priority, with everyone from
top to bottom made aware of the great
things we are hoping to accomplish,”
said Cliff Wenzel, environmental
superintendent, Orange site. “Lanxess
understands the importance of being a
socially responsible corporate citizen.”
CPS COLOR OPENS
NEW U.S. FACILITY
CPS Color Equipment has opened a
new center in Concord, NC. Called
America’s Center, the 36,000 sq. ft.
facility has the capacity to produce
more than 4,000 dispensers and shakers per year. The center includes 42
permanent staff members and 22 contractors working in sales, marketing,
administration, service and production. It has been designed to allow for
future expansion as the business develops. CPS Color manufactures automatic tinting dispensers, related software,
along with mixing equipment and color
merchandising collateral.
IN BRIEF
DSM Powder Coating Resins has
opened a new R&D facility in
China...Cray Valley has implemented
sales control on its Norsolene A series
and S series hydrocarbon resins manufactured in its Channelview, TX facili-ty...Dow has declared force majeure for
several ethyleneamine products at its
St. Charles Operations in Taft,
LA...Imerys has idled specific calcined
kaolin capacity at its Dry Branch, GA
operations...Unipex Group has completed the acquisition of the active
ingredients and specialty chemicals
division of Atrium Innovations Inc. CW
