Coatings World - April 2009

Industry News

the key raw material and the infrastructure, and Panchem International Trading and Industrial Company, that will provide the logistic services. Clarant will contribute the manufacturing know-how and handle the sales. The new phosphorus pentoxide plant is scheduled to go on stream in the first quarter 2010.

IN BRIEF

Cytec Industries has announced it will be moving its production of monomers from its plant in Pampa, TX to its multi-functional monomers and oligomers plant in North Augusta, SC...Univar’s Environmental Management System covering its Middlesbrough and Billingham sites is in the UK has been awarded ISO 14001 certification.

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PRICING CHANGES

BASF: April 1–$0.05/lb. increase for Normal Butanol, Isobutanol, 2-Ethylhexanol, 2-Propyl Heptanol, pentanol mix and pentanol mix derivatives (pentyl acetate and Iso pentanol blend) in North America.

Dow: April 1–$110/MT increase in Middle East/Afica, Latine America and Pacific and €85/MT in Europe for glacial acrylic acid, butyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, methyl acrylate and 2- ethylhexyl acrylate; €50-€70/MT increase for glycol ethers in Europe.

Oxea: April 1–$0.05/lb. increase in U.S., Canada and Mexico and $110/MT increase in South and Central America and Asia, Africa and Middle East for i/n butanol, i/n butyl acetate, n propanol and n propyl acetate.

DISTRIBUTOR APPOINTMENTS

BASF has appointed ChemPoint.com as its exclusive distributor of acrylic monomers in Canaa for les-than-truckload quantities. DuPont Titanium Technologies has appointed Dar-Tech, Inc. as its Midwest regioin regional distributor for its Ti-Pure titanium dioxide product line.

Rohm and Haas has appointed Palmer Holland as its distributor of its Paraloid resns in CT, DE, Washington DC, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NY, ND, OH, PA, RI, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI and WV. Unimin has appointed Dar- Tech, Inc. as distributor of it Minex nepheline syenite, Imsil microcrystalline silica and Snobrite kaolin clay in the OH, western PA and western upstate NY area.