German companies collaborate
to secure raw materials
The Federation of German Industry, BDI,
recently announced that twelve German
companies: Aurubis, BASF, Bayer, BMW,
Chemetall, Daimler, Evonik Industries,
Georgsmarienhütte Holding, Bosch, steel
holding Saar, Thyssen Krupp and Wacker
Chemie have formed a collaboration to
establish an alliance in order to secure the
supply of industrial raw materials for German industry.
“We are working together to build a
powerful organization, which aims to improve the security of Germany sustained
commodity,” said BDI vice president Ulrich Grillo.
The foundation phase is supported
free of charge from the Boston Consulting Group, Egon Zehnder, Lovells and
PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Alliance
aims to invest in resource projects in
order to improve the long-term supply of
industrial raw materials in German industry. It is open to other companies as
well. Priorities of the alliance’s foundation phase are raw material clarifying,
organizational and legal issues and the
establishment of corporate structures
BDI is not directly involved in the financing and operational work.
The managing director of the alliance
is Dierk Paskert, member of the board of
management of E.ON Energie AG, Munich, Germany. The BDI is developed
under the direction of Grillo, the concept
for the Alliance.
“The company’s focus will be on raw
materials for which there are strong supply
risks for German industry,” said Grillo.”The
alliance will address raw materials at an
early stage of the project and will explore
opportunities to create purchase and participation options for German companies.
In specific cases the raw material alliance
will also be active with the extraction and
processing of raw materials.”
BYK Additives and Instruments
opens laboratory in Dubai
BYK Additives & Instruments has
opened a new lab in Dubai, the commercial metropolis of the Arab Gulf
states and one of the fastest growing regions in the world.
With the lab opening in Dubai, BYK
Additives & Instruments has laid the
foundations for providing local support
for its Middle East customers in their
search for innovative solutions for the
paint and plastics industry.
Dr. Zakir Hussain Ansari is the head of
the new laboratory. With years of experience in the coatings industry he can now
attend directly on the spot to any technical questions that arise.
“It’s our aim to respond quickly to cus-
tomer inquiries and offer the best solu-
tions,” said Dr. Roland Peter, chairman of
the management board. “This laboratory
with its state-of-the-art equipment is tai-
lor-made for this.”
The new laboratory is accommodated
in Dubai’s ultramodern Biotechnology &
Research Park called Dubiotech.
Arkema Coating Resins raises
prices for latex products in
North America
Arkema Coating Resins will increase pricing on all latex products sold in North
America. Encor acrylic, styrene-acrylic,
styrene-butadiene and Neocar Acrylic latexes will increase by $0.05 to $0.07 per
wet pound. Encor vinyl-acrylic, vinyl ac-etate-ethylene and Neocar Latexes will increase by $0.02 to $0.03 per wet pound.
CVC Thermoset Specialties
expands distribution
agreement with IMCD
Germany
CVC Thermoset Specialties, an Emerald
Performance Materials Company, has expanded its distribution agreement with
IMCD Germany to include its Hypro Reactive Liquid Polymer (RLP) products. The
high-performance RLP product line is manufactured at the company’s ISO 9001:2008
certified operations at Akron, Ohio and
supplied globally through a network of distribution partners and agents. IMCD represents CVC’s full line of epoxy and RLP
products in the Netherlands, Belgium,
Spain, France and Switzerland. In Germany,
the company previously handled CVC’s
specialty epoxy materials only. In response
to growing demand in Germany for the
RLP technology, CVC has chosen to extend
the distribution agreement.
Anderson and Associates and
BRB Merge
BRB International BV and Anderson &
Associates LLC have combined their respective U.S. based silicone and silane
businesses and have formed a new joint
venture, AB Specialty Silicones LLC. The
company will be headquartered in
Waukegan, Illinois and will operate as a
stand-alone entity focusing on silicon
based products for the NAFTA region.
Previously the two companies operated
independently in a reciprocal vendor-client relationship where product lines
and target markets of each rarely overlapped, AB Specialty Silicones will offer a
more diverse and expanded product line
suitable for a broader range of industries.
This synergy will solidify an opportunity
for AB Specialty Silicones to gain a greater
market share in North America. AB Specialty Silicones will capitalize on each of
the former companies’ strengths to optimally address the needs of the NAFTA silicone market place.
Lonza Microbial Control
increases price for IPBC-based
biocide formulations
Lonza Microbial Control has announced
that, due to dramatic price increases of the
key raw material iodine, they will be implementing a global 10-40% price increase, depending on the formulation, for
Omacide TM biocide products, based on
3-Iodo-2- propynyl-n-butylcarbamate
(IPBC). These products are typically used
in metalworking fluids and coatings.
