I ndustry News
BASF acquires Johnson Polymer
The acquisition of resins manufacturer
Johnson Polymer by BASF was closed
on July 1, 2006. The acquisition
includes Johnson Polymer’s production
sites in the U.S. and the Netherlands,
as well as technical centers and offices
in Asia Pacific. It provides BASF with
a range of water-based resins that
complements its existing resins portfolio and will strengthen the company’s
market presence, particularly in North
America. The former Johnson
Polymer business, which employs a
total staff of 430 worldwide, will
become part of BASF’s Performance
Chemicals division.
“This acquisition opens up new areas
for innovation in a profitable and fast-growing segment of our specialty business. We will now proceed to integrate
Johnson Polymer’s resins business
quickly into our existing performance
chemicals operations,” said BASF
board member Andreas Kreimeyer.
“Our team is looking forward to welcoming their new colleagues and working together to develop products and
technologies that will help to make our
customers more successful,” added
Patrick Prévost, president of BASF’s
Performance Chemicals division.
North Augusta, GA. This expansion
will significantly increase the capacity
of monomer production in the
Americas. The expansion is expected to
gradually come on stream during 2007.
CLARIANT HIGH PERFORMANCE
PIGMENTS JV GOES ON STREAM
Clariant and Hangzhou Baihe
Chemical Co. Ltd. have begun production of high performance pigments
through its new joint venture,
Hangzhou Baihe Clariant Pigments
Co. Ltd. The new facility in Hangzhou
southwest of Shanghai, China will produce red and yellow high performance
pigments for China and neighboring
Asian countries.
ments, has opened a new sales office
and distribution center in Mexico. The
office will operate as a separate entity
under the management of Ivan Diaz,
country manager and assisted by Edith
Aguilar, administrative and logistics
coordinator. The new contract information is Silberline Pigmentos, SRL de
CV, (52) 222-2252774; Fax: (52) 222-
2252775.
SILBERLINE EXPANDS
GLOBAL SERVICE
Silberline Manufacturing, a supplier of
special effect and performance pig-
COGNIS CONSOLIDATES EUROPEAN
MANUFACTURE OF DSX ADDITIVE
Cognis has consolidated the
European production of its DSX
range of rheology additives at its site
in Castellbisbal, near Barcelona,
Spain. The production and service
center at Castellbisbal will complement the existing production facilities
in the U.S. and mainly serve the
European market, where demand for
high-quality environmentally friend-
CYTEC EXPANDS PRODUCTION
OF UV CURING RESINS
Cytec Industries is expanding production of its Radcure epoxy and urethane
acrylates at the company’s Fengxian
site production facility near Shanghai,
China. The additional capacity should
shorten the supply chain process and
increase Cytec’s ability to respond to
customer application and technology
needs in the region. Current plans are
for the plant to come on stream during
the first half of 2008.
In addition, Cytec is nearing completion of the expansion of its production
facility for Radcure UV curing resins in
PRICING CHANGES
Celanese: July 1—5-10% increase for all
PVAc homopolymers, VAE co-polymer,
acrylic, vinyl-acrylic and styrene-acrylic
emulsions.
Cytec: July 16—$0.12/lb. increase for
Crylcoat powder coating resins in the
Americas.
Dow Biocides: Sept. 1—$0.10/lb increase
in North America, 10% increase for the rest of
the world for its entire glutaraldehyde product
portfolio.
Dow: July 1—$0.05/lb. increase in North
America, €90 MT increase in Europe, Middle
East and Africa for hydroxyethyl acrylate and
hydroxypropyl acrylate monomers.
Eastman: July 1—$0.05/lb increase for
Texanol ester alcohol and Optifilm enhancer
300 in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East
and Africa.
Eliokem: July 24—3-7% for Pliolite and
Plioway dry resins and Pliotec latices.
OM Group: July 24—up to 10% increase for
certain metal organic products.
Noveon: Aug.1—$0.03-$0.05/lb. increase for
waterborne coatings polymers in the Americas.
Sun Chemical Performance Pigments:
June 10—$0.40/lb. increase for phthalocyanine
blue dry color; $0.25/lb. increase for Phthalo
green dry color.
Reichhold: July 15—$0.04/lb. increase for
all emulsion coating products in North
America; July 24—$0.05/lb. increase for all
unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resins
in North America.
DISTRIBUTOR APPOINTMENTS
Hauthaway has appointed Dunleary, Inc. to
distribute its line of Hauthane waterborne
polyurethane dispersions in the southeastern U.S.
