Having concluded almost 50 years of providing tailor-made sealing solutions Sonderhoff, member of the Westhoff-Group, based in Cologne, Germany, has established a state-of-the-art process with the development of the FIPFG-technology.

As a replacement for HCFC-22 for pour-in-place blowing agent formulations for PU rigid foams French Arkema Group, Paris, offers its range of Transcend PU blends.

Monheim based specialty chemical company Cognis, has just presented the Sovermol range of natural-source, solvent-free polyols.

Swedish company Perstorp has introduced a new range of polycarbonate diols at the European Coatings Show 2007.

For their entire range of mould carriers, BBG GmbH & Co. KG from Mindelheim, Germany, offers rapid mould changing systems. These systems help to reduce equipment set-up time and staff assignment and to boost productivity.

The award was presented on 1 May in Washington D.C.

Chemtura Corporation has appointed new Vice President, Global Consumer Industry.

Basell, one of the global leaders in polyolefins, based in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, and Lyondell Chemical Company, Houston, Texas, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which Basell will acquire Lyondell’s outstanding common shares for USD 48 per common share in an all cash transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately USD 19 billion, including the assumption of debt.

Chemtura Corp. said it will increase prices on most urethane prepolymers and curatives by 10 cents a pound on Aug. 1.

On 12 July Huntsman Corporation announced that it has terminated the merger agreement with Basell dated June 26, 2007 and has agreed to a definitive merger agreement with Hexion, an Apollo Management, L.P. portfolio company.