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Editor's Pick
FedDev Ontario Invests $2 Million in Lorama Group Inc.
FedDev Ontario recently announced an investment of $2 million in Lorama Group Inc. to commercialize and scale up production of its adhesive products. Located in Mississauga, Ont., Lorama Group Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of colourants and additives in the paint and coatings sector. With this recent investment, the company will acquire advanced manufacturing equipment to produce its renewable, non-toxic bio-adhesive used in wood composite products. Read More |
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Industry News
Nouryon Hikes Dimethyl Ether Price
Nouryon recently announced that it will raise the price of dimethyl ether (DME) by 30 per cent to cover general inflation related to raw materials, energy, freight, and labour. DME, a chemically stable colourless propellant, blowing agent and solvent, is used in personal care products, paints, coatings and ink industry applications. The price increase will take effect on May 1, 2022 and will be applied to all markets and applications that Nouryon serves. Read More |
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Event News
Free Silicone Expo Hosted in Detroit
Silicone Expo USA will take place June 21 to 23 at Huntington Place in Detroit, Mich. Promoted as the world’s first free expo and conference for the silicone industry, more than 180 global exhibitors from manufacturing and extended supply chains—elastomers, resins, fluids and gels—will take over the trade show floor to mingle with an anticipated audience of more than 4,000 buyers and delegates. Read More |
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Webinars
Tune in to Carlisle’s Webinar Series
Carlisle Fluid Technologies is offering a series of webinars aimed at helping customers work more profitably. Applying the knowledge shared through these webinars will immediately be helpful for production environments. Application processes are constantly changing with new solutions, new tools, and better ideas. Keeping up with the latest information helps to continuously improve your applications and processes. Read More |
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Industry News
ECKART Releases a New Scratch-Resistant Additive
SynAdd, a new additive from ECKART, is reportedly easy to process, highly transparent, extremely colour-pure, and creates a wide range of possibilities for coatings and plastics manufacturers to optimise their products. It’s designed to improve technical properties such as weather and moisture resistance, as well as scratch resistance. And at the same time, it can also be used for optical effects. The powder is suitable for use in aqueous and solvent-based systems. Read More |
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Efficiency
Orion Aims for Net-Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050
Orion Engineered Carbons recently announced that it aspires to align its sustainability objectives with the Paris Climate Agreement (PCA) and strives to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. To make this aspiration a reality, Orion plans to launch a broad range of products using recycled materials and increase its footprint in the conductive additives space, such as lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other applications critical for the transition toward electric power by 2025. Read More |
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Acquisition
West Penetone Acquires AccuChem
West Penetone has announced its recent acquisition of AccuChem, an Alberta-based industrial cleaning chemicals manufacturer. Established in 1993, AccuChem Industrial Cleaning Chemicals specializes in a wide range of commercial applications and services for the carwash and transportation industry, the oil & gas sector, and various other industrial segments. AccuChem also carries water treatment products and programs for the heating and cooling needs of both large and small buildings. Read More |
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Product News
New Benchtop Spectrophotometer by BYK
Designed for the automotive, paint and plastic industries for quality control of colour, appearance and physical properties, BYK’s new color2view is a benchtop spectrophotometer that combines several different measurement methods. The color2view uses a circumferential illumination at 45-degree and zero-degree viewing to measure colour as you see it. Read More |
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HVOF Coating for Oil and Gas Industry
Extreme Coatings has announced the launch of a new internal diameter High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF) coating system for oil and gas and industrial components. This IDX coating system provides a high-performance tungsten carbide nano coating for diameters as small as 7.62 cm (three inches) at lengths of up to 2.43 meters (eight feet), and thicknesses of 0.0381 cm (0.015 inches). Read More |
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