Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, is bringing a range of innovative paint and coatings products to the American Coatings Show 2024, the leading North American coatings industry event. Clariant’s technical experts will be presenting industry-leading solutions that minimize environmental footprints and maximize product performance, while meeting or surpassing the latest regulatory requirements. “Clariant is delighted to share our high-performance, eco-friendly solutions with our customers in the paint and coatings industry,” commented Sebastian Prock, Head of Marketing & Application Development, Industrial Applications, Business Unit Care Chemicals. “These include the ClariCoat digital platform and our portfolio of wetting and dispersing agents to help formulators find the perfect match for their specific requirements and to extend the open time of water-based acrylic and polyurethane paints.” The ClariCoat digital platform ...

Milliken & Company is moving boldly to address anticipated market needs by expanding the facilities and capacity it acquired last March via its purchase of Germany’s Zebra-chem GmbH. Zebra-chem is a specialty compounder and chemicals company that makes additive and blowing agent concentrates for polyolefins, PVC and engineering thermoplastics.The expansion will enable Milliken to boost production capacity for the acquired Bad Bentheim plant by 60 percent by year’s end. Milliken plans to install new manufacturing equipment and hire additional employees at the plant, which will be renamed Birch I. It also built a new warehouse, called Birch II, nearby.  Milliken has been a trailblazer of sustainability for more than a century, and the company’s legacy of naming locations after trees is a tribute to that core company value.“We are seeing very strong demand from several end markets where these products are adding value, and our customer bas...