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VOLUME XXI

September 14, 2023

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The Sherwin-Williams Company is excited to announce we have completed the acquisition of Dur-A-Flex, Inc. effective July 1, 2022.

Through the acquisition, we bring two great floor coating companies together to support and help grow your business.

Dur-A-Flex brings more than 55 years of resinous flooring expertise with industry-leading technology – including its Poly-Crete® cementitious urethane concrete coatings, Accelera® polyurea performance topcoats, and fast-cure methyl methacrylate (MMA) systems – supported by a relentless focus on training and execution excellence.

We are very excited and confident that the combination of Sherwin-Williams and Dur-A-Flex will allow us to provide additional value and a stronger level of service as your go-to partner in resinous flooring. Here are just a few benefits our customers will experience as we integrate the two teams:

  • Relentless focus on making our customers successful and accelerating their growth
  • Enhanced resinous product portfolio unrivalled in the industry
  • Formidable specification position supported by a dedicated spec-driving project development team
  • An exceptional mix of industry subject matter expertise, and dedicated R&D and sales teams
  • Sherwin-Williams’ unmatched distribution platform
  • Integrated lead generation capabilities to drive additional business growth for our customers
  • A culture of product innovation to delivers high-performing flooring solutions to create efficiencies in our customers’ operations

For more information about both organizations, click on the links below:

Sherwin-Williams High Performance Flooring
Dur-A-Flex

https://pages.s-w.com/na-us-en-resin-flooring-acquisition.html

The Sherwin-Williams Company is excited to announce we have completed the acquisition of Dur-A-Flex, Inc. effective July 1, 2022.

Through the acquisition, we bring two great floor coating companies together to support and help grow your business.

Dur-A-Flex brings more than 55 years of resinous flooring expertise with industry-leading technology – including its Poly-Crete® cementitious urethane concrete coatings, Accelera® polyurea performance topcoats, and fast-cure methyl methacrylate (MMA) systems – supported by a relentless focus on training and execution excellence.

We are very excited and confident that the combination of Sherwin-Williams and Dur-A-Flex will allow us to provide additional value and a stronger level of service as your go-to partner in resinous flooring. Here are just a few benefits our customers will experience as we integrate the two teams:

  • Relentless focus on making our customers successful and accelerating their growth
  • Enhanced resinous product portfolio unrivalled in the industry
  • Formidable specification position supported by a dedicated spec-driving project development team
  • An exceptional mix of industry subject matter expertise, and dedicated R&D and sales teams
  • Sherwin-Williams’ unmatched distribution platform
  • Integrated lead generation capabilities to drive additional business growth for our customers
  • A culture of product innovation to delivers high-performing flooring solutions to create efficiencies in our customers’ operations

For more information about both organizations, click on the links below:

Sherwin-Williams High Performance Flooring
Dur-A-Flex

https://pages.s-w.com/na-us-en-resin-flooring-acquisition.html

BASF expands capacity for key specialty amines in North America

  • Focus on polyetheramines and tertiary amines
  • Increase of production capacities at Geismar site on-stream in mid-2023
  • BASF aims to reliably support customers in North America

FLORHAM PARK, NJ, June 28, 2022 – BASF will increase the production capacity for key specialty amines manufactured at its Geismar, Louisiana site. After the completed production capacity expansion of a flexible world-scale production asset by mid-2023, BASF will be able to produce more of its key polyetheramines and tertiary amines marketed under the Baxxodur® and LupragenTM brands. These assets in North America will complement a global network of specialty amines production plants including those at Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and in Nanjing, China.

“This investment underlines our commitment to continuously support the growth of our customers with high-quality specialty amines,” said Kevin Anderson, Vice President, Business Management Amines, Acetylenics and Carbonyl Derivatives, Chemical Intermediates, North America for BASF. “The additional capacity in Geismar will allow us to respond quickly and reliably to increasing market demand.”

BASF’s Baxxodur portfolio is utilized by customers as highly efficient curing agents and chain extenders in epoxy and polyurea applications for the wind, electrical, composites, adhesives and flooring industries. The usage of Baxxodur products allows customers to achieve a wide range of benefits in their formulation, including curing time, hardness, flexibility, peel strength, chemical and temperature resistance.

BASF’s Lupragen products are highly efficient amine catalysts for Polyurethanes (PU). Those catalysts are typically tertiary amines, which are required to facilitate the reaction of the main components – isocyanate and polyol. Depending on the choice of catalyst, the polyurethane forming process can be controlled to enhance the gelling or blowing reaction. BASF’s Lupragen portfolio includes several low-VOC catalysts which offer support to address the increasing target of sustainable emission reductions.

With about 300 different amines, BASF has one of the world’s most diverse portfolio of chemical intermediates. Along with alkyl-, alkanol- and alkoxyalkylamines, BASF offers heterocyclic and aromatic as well as specialty amines. The range is completed by an expanding portfolio of chiral amines of high optical and chemical purity. The versatile products prove themselves mainly to manufacture process chemicals, pharmaceuticals and crop protection products, as well as cosmetic products and detergents. They also serve to produce coatings, special plastics, composites and special fibers.

Baxxodur® andLupragenTM are trademarks of BASF SE.

https://www.basf.com/us/en/media/news-releases/2022/06/basf-expands-capacity-for-key-specialty-amines-in-north-america.html

BASF expands capacity for key specialty amines in North America

  • Focus on polyetheramines and tertiary amines
  • Increase of production capacities at Geismar site on-stream in mid-2023
  • BASF aims to reliably support customers in North America

FLORHAM PARK, NJ, June 28, 2022 – BASF will increase the production capacity for key specialty amines manufactured at its Geismar, Louisiana site. After the completed production capacity expansion of a flexible world-scale production asset by mid-2023, BASF will be able to produce more of its key polyetheramines and tertiary amines marketed under the Baxxodur® and LupragenTM brands. These assets in North America will complement a global network of specialty amines production plants including those at Verbund sites in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and in Nanjing, China.

“This investment underlines our commitment to continuously support the growth of our customers with high-quality specialty amines,” said Kevin Anderson, Vice President, Business Management Amines, Acetylenics and Carbonyl Derivatives, Chemical Intermediates, North America for BASF. “The additional capacity in Geismar will allow us to respond quickly and reliably to increasing market demand.”

BASF’s Baxxodur portfolio is utilized by customers as highly efficient curing agents and chain extenders in epoxy and polyurea applications for the wind, electrical, composites, adhesives and flooring industries. The usage of Baxxodur products allows customers to achieve a wide range of benefits in their formulation, including curing time, hardness, flexibility, peel strength, chemical and temperature resistance.

BASF’s Lupragen products are highly efficient amine catalysts for Polyurethanes (PU). Those catalysts are typically tertiary amines, which are required to facilitate the reaction of the main components – isocyanate and polyol. Depending on the choice of catalyst, the polyurethane forming process can be controlled to enhance the gelling or blowing reaction. BASF’s Lupragen portfolio includes several low-VOC catalysts which offer support to address the increasing target of sustainable emission reductions.

With about 300 different amines, BASF has one of the world’s most diverse portfolio of chemical intermediates. Along with alkyl-, alkanol- and alkoxyalkylamines, BASF offers heterocyclic and aromatic as well as specialty amines. The range is completed by an expanding portfolio of chiral amines of high optical and chemical purity. The versatile products prove themselves mainly to manufacture process chemicals, pharmaceuticals and crop protection products, as well as cosmetic products and detergents. They also serve to produce coatings, special plastics, composites and special fibers.

Baxxodur® andLupragenTM are trademarks of BASF SE.

https://www.basf.com/us/en/media/news-releases/2022/06/basf-expands-capacity-for-key-specialty-amines-in-north-america.html

CMA issues its Phase I decision with respect to the divestment by Recticel of its Engineered Foams business line to Carpenter

Regulated information, Brussels, 05/07/2022 — 08:30 CET, 05.07.2022

Recticel announces that on 4 July 2022 the UK Competition and Markets Authority (the “CMA”) has issued its Phase I decision with respect to the divestment by Recticel of its Engineered Foams business line to Carpenter (the “Transaction”) and has found that the Transaction would raise competition concerns in the UK market.

The CMA indicated that the Transaction would remove a close competitor of Carpenter’s, with Recticel and Carpenter representing 2 of just 3 foam producers with plants in the UK. The affected UK Recticel Engineered Foams businesses represent 8.7% of the 2021 turnover of the Recticel Engineered Foams business.

Carpenter now has until 11 July 2022 to submit remedy proposals to address the CMA’s competition concerns. The CMA then has a further 5 working days to consider whether to accept any remedy offer made by Carpenter instead of referring the case for an in-depth Phase 2 investigation.

Recticel will make further announcements in this respect in due course.

https://www.recticel.com/cma-issues-its-phase-i-decision-respect-divestment-recticel-its-engineered-foams-business-line.html