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After facing a drop off in demand last year, titanium-dioxide (Ti[O.sub.2]) suppliers are hoping that better times lay ahead. A result of a weak worldwide economy, the 5- to G-percent [...]

LYNDHURST, N.J.--An important part of a global organization, and a largely independent U.S.-based supplier, Sika Corp. has a dual nature. The wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Swiss specialty chemical supplier [...]

IN 2002, the Goodyear Chemical SBU made strides in growing its Adhesives Materials business by implementing a significant reorganization that allowed the company to focus in on key areas. In [...]

ADHESIVE AND SEALANT use within the automobile industry, though already quite pervasive, is on the rise, according to industry estimates. As auto manufacturers continue look to suppliers to help meet [...]

A STRONG NEW-HOME construction market is reportedly buoying a sagging U.S. economy and driving growth in this important end-use sector for adhesives and sealants. Fueled by low lending rates, November [...]

AT $17 BILLION, the U.S. fastener market is robust, to say the least. While adhesives and sealants currently represent just 11 percent of this business, the growth potential for these [...]

TO IMPROVE the quality and lower the costs of producing millions of electrical wiring boxes and junction boxes Lamson & Sessions manufactures each year, the company retired an assembly process [...]

LAST JUNE, fashion-accessory designer DUCTI, Inc. approached Tyco Adhesives with an unusual request create a new kind of duct tape that the company could use to construct a line of [...]

IN 1982, AN UNSUSPECTING U.S. public was terrified by a string of deaths connected to cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. Claiming the lives of seven Chicago residents, this product-tampering scare had [...]

Anyone who's done it knows that repainting a white ceiling can be quite a chore, especially if you want to do it right. Discerning where an old coat of white [...]

Any packaging that you need a screw driver and hammer to open and dose isn't exactly customer-friendly, contends John Nottingham, co-president of Nottingham-Spirks Design Associates Inc., referring to the round [...]

The round, metal paint can has been a paint industry staple for more than 100 years, and while it has evolved over time, the basic design has stayed the same. [...]

WHEN THE AWARD-winning architectural firm of Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart & Stewart (SRSS) was designing the Mayfair Renaissance building, a 34-story high-rise residential tower in Atlanta's Midtown district, Dow Corning played [...]