KEMIRA SPECIALTY changes company name back to previously held TRI-K INDUSTRIES, INC.
Northvale, NJ, December 3, 2008 – Effective December 10, 2008, Kemira Specialty, Inc will revert to its previously held name, TRI-K Industries, Inc. The company is a leading distributor of ingredients to the cosmetics and personal care industry headquartered in New Jersey, with additional operations in New Hampshire.
[Source: Communication] [December 2008] More
New product names, new-look packaging, constant product quality
We‘ve changed - Kemira Pigments and Sachtleben Chemie are now simply Sachtleben. We trade on a unified basis under a global trademark: Sachtleben. This trademark stands for the quality, innovation and reliability of our inorganic particles, with their functional properties.
[Source: Communication] [December 2008] More
Sachtleben announces price increases for barium hydroxide
(Duisburg, November 18, 2008) Sachtleben has today announced an increase in its prices for barium hydroxide mono- and octahydrate products. This price adjustment partially offsets continuing cost increases for raw materials. Sachtleben is raising prices worldwide for all BaOH grades by 10% with effect from January 1, 2009.
[Source: Communication] [November 2008] More
Sachtleben launches high security marking concept
Worldwide losses caused by product piracy are estimated at some 300 billion Euro annually and rising. To counteract this creeping trend, and provide permanent and reliable protection for intellectual property, Sachtleben can now supply an innovative marking concept for materials (such as polymers, for example) that is irremovable, offers a high level of anti-copying security, and can be detected only using special analytical procedures. These particles are suitable for use at the highest (forensic) security level.
[Source: Communication] [November 2008] More
Sachtleben announces price increase for titanium dioxide
(Duisburg, September 19th 2008) Sachtleben announced today price increases for all grades of titanium dioxide products effective October 1, 2008. This price adjustment will partially balance the ongoing cost increases of raw materials, energy and transport. The increase applies to all titanium dioxide products from Duisburg, Germany and Pori, Finland
[Source: Communication] [September 2008] More
Rockwood and Kemira Close TiO2 Joint Venture
Princeton, NJ, Sept. 1, 2008 -Rockwood, Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC) and Kemira Oyj (OMX: KRA1V) today announced the completion of the formation of their previously announced joint venture, creating one of the world’s leading producers of specialty titanium dioxide pigments.
[Source: Communication] [September 2008] More
Unaccustomed perspectives
The Joint Venture between two major white-pigment producers, Sachtleben and Kemira, is giving rise to much curiosity and many questions on both sides. Now that, at the start of the Joint Venture, the organizational structure and perspectives for individual employees have been clarified, the question remains of how, and from what point of view, our partner sees us.
[Source: Communication] [September 2008] More
New route for Sachtleben Water Chemicals
The upcoming Joint Venture between Sachtleben and Finnish company Kemira Oyj's pigment division also has implications for Sachtleben's Water Chemistry Business Unit in Duisburg and Ibbenbüren (EKOKEMI), and for MIWAC, in Schwarzheide.
[Source: Communication] [July 2008] More
Sachtleben announces price increases for titanium dioxide and barium sulfate.
Sachtleben Chemie GmbH, of Duisburg, Germany, today announced that it is increasing its prices for pigmentary titanium dioxide grades (rutile and anatase types) and for all synthetic barium sulfate grades with effect from July 15, 2008. The move is intended to balance out at least partially the drastic recent increases in costs for raw materials, energy and transport.
[Source: Communication] [July 2008] More
The future looks blue..
... for Sachtleben's latest generation of rutile pigments for the plastics and plastics-processing industry. Sachtleben has achieved the breakthrough in developing, in the form of its organically and inorganically surface coated and micronized "HOMBITAN VP RXX-K" innovation, a rutile pigment with a pronounced bluish hue in these coloured applications.
[Source: Communication] [June 2008] More