Business and Industrial News Items from April 21, 2011

Bayer MaterialScience AG is raising the selling prices for all products of its polyurethane segment in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region by EUR 0.30 per kilogram, effective May 1, 2011. Substantially higher raw material and utilities costs are... ...

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of information and analysis, today announced it has acquired ODS-Petrodata, a premier provider of data, information and market intelligence to the offshore energy industry. “The acquisition of ODS-Petrodata... ...

LANXESS is further expanding its capacities to produce solution styrene butadiene (SSBR) and neodymium polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) rubbers in order to meet growing global demand for high-performance, environmentally friendly ‘green tires’. An additional 20,000... ...

April 18, 2011Vantem Composite Technologies, LLC, a privately held composite building materials company, has acquired EH Systems – one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). EH Systems had been producing SIPs for a... ...