Cytec Industries Inc.

The conference schedule for ICE USA includes workshops on web coating, handling and winding; keynotes by Thomas Blaige, Blaige & Company and Tony Carignano, Cytec Industries Inc.

With recent advances in waterborne energy curing resin technology, an elec
tron beam (EB) curing gravure printing process has been developed which allows elimination of VOC emissions and reduces energy consumption while providing outstanding aesthetics, chemical, physical, and functional properties.

WEST PATERSON, N.J.—Cytec Industries Inc. is increasing prices in North and South America on its CYMEL, MELMAC, BECKAMINE, and UFORMITE amino resins. The increases will take effect on all shipments on or after Nov. 1, 2007, or as contracts allow. These increases will apply as follows: $0.06/lb for conventional melamines and conventional ureas $0.012/lb for conventional benzoguanamines and high-solids HMMM $0.15/lb for high-solids glycolurils $0.16/lb for high-solids melamines $0.30/lb for high-solids benzoguanamines Cytec reports that all of the increases are necessary to offset the continued escalation in the costs of raw materials, labor, energy, and transportation.

WEST PATERSON, N.J.—Cytec Industries Inc. is increasing the prices of selected UV/EB curable specialty monomers, specialty oligomers, and photoinitiators in the Americas for orders shipped on or after Oct. 15, 2007. Prices will advance between 5 to 7 percent depending on the product family, and as contracts allow. The increase is necessitated by the continued escalation in the cost of raw materials, especially acrylic acid, acrylic esters and polyols, and related energy, packaging and transportation costs.

Coatings are somewhat unsung heroes in the package-printing world. They provide many important functions, yet most people don’t even know they’re there. These people don’t care either—except that if the coatings weren’t there, they might not like the label or package as much, might even complain about it, or worse yet, might not buy the product. Whoa, Nellie! “Houston, We’ve got a problem.” “Iceberg dead ahead!” Now, we’ve got somebody’s heart pumpin’. Coatings to the rescue No, coatings can’t help much when it comes to world calamities, but if the heart that’s “pumpin’” happens to be a product manager, now we’re playing in