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“Jugend gründet” nationwide final on June 24 and 25, 2019, at the Porsche Training Center in Stuttgart

Under the new brand name RHEOBYK, the specialty chemicals company from Wesel has grouped together around 40 organic products from its wide-ranging rheology portfolio for the start of the European Coatings Show (ECS) in Nuremberg.

Two new BYK additives, which have been developed primarily for the printing inks and inkjet inks segment, have won a Ringier Technology Innovation Award this May, one of the most prestigious industry awards in China.

BYK is expanding its presence in Asia through a significant investment in China

Sales increase by 3 percent to €2,307 million

The proportion of aqueous formulations used in the coatings industry has been steadily increasing for over thirty years.

BYK-Gardner - worldwide partner of the automotive, paint and plastic industries for quality control of color, appearance and physical properties - is announcing the next generation of their data analysis software smart-chart.

On November 7/ 8, 2018 BYK-Gardner known for innovative QC solutions for color, appearance

and physical properties conducted its 9th US User Meeting in Dearborn, MI and two weeks later

on November 25 / 26, 2018 its 12th European User meeting in Heidelberg, Germany.

The theme of both meeting was “Color and Appearance Harmony” using BYK-Gardner’s

measurement solutions to achieve CLASS A surface quality.

The winning team prevailed against 14 competitors from all ALTANA divisions

Specialty chemicals group expanding its digital printing technology portfolio

From 16-20 October at the Friedrichshafen exhibition center, attention turns once more to the industrial processing of plastics and its challenges.

Thorsten Kröller, currently Head of the Business Line Plastics Additives at the BYK Division, will assume the leadership of the ACTEGA Division as of March 1, 2019. He will succeed Dr. Roland Peter, who is going to retire. At the same time, Thorsten Kröller will join ALTANA’s Executive Management Team.

BYK-Gardner - worldwide partner of the automotive, paint and plastic industries for quality control of color, appearance and physical properties - is introducing the Gardner-scrub ECE 43.

This year’s “BYK Advance” prize has been awarded to the team behind the development of a new family of hydrophilic additives, with its flagship BYK-3560.

BYK-Gardner - worldwide partner of the automotive, paint and plastic industries for quality

control of color, appearance and physical properties - is introducing the new spectro2guide,

the revolution in color measurement.