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Rhodia has announced plans to acquire Feixiang Chemicals, China’s leading producer of amines and surfactants. The acquisition will enable Rhodia to integrate specialty amine technologies into its Novecare business portfolio. The combination of Rhodia’s formulation expertise and end-market applications with Feixiang Chemicals specialty amines capabilities will reinforce Rhodia’s position in specialty surfactants for the home and personal care, agrochemicals, oilfield and industrial markets.

“This acquisition is a key step in the implementation of Rhodia’s profitable growth strategy. Through the integration of Feixiang Chemicals, Rhodia significantly strengthens its leadership positions in the surfactant business, while enhancing its footprint in the world’s fastest growing region,” said Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, chairman and CEO, Rhodia. “We aim to double the size of the acquired business within the next five years. Following the completion of this acquisition, Rhodia will generate around one third of its net sales in Asia.”

Headquartered in Zhangjiagang near Shanghai, Feixiang Chemicals Feixiang Chemicals is one of the leading companies in the Asia-Pacific area, producing, developing and selling the full range of fatty amines and specialty amines. It employs approximately 650 people. The company has demonstrated its ability to drive top line growth—average of 20% per year—while enhancing its profitability over the past five years.

The acquisition price is based on an enterprise value of $489 million for
100% of the company. The current majority owner will retain 12.5% of the capital over the next two years. The deal is expected to be finalized in the second half 2010.

Rhodia Novecare, with net sales of €827 million in 2009, provides high-performance products and solutions to a wide range of industries including cosmetics, detergents, agrochemicals and oil, as well as coating and industrial applications. Rhodia Novecare holds leading positions in the surfactants, phosphorus derivatives, natural polymers, synthetic polymers and monomers technologies, and eco-friendly oxygenated solvents markets.

Structured around six enterprises, Rhodia is the partner of major players in the automotive, electronics, flavors and fragrances, health, personal and home care markets, consumer goods and industrial markets. The group employs around 13,600 people worldwide and generated sales of €4.03 billion in 2009.

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J. J. Moloney, W. Y. Mok, and C. M. Menendez et al.
Pitting corrosion of pipelines remains a serious concern to operators in the oil and gas industry. Pitting is a particularly insidious and extremely rapid form of attack of a metal structure that can lead to unexpected system failures. The pipe wall can be perforated within a relatively short space ... [Corrosion 66 065003 (2010)] published Tue Jun 01, 2010.

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K. Lau, A. A. Sagüés, and R. G. Powers et al.
The extent of corrosion of epoxy-coated rebar (ECR) in marine bridges was found to be generally correlated with concrete chloride dijfusivity, DApp, with significant corrosion observed for bridges with DApp values reaching up to ∼10−7 cm2/s but not for sound concrete locations in bridges with DApp ... [Corrosion 66 065002 (2010)] published Tue Jun 01, 2010.

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A. A. Sagüés, K. Lau, and R. G. Powers et al.
The corrosion performance over a nearly 30-year service period of epoxy-coated rebar (ECR) in Florida marine bridges is presented. Severe ECR corrosion was noted earlier in several of those bridges, built with relatively high permeability concrete. Corrosion development took place later in some oth ... [Corrosion 66 065001 (2010)] published Tue Jun 01, 2010.

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Q. Su, K. N. Allahar, and G. P. Bierwagen et al.
Two-layered United States Air Force organic coatings are designed with the topcoat functioning as a barrier against the environment and the primer providing adhesion between the topcoat and the substrate, as well as promoting chromate passivation. In standard testing methods such as salt spray and ... [Corrosion 66 066001 (2010)] published Tue Jun 01, 2010.

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S. B. Axelsen, R. Johnsen, and O. Ø. Knudsen et al.
Results from laboratory and field investigations of the mechanical characteristics of protective coatings are summarized. Lack of paint film flexibility and strength, together with internal stress and low adhesion, are expected to be the main reasons for the cracking and flaking of protective coati ... [Corrosion 66 065006 (2010)] published Tue Jun 01, 2010.

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S. B. Axelsen, R. Johnsen, and O. Ø. Knudsen et al.
This paper summarizes the results from laboratory investigations on internal stress in protective coatings. Internal stress, together with a lack of paint film flexibility and adhesion, are expected to be the main reasons for cracking and flaking of protective coatings. Mechanical properties and ad ... [Corrosion 66 065005 (2010)] published Tue Jun 01, 2010.

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M. Atapour, A. Pilchak, and G. S. Frankel et al.
The corrosion behavior of four different microstructures of Ti-6Al-4V with varying volume fractions of primary α (0, 10%∼20%, 40%∼50%, and ∼90%) was investigated in sodium chloride (NaCl) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) solutions. The microstructure constituent morphologies and distributions were chara ... [Corrosion 66 065004 (2010)] published Tue Jun 01, 2010.

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G. Hinds and A. Turnbull
In the first part of this two-part paper we reported on the development of a novel test method to evaluate the performance of inhibitors for underdeposit corrosion under sweet (carbon dioxide [CO2]) conditions for oil and gas applications. The use of a multi-electrode array enables examination of t ... [Corrosion 66 056002 (2010)] published Sat May 01, 2010.

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C. Andrade and I. Martínez
All the current techniques used to measure the metallic corrosion require contact with the metal. Particularly, in the case of reinforcement corrosion, this signifies the need to reach the bar that is embedded in the concrete, which consequently may result in the disruption of the integrity of the ... [Corrosion 66 056001 (2010)] published Sat May 01, 2010.

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