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...It’s a hydrating gel with little colour pigments that give a fresh, even complexion on application. And then there’s Victoria Beckham’s range....
...Supply chains for everything from plastic to pigments have been snarled, another advantage for the bigger companies that carry more sway with suppliers....
...“Isn't it interesting to use this pigment as a catalyst?”...
...Elementis profit warning. A reminder if it’s needed that Elementis makes ingredients for paints and O&G drilling stuff, along with talc and chromium chemicals....
...It can be challenging finding natural-looking nudes for dark skin but this gloss has enough pigment and punch to make it a new favourite....
...(FT) Japan Inc goes global for M&A advice Only three domestic brokerages rank among the top-ten deal advisers in Japan during the third quarter. Why is Japan Inc looking for foreign advice?...
...“Saint Jerome” went under the microscope of James Martin, a forensic art analyst who declared it to be fake after finding modern materials among its pigments....
...After Sotheby’s sent it for scientific tests to James Martin, a forensic art analyst, he concluded that pigments present in the painting showed it could not have been painted in the 17th century, when Hals...
...“The really good scientists are connoisseurs in their own right because they’re not just looking at the pigments but the way they’re applied,” says Grosvenor....
...He showed the bogus Hals had been executed partly in Dulux Deep Peach Glow, or some other historically improbable pigment. Mr Martin also has form in fingering suspect abstract expressionists....
...Managing Harrisons and Crosfield’s pigments business, she was “shocked” by what she saw as its poor attitude to safety and high accident rate....
...Made from a formulation of warm versus cool tones of pigment-rich powders, waxes and kaolin powders, Ruby Woo has a matte texture and is somehow ageless — something that can’t be said for all shades or textures...
...EWOS makes salmon feed, a mix of ingredients such as fish meal, soyabeans, wheat and pigments that fatten pink fish in pens....
...In 2014, a consultant called Walter Liew was found guilty of 22 counts of economic espionage for stealing information about how DuPont creates a white pigment found in paper and plastic products, to sell...
...DuPont, meanwhile, has pinned its colours to being a research-heavy speciality chemicals business, spinning off its paint pigment and Teflon operations as a new company called Chemours....
...Potential buyers may have been deterred by the group’s highly cyclical Chromium business, which makes coating pigments and accounts for about a third of group earnings....
...Two businesses are left behind in the existing company, one that sells network testing equipment and another that sells items such as the pigments and special threads used in banknotes....
...Skin colour is largely controlled by genes that code for the pigment, melanin, and they are already being investigated....
...Rockwood announced in September that it was selling its titanium dioxide pigments business and some other divisions to Huntsman Corporation for an enterprise value of $1.32bn....
...“Previously, light reflection to diffuse imperfections had to have shimmer” – which sat unflatteringly in the skin’s crevices; “today we use multi-reflecting pigments that can have a matte effect.”...
...Tronox, which emerged from Chapter 11 in 2011 and is now a paint pigments company, suggested in December that the damages proposed by the bankruptcy court would give it “no immediate or direct benefit”....
...“Katastrophentheorie III” (1983) is a gorgeous pool of purple pigment; panels of spilled, dripped paint, suggesting flux not unity, comprise “Triptych” (1991); works on paper are by turns grungy, pearlescent...
...His Contran Corp investment vehicle has at times owned industrial pigments makers, oil and gas services, restaurant franchises and made ultimately unsuccessful tilts at airlines and even aircraft builder...
...Huntsman’s pre-deal pigments business is only a tenth of its overall revenue. So cleverly, after the merger, the new pigments business will be separately listed in an initial public offering....
...It sold its paints business to Carlyle, the private equity group, a year ago for $4.9bn, and last October said it would sell or spin off its operations making paint pigments, refrigerants and Teflon....
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