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Top Industry News                             April 2, 2007 Issue

Consumers Getting Bolder with Color, PARA Paints Survey Shows
More and more Canadians are experimenting with color on their walls. That’s the finding of a recent survey by leading architectural paint brand PARA Paints, Brampton, Ontario,in polling its more than 400 paint dealers across the country ... Read full story here

Non-Toxic Material Crosslinking Technology Requested
A NineSigma Request, RFP# 50412-1, "Non-Toxic Material Crosslinking Technology" has been issued by a Global 500 consumer-products company seeking proposals for a bio-friendly, film-forming crosslinking system ... Read full story here

Delta Coatings Acquires Federated Paint and Midwest Lacquer
Delta Coatings Corp., Melrose Park, Ill., announced today it has acquired Federated Paint and Midwest Lacquer, Melrose Park, Ill., a manufacturer of liquid coatings and lacquer paint products ... Read full story here

The People File

Antonius Brouns Appointed European Sales Manager for CVC Specialty Chemicals
Antonius (Tony) Brouns was recently appointed European sales manager for CVC Specialty Chemicals, Inc., Moorestown, N.J.   Brouns was formerly distributor manager EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) for Hexion ... Read full story here

Halox Hires Inside Sales Assistant
Halox, Hammond, Ind., has placed Sara Grudzien as the company’s newest inside sales assistant. Her responsibilities include the administration of the company’s relationship management software system as well as customer and vendor public relations, and special-event coordination. Halox is a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of corrosion inhibitors.

Dow Polyurethanes Plans Capital Investments in Europe
Dow Polyurethanes, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., plans to further invest in Europe by expanding capacity at two of its facilities over the next two years ... Read full story here

H.B. Fuller to Webcast Annual Shareholder Meeting
H.B. Fuller Company, St. Paul, Minn., will webcast (www.hbfuller.com) its annual shareholder meeting in its entirety on Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. CDT (3:00 p.m. EDT) ... Read full story here

Rohm and Haas to Release Q1 2007 Earnings
Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia, will release First Quarter 2007 earnings before the New York Stock Exchange opens on Monday, April 23 ... Read full story here

BASF Increases Capacity for Neopentyl Glycol
BASF is adding 10,000 metric tons to its annual capacity for neopentyl glycol (NPG) at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany ... Read full story here

Dow Epoxy Chooses Shanghai for New Plant Location
Dow Epoxy, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., has named Shanghai Chemical Industry Park as the selected site for its world-scale 150,000-MTPA glycerin-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant and 100,000-MTPA liquid epoxy resins (LER) plant ... Read full story here

PMSL Live Chat Customer Service Available on Philamixers.com
Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, Ltd. (PMSL), Palmyra, Pa., a designer, developer and manufacturer of mixing and aeration systems, has added PMSL Live Chat Customer Service to its website ... Read full story here

Akzo Nobel Is Awarded a Technical Approval From General Motors Europe
Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes, Sassenheim, the Netherlands, has received approval from General Motors Europe (GM) on the Sikkens brand paint system ... Read full story here

TEFSA-USA Appoints New Representatives in the Carolinas and Eastern Canada
Phoenix-based TEFSA-USA has appointed Process Equipment as its Southeast regional representative, and Nortec S.G.S., Inc., as its representative in Eastern Canada, including Ontario and Quebec ... Read full story here

Organik Group to Test New Water-Based Emulsion Polymer Plant in the Netherlands
Organik Group, Istanbul, Turkey, a fast-growing specialty chemicals producer, has announced that its Rotterdam Production Facilities is ready to start its test productions of selected water-based emulsion polymers for various industrial applications ... Read full story here

Malvern Launches Consultancy Service for Particulate Processors
Malvern Instruments, Malvern, UK, has launched a new consultancy service designed specifically to meet the requirements of the process industries ... Read full story here

Chicago Coatings Societies Recognize Contributors to Successful Educational Event
The Chicago Society for Coatings Technology (CSCT) and the Chicago Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) held their Windy City Coatings Course in March at Chicago-area DePaul University. Monies raised from the course help to support the Joint CSCT/CPCA scholarship fund ... Read full story here

e-Training Course Gives Benefits of Nanotechnology in Coatings
Mark Drunkenbrod, dispersion specialist and graduate physicist, will present an e-training course on the “Use and Benefits of Nanotechnology in Coatings” April 17 at 10 a.m. U.S. Eastern time ... Click here for full details

Asia Pacific Coatings Show in June Offers Opportunities for International Networking
Organized byThe Coatings Group, dmg world media, and sponsored by Asia Pacific Coatings Journal (APCJ) and Polymers Paint Color Journal (PPCJ), the Asia Pacific Coatings Show is reported to be the leading coatings exhibition in South East Asia and the Pacific Rim for raw materials suppliers and equipment manufacturers for the coatings industry ... Click here for full details

Still Time to Attend the Annual Meeting of The Southern Society for Coatings Technology in Florida
The Southern Society for Coatings Technology is holding its 71st Annual Meeting and Technology Conference, “Coatings at the Water's Edge,” April 29-May 2, 2007, at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Daytona Beach, Fla. For further information, a preliminary agenda, registration form and/or tabletop application, visit the SSCT website www.ssct.org or call or e-mail 601-310-7687, laurafosselman@ssct.org.