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Top Industry News                                  October 29, 2007 Issue

Breaking News
On Oct 28, at the National Paint and Coatings Association (NPCA) Board of Directors meeting, a representative from the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology presented a proposal for merging the two organizations ... More

Silver Again Tops Charts as Most Popular Vehicle Color
Around the globe, silver is at the top of the charts as the most popular color for 2007 cars, but other colors are gaining on the perennial leader ... More

Acquisition Action Report

Atlas Material Testing Technology Sells Majority Stake in Company
Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC, Chicago, has finalized an agreement to sell a majority stake in the company to Industrial Growth Partners (IGP), a specialized investment firm focused on middle-market industrial manufacturing and manufacturing services businesses ... More

Tikkurila Companies to Merge
Kemira Coatings (Tikkurila), which is responsible for Kemira’s paints and coatings business, has prepared a merger plan according to which Tikkurila Paints Oy and Tikkurila Coatings Oy will merge into their parent company, Tikkurila Oy ... More

Business Barometer

Akzo Nobel Releases Third-Quarter Results
Akzo Nobel has reported a seven-percent improvement in EBITDA for the third quarter to EUR 333 million on EUR 2.6 billion in revenues, reflecting a strong performance across the company, particularly from Chemicals ... More

The People File

Fitz Chem Promotes Don Deihs
Robert C. Becker, President and CEO of Fitz Chem Corp., recently announced that Don Deihs has been promoted to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer ... More

Sean Taufer Joins Fristam Pumps
Sean Taufer has joined Fristam Pumps USA as the Southwest Regional Sales Manager ... More

Walsh and Associates Appoints Two Sales Representatives
Walsh and Associates Inc. has named David J. Hornbecker as the Sales Representative for the company’s Denver sales region and Larry E. Teihes as the Sales Representative for the company’s central Midwest sales region ... More

Company Portfolio

OMNOVA Facility Receives Award
OMNOVA Solutions’ Performance Chemicals facility in Green Bay, WI, received a Return On Environment award (ROE) from GE Water and Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Co., for recent actions taken as a part of the plant’s environmental continuous improvement program ...
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Syrgis Performance Products Launches New Company
Following its recent purchase of Novac, a producer of methyl ethyl ketone peroxides, Syrgis Performance Products has announced the renaming of the Norac organic peroxides business units in the United States to Syrgis Performance Initiators Inc. and in Europe to Syrgis Performance Initiators AB ...
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Union Process Launches New Website
With an all-new look, the site is streamlined to be more user friendly with in-depth information on the company's wet- and dry-grinding attritors, small media mills, and grinding media ...
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FKI Logistex® Receives Award
FKI Logistex, a company specializing in integrated material handling solutions, and Koroberi Inc., a business-to-engineer integrated marketing firm, have received the 2007 Outstanding Material Handling and Logistics Content Award for their joint white paper, RFID for the Real World: Challenges and Opportunities in the Warehouse and Distribution Center Environment ...
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Supplier Price Alerts

Cray Valley Announces Increase for Crayvallac® Additives
Effective October 1, 2007, Cray Valley increased the price of its Crayvallac additives by 7 to 10 percent, or as contracts allowed. This price change has been made to help offset price upsurges for many of the raw materials used in the manufacture of Crayvallac® additives. These increases continue to escalate, and a number of raw materials continue to be in short supply.

Rohm and Haas Announces Price Increase
Rohm and Haas Co. has announced it is seeking price increases for most of its chemical products, effective November 1, 2007. Increases will range from 5 to 15 percent ... More 

Meetings, Courses & Other Events

Cleveland Coatings Event Set for November
The Cleveland Coatings event is scheduled for November 7th, 2007, at the Plaza Hotel in Middleburg Heights, OH ... More

Pacific Northwest Society for Coatings Announces Symposium/Issues Call for Papers
The Pacific Northwest Society for Coatings and Technology (PNWSCT) will hold its annual Spring Symposium, the Northwest Coatings Fest 2008, on May 7–9, 2007, at the Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, Washington ... More

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