For the eighth time in 10 years, BASF has received General Motors’ Supplier of the Year Award. Hans Engel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BASF Corp., accepted the award on behalf of the company’s Coatings Division during General Motors’ annual awards ceremony.

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InnoVoc Solutions, a division of Gordon Composites, Inc., announced a breakthrough technology for powder coating plastics, composites and other nonconductive substrates.

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The UK-based Long Term Development Group of Becker Industrial Coatings has become one of the first laboratories in the world to gain ISO 17025 (General Requirements for the Competence of Calibration and Testing Laboratories) accreditation for the testing of solar reflectance and other thermal properties of coatings and painted surfaces according to the ASTM Methods E903, C 1371 and E 1980.

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Graco’s high-performance coatings and foam (HPCF) business unit recently announced its Top 20 HPCF North American distributors for 2011.

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Bayer MaterialScience has begun construction of a multipurpose production plant for polyurethane coating raw materials at Chempark Leverkusen, Germany.

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Joe Martorana, Vice President of Corporate Operations for Charles Ross & Son Co., announced the relocation of Ross Process Equipment (RPE) into a new plant in Pune, India, tripling the size of its previous facility.

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3 Sigma is installing a wide-format specialty coater, with production trials beginning in the first quarter of 2012.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that its bromate analysis solutions are fully compliant with the new ISO standard for bromate analysis by ion chromatography (IC) titled, Water quality - Determination of dissolved bromate - Method using ion chromatography (IC) and post column reaction (PCR) (ISO 11206:2011(E)).

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Arkema announced plans to acquire the industrial applications specialty alcoxylate business of SEPPIC.

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LANXESS has acquired Verichem Inc., Pittsburgh, PA.

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Now in its second edition and still the only book of its kind, this is an authoritative treatment of all stages of the coating process.

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