Mike Horton, President of PPG Industries’ Asia Pacific region, was honored by the Shanghai Municipal Government with the Magnolia Memorial Award for his contributions to the city.
The Protech/Oxyplast Group of Montreal, Canada, has reached an agreement to purchase the thermoplastic powder coatings business and assets of Union City Industries (UCI) of Union City, MI.
The ongoing transformation of Rio de Janeiro's famous Santa Marta favela continued in August when 450 volunteers from the city took part in one of the biggest ever "Let's Colour" events to be staged by AkzoNobel's Decorative Paints business.
The Beautiful China Environment Forum, an environmental protection event organized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China, the China Forum of Environmental Journalists and C-SR.net, successfully held its third meeting of 2015 in Qingdao recently.
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has broken ground on a new application development center for liquid coatings at its Oak Creek, WI, plant.
BASF received the Honda Corporate Citizenship award, presented each year to suppliers that show an exceptional commitment to social responsibility and leadership in the areas of health and safety, diversity, community involvement, ethics and compliance, human rights, and the environment.
