BASF Coatings and the design agency Are We Designer are joint winners of the “Red Dot Award: Communication Design” for the design of their global color trend book.
Coat’N’Cool, an Orange County, CA-based cool roof company, will serve as a vendor for New York City’s cool roof initiative, “NYC Cool Roofs,” and has been contracted to provide its cool roof product to cover the 14,000-square-foot roof of a New York City condominium building.
The Atlanta application support center operated by PPG Industries’ aerospace business has been recognized by Northrop Grumman Corp. as a 2011 Platinum Source Preferred supplier for quality and performance in providing coatings, sealants and value-added services.
BYK Additives & Instruments has honored its international project team responsible for the company’s additive CERAFLOUR® 1000 with the BYK Advance innovation award.
Wacker Chemie AG has bestowed this year’s Alexander Wacker Innovation Award on Christian Daniels, John Boylan and Bruce Gruber. The WACKER researchers have developed two novel dispersions based on vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has recognized OMNOVA Solutions’ Global Technology Center in Akron, OH, and specialty chemicals facilities in Green Bay, WI, Fitchburg, MA, and Calhoun, GA, with Certificates of Excellence for their safety achievements in 2011.
OMNOVA Solutions’ Green Bay, WI, paper chemicals facility was presented with a Return on Environment Award from General Electric’s (GE) Power & Water division for OMNOVA’s use of excess capacity in the plant’s reverse osmosis (RO) system to supply water to the boiler system.
