3M, St. Paul, Minn., is providing information to help its customers meet requirements specified in the new hexavalent chromium standard recently released by OSHA.
The Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), Boston; the National Paint and Coatings Association (NPCA), Washington; and other stakeholders in a national paint dialogue have chosen Green Seal, Inc., Washington, to develop a national standard for recycled paint.
Paul Solman, the popular business and economics correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, will be the keynote speaker on Sept. 25th for the opening session and subsequent afternoon panel discussion at the API Polyurethanes 2006 Technical Conference.
BASF announced an agreement to acquire resins manufacturer Johnson Polymer, a subsidiary of JohnsonDiversey Inc. of Sturtevant, Wis., a U.S. cleaning and hygiene products manufacturer.
International Specialty Products Inc. (ISP) announced that, through one of its subsidiaries, it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the assets of the biocide business of Milker & Grüning GmbH (M&G).
Solutions Dispersions Inc., Cynthiana, Ky., has appointed CHEMCENTRAL, Chicago, and CHEMCENTRAL joint-venture partners as distributors for its lines of carbon-black dispersions for all global locations except the United States.
In a major victory for industry, the Judiciary Committee of Maryland's House of Delegates, Annapolis, voted "unfavorable" on H.B. 1394, effectively defeating an initiative that would specifically recognize "market share liability" as a recognized legal theory of liability against (former) manufacturers of lead-based paint.