International Paint Protective Coatings, an AkzoNobel company, will merge its distribution center in Baton Rouge, LA, with the local AkzoNobel company-owned store in the same locale.
Sherwin-Williams has been awarded the contract to supply marine coatings as part of a three-year overhaul of the super carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.
Neutral-silver and gold aircraft window coatings by PPG Industries’ Aerospace Transparencies group that were on display during the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual meeting and convention demonstrate aesthetic options in solar-reflective coating technology.
Albert Heuser, currently President of the Petrochemicals division for BASF, will become President, Regional Division Market and Business Development Asia Pacific, as of March 1, 2010.
Celanese Corp. has announced it is expanding its vinyl acetate/ethylene (VAE) manufacturing facility at its Nanjing, China, integrated chemical complex.
BASF has announced first figures for the third quarter of 2009. Sales were EUR 12.8 billion and thus 19 percent less than in the same period of 2008 and 2.4 percent more than in the second quarter of 2009.
The Lubrizol Corp. announced that it expects to report earnings performance for the third quarter of 2009 of approximately $2.46 per diluted share, including a restructuring and impairment charge of approximately $.06 per diluted share.
PPG Industries has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its first resin production facility in mainland China at the Zhangjiagang Yangtze International Chemical Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, Zhangjiagang, China.