The Dow Chemical Co.'s UCAR Emulsion Systems business unit announced plans to build a new production plant at the company's Union Carbide Corp. St. Charles site in Louisiana and expand production operations in Alsip, IL, and Sarnia, Ontario.
- Lyondell Chemical Co. and Bayer MaterialScience AG formally opened a major new propylene oxide/styrene monomer manufacturing facility in Maasvlakte, The Netherlands, near Rotterdam.
The U.S. market for paint and coatings rebounded with growth of 3.9% in 2003 and will continue to expand this year, hitting an estimated total dollar value of $18.2 billion, a newly issued industry study estimates.
International Specialty Products Inc. (ISP) has acquired Biochema Schwaben, a supplier of preservatives and biocides for industrial and personal-care applications, with products for the paint and coatings, ink, polymer emulsions, and other markets.
BASF's Greenville and Whitehouse, OH, coatings and resins facilities received the Ohio Chemistry Technology Council's 2003 "Excellence in Responsible Care" Award for environmental, health and safety performance.
Curtiss-Wright Corp. has acquired certain assets of the Evesham, UK, coatings business operated by the Morgan Advanced Ceramics Ltd. subsidiary of Morgan Crucible Plc. The purchase price was approximately £3.4 million, or about $6.35 million.
BASF Coatings presented the city of Sao Paulo with 15,000 liters of the company's Suvinil brand architectural coatings for "The Wall," a legal-graffiti art project celebrating the Brazilian city's 450th anniversary.
The Cleveland Society for Coatings Technology has issued program details for the society's annual technical symposium, "Sink or Swim," scheduled for May 8-10 at the Hilton Cleveland East/Beachwood, Beachwood, OH.
The NPCA announced the availability of its new "Lead-Safe Work Practices Training Program" DVD, the latest module in the association's National Lead Safety for Remodeling, Repair, and Painting Training Program.
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