The NPCA recently launched a program of lead-safety training sessions for remodeling, repair and painting activities with a seminar in Boston. Plans for programs in Albany, NY, and Baltimore were to be announced in the near future.
Professional Paint Inc. has acquired, through a wholly owned subsidiary, the operating assets of Duckback Products Inc., a manufacturer of wood and concrete stains based in Chico, CA. Duckback Products distributes products nationwide in the United States and Canada.
The U.S. EPA recently issued a national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for miscellaneous coatings-manufacturing processes, a rule that will limit emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) at major coatings-manufacturing facilities.
A circuit court judge in Chicago dismissed the city's lawsuit against a group of former manufacturers of lead paint and pigments in the latest in a series of legal victories for the industry in its defense against such suits.
Schenectady International Inc. has acquired DSM Coating Resins Europe B.V.'s phenolic resin product line, which includes phenolic resins used for internal and external can-coating applications. Terms were not disclosed.
Wacker Chemical Corp. recently highlighted technology innovations for a variety of automotive applications at a North American press briefing in Ann Arbor, MI.
The Dow Chemical Co. announced an agreement to acquire the acrylates business of Celanese AG, a purchase that includes inventory, intellectual property and technology for crude acrylic acid, glacial acrylic acid, ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl acrylate and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has criticized a new draft of the European Union's sweeping chemicals-regulation proposal as "excessive and highly bureaucratic," and urged major changes in the plan.
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