Ace Hardware Corp.'s Ace Paint Division, Chicago, presented its "Preferred Supplier Award" to DuPont Titanium Technologies, Wilmington, DE, based on quality, service, pricing and value provided through Six Sigma methodology.
Major architectural-coatings manufacturers are facing the possibility of millions of dollars in additional costs for selling products in California, according to preliminary estimates related to a proposed fee program based on emissions of VOCs from those coatings.
Masco Corp. announced that courts in California and Washington have given final approval to settlements that are expected to conclude all class-action lawsuits pending in the United States against Masco and its Behr Process Corp. subsidiary related to exterior wood-coating products formerly manufactured by Behr.
BASF has acquired the Vistanex LM polyisobutylene business of ExxonMobil Chemical Co., a purchase that BASF said expands its polyisobutylene product line.
Buhler AG, a supplier of plant systems and processing equipment, announced plans to acquire the business activities of Draiswerke GmbH Mannheim's Dispersion and Micro Wet Grinding Technology unit.
Degussa, Parsippany, NJ, announced a change in the name of its Aztec Peroxides L.L.C. subsidiary to Degussa Initiators L.L.C. The business, based in Elyria, OH, is a unit of Degussa's Catalysts & Initiators business unit.
Eastburn Sales Associates Inc., Salt Lake City, has been launched by Bill Eastburn, a former sales and marketing manager with PPG Aerospace and Akzo Nobel.
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