Degussa Corp.'s Silanes Business Line, Parsippany, NJ, has appointed Baker & Collinson Inc., Detroit, distributor of Degussa's organosilanes product line in the Midwest.
Grace Davison, Baltimore, announced the opening of Technical Customer Service centers in Atsugi, Japan, and Sunde, China, to serve customers in the coatings and digital-printing industries.
Duron Inc., Beltsville, MD, and Professional Paint Inc., a group of paint-manufacturing businesses headquartered in Denver, announced the launch of a marketing alliance to sell paint, wallcoverings and sundries to major national accounts.
To no one's surprise, sales and earnings reports from major coatings manufacturers for the fourth quarter and year 2001 showed the effects of economic weakness in U.S. and overseas markets. But signs that the recession had eased its grip could also be detected in some of the numbers.
Reichhold Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, has appointed McCullough & Benton, Atlanta, distributor for Reichhold's Global Coating and Performance Resins business in the southeastern United States.
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