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Eastman Chemical Co.'s Accurate Dispersions division, South Holland, IL, announced plans to open a new Architectural Color Lab.

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The Valspar Corp. announced the acquisition of certain assets of the coil, spray-applied door and rigid-packaging businesses of Benjamin Moore & Co.'s Technical Coatings Co.

The city of Philadelphia in November unveiled a huge, 6,000-square-foot American flag mural painted on the side of a Philadelphia warehouse facing Interstate 95, in a project commemorating the tragic events of Sept. 11.

Q-Panel Corp. announced the opening of the company's new international headquarters in Cleveland.

BASF announced the introduction of the experimental "Constellation Colors" for automotive coatings, which the company says use various technical approaches to make colors on vehicles visible at night.

The Henkel Group completed the sale of Cognis, the company's specialty chemicals business, to an investment consortium that includes Permira, GS Capital Partners and Schroder Ventures Life Sciences.

The Morehouse-COWLES division of MFIC Corp. announced the opening of a sample test laboratory in Fullerton, CA.

Lester Allan "Al" Henning, retired director of Research at the former DeSoto Inc., died Dec. 6, 2001, in Evanston, IL. He was 62.

The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) issued program details for the 29th Annual International Waterborne, High-Solids and Powder Coatings Symposium, scheduled for Feb. 6-8 in New Orleans.