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PPG Industries announced plans to combine its aircraft-transparency and aerospace coatings and sealants businesses to form a new business unit called Aerospace Products.

Duron has promoted David Whaley to director of Sales and Operations for the Philadelphia region.

Akzo Nobel announced the start of construction of two new coatings-manufacturing facilities in China.

John Williams has received the Anti-Defamation League’s David H. Litter Humanitarian Award.

BASF Automotive Refinish’s EXTREME COLORS line of color-shifting automotive-refinish paints has received the “Award for Excellence in Material Development” from Material ConneXion.

BASF Coatings Raw Materials has appointed Ribelin Sales distributor in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. has been named a recipient of the National Council to Prevent Delinquency’s “Partner in Prevention” award for contributions to the council’s Anti-Graffiti project.

Eastern Michigan University’s Coatings Research Institute has opened a new Polymer Physics Laboratory donated to the university by BP Amoco.

ASTM will offer a training course on laboratory accelerated-weathering testing, “Weathering and Durability.”

ASTM has awarded Joseph V. Koleske the Charles B. Dudley Medal.