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Afa Dispensing Group (Afa), a leader in technologically advanced liquid dispensing systems, is celebrating 40 years of packaging innovation.

PPG Industries has received the necessary approvals from Indian authorities to expand its coatings joint venture and also to create a second joint venture with Asian Paints Ltd., India’s largest coatings company.

Danish-based Hempel has acquired protective linings and coatings manufacturer Blome International, O'Fallon, MO, through its U.S.-based affiliate Hempel USA Inc., Conroe, TX.

The exterior of the historic battleship USS Iowa has been repainted using PSX^®ONE coating, a one-component acrylic-siloxane coating introduced last year by PPG Industries’ protective and marine coatings business (PMC).

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has released a new safety video that examines the concept of inherent safety and its application across industry.

Jotun has opened its powder coatings factory and regional R&D facility in China.

Reactive Surfaces, Austin, TX, will open the doors of its new coatings manufacturing plant in Hattiesburg, MS, starting in July 2012.

DuPont Refinish will discontinue the inclusion of leaded pigments in all of its refinish paint products by the end of 2012.

Wacker Chemie AG has bestowed this year’s Alexander Wacker Innovation Award on Christian Daniels, John Boylan and Bruce Gruber. The WACKER researchers have developed two novel dispersions based on vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers.

In a new study, Brown University engineers report that when they used selenium nanoparticles to coat polycarbonate, the material of catheters and endotracheal tubes, the results were significant reductions in cultured populations of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, sometimes by as much as 90 percent.