The lingering smell of a recently painted room is a thing of the past with Dunn-Edwards' newest product, Ecoshield™, a line of paint that emits very little odor.
Cytec Surface Specialties, a leading global supplier of resin technology for the coatings and adhesives industries, has completed the renovation of its powder coatings applications lab in Smyrna, Ga.
An SGM (Shanghai General Motors) Excelle automobile painted with BASF waterborne basecoats has rolled off the General Motors assembly line in Shanghai, marking the first use of waterborne basecoat technology in the history of the Chinese automobile industry.
The Dow Chemical Co. will further extend part of its polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (PMDI) operations at its LaPorte, Texas, facility, while the company's new 500-million-lb PMDI facility in Freeport, Texas, continues its startup process.
The Valspar Corp., Minneapolis, a leading coatings manufacturer, has completed the acquisition of Samuel Cabot Inc., a privately owned manufacturer of exterior and interior stains and finishes.
Artomation Corp., a supplier of automatic paint machines for a wide range of U.S. customers, has contracted to supply its PanelPro machine to PPG China.
The Coatings Research Institute (CRI) of Eastern Michigan University is seeking technical papers to be considered for presentation at the Smart Coatings 2006 Symposium to be held Feb. 15-17, 2006, at the Grosvenor Resort, Orlando, Fla.