A key committee of the New Jersey legislature, responding to comments from the National Paint & Coatings Association and New Jersey Paint Council, rejected a bill that would have imposed a 50% per-container tax on paint.
Bayer Corp.'s Coatings and Colorants Division announced plans to consolidate polyester resins manufacturing at the company's New Martinsville, WV, and Columbus, GA, production sites and close its plant at Hicksville, NY, by the end of this year.
Paint & Coatings Industry (PCI) magazine has announced that Rose Ann Ryntz, manager of Advanced Materials Engineering at Visteon Corp. and a noted expert on plastics-coatings technology, will address the 5th International Coatings for Plastics Symposium.
Under an agreement with the U.S. EPA, manufacturers of pressure-treated wood will voluntarily discontinue the use of treatment products containing arsenic by Dec. 31, 2003, the EPA announced.
The Detroit Society for Coatings Technology announced program plans for the group's annual FOCUS conference, scheduled for May 2 at the MSU Management Education Center, Troy, MI.
A Maryland judge ordered the dismissal of most of the claims in a lead-paint lawsuit filed on behalf of six children affected by lead poisoning in Baltimore.
Mohamed S. El-Aasser, dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University, will receive the prestigious Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2002.
PPG Industries Inc.'s Pittsburgh Paints brand, a part of the company's Architectural Finishes unit, announced the launch of a new line of zero-VOC premium interior paints, named Pure Performance paint.
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