Rohm and Haas Co. announced several facility-consolidation and shutdown moves as part of the company's ongoing cost-cutting program aimed at boosting financial performance.
Ronald C. Lazof has resigned as president and CEO of Behr Process Corp., Santa Ana, CA, and will pursue "other consulting and investing opportunities."
GEO Specialty Chemicals Inc., a supplier of resin products and additives for coatings, announced a collaboration agreement with the University of Southern Mississippi's International Coatings and Formulation Institute (ICFI) involving a research program designed to develop new, environmentally friendly waterborne polyurethane dispersion coatings.
Akzo Nobel announced plans to build a powder-coatings manufacturing plant in Vietnam in a project with a joint-venture partner, Chang Cheng Securities.
Nissan has named PPG Industries Inc. to be the sole finishing-products supplier at the automaker's new assembly plant in Canton, MS, when the plant begins operation in 2003, PPG announced.
The recent General Assembly and Annual Conference of CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry, featured reports on strategies to deal with challenges facing the industry and major trends in society in general.
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