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The National Paint & Coatings Association announced that it is revising its Hazardous Materials Identification System (HMIS).

CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colours Industry, has proposed a “harmonized” plan for control of VOCs in decorative (architectural) coatings in European Union countries.

U.S. Coatings recently began production of a range of anticorrosion industrial maintenance product.

The Color Pigments Manufacturers Association (CPMA) has announced plans for the next in a series of color-pigments conferences, scheduled for April 17-19 in Chicago.

Eastman Chemical announced that it will pursue a plan to split the company into two independent public companies.

The Dow Chemical Co. completed its $7.3-billion acquisition of Union Carbide Corp.

The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have joined a class-action lawsuit against former lead-paint and lead-pigment manufacturers following a California court’s rejection of most of the claims made in an earlier suit filed by Santa Clara County.

Nürnberg, Germany, becomes the world’s largest hub of the coatings industry with a range of products, information and events never seen before at the sixth European Coatings Show, scheduled for April 3–5.

Don’t expect to see a radical retreat from existing environmental policies at the federal level following George W. Bush’s inauguration as president.

The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Societies for Coatings Technology announced plans for the groups’ 44th annual Technical Symposium and exhibition.