Value gains in the U.S. market for pigments in the next several years will be driven by a shift in the product mix toward more costly organic and specialty products that offer environmental or unique optical effects, a recently issued study concludes.
The NPCA recently issued a "grassroots alert" to association member companies, urging support of federal legislation designed to stem the threat of a flood of asbestos-related litigation against industries and companies that had little, if any, connection to asbestos production or use.
The European Commission formally issued its much-criticized REACH chemicals-registration proposal, a sweeping measure that goes before the European Parliament and EU government ministers for ratification.
Louis A. Ruckgaber Jr., chairman and president of Egyptian Lacquer Manufacturing Co. Inc. and a longtime chairman and member of the National Paint & Coatings Association's Management Information Committee, died Sept. 24 in Columbia, TN, following a battle with cancer. He was 73.
The NPCA recently launched a program of lead-safety training sessions for remodeling, repair and painting activities with a seminar in Boston. Plans for programs in Albany, NY, and Baltimore were to be announced in the near future.
The U.S. EPA recently issued a national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for miscellaneous coatings-manufacturing processes, a rule that will limit emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) at major coatings-manufacturing facilities.
A circuit court judge in Chicago dismissed the city's lawsuit against a group of former manufacturers of lead paint and pigments in the latest in a series of legal victories for the industry in its defense against such suits.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has criticized a new draft of the European Union's sweeping chemicals-regulation proposal as "excessive and highly bureaucratic," and urged major changes in the plan.
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