Air Products and Chemicals Inc. announced the launch of a new Performance Materials Division that combines the company's specialty surfactants, vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer emulsions, and specialty amines and curatives operations.
BASF Corp.'s Automotive Refinish business recently hosted a UV-cure coatings symposium to review and demonstrate the company's expertise in UV-cure coatings and exchange ideas for new commercial applications for the refinish market, the company said.
PPG Industries Inc.'s PRC-DeSoto International and aircraft-transparencies businesses announced the launch of a new combined brand identity as PPG Aerospace.
Eric Dumain, Reichhold Inc. Technical manager for Powder Coating Resins, received the first annual Carlos Ortiz Best Paper Award at Powder Coating 2002 for the paper, "GMA Acrylic Resins in Powder Coatings."
Rohm and Haas Automotive Coatings started construction of a new, 46,000-square-foot Technical Research Center in Lansing, MI, with completion scheduled for mid-2003.
John H. "Bud" Ferring III, founder and retired president of Plaze Inc., an aerosol-product packaging company located in St. Clair, MO, died Sept. 16 of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Ian C. Edwards, Global Business director, DuPont Titanium Technologies, will deliver the keynote address at TiO2 2003, Intertech's eighth international titanium dioxide forum and business-development conference.
The Product Stewardship Institute, based at the University of Massachusetts/Lowell, has launched the "Paint Product Stewardship Project," a program aimed at bringing key parties together to jointly address issues related to leftover-paint management.
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