The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has begun preliminary discussions of developing a photochemical reactivity-based regulation for architectural coatings.
Two Ohio investors have purchased the assets of Harrison Paint Corp. from bankruptcy court and said the company has resumed the production of coatings products for various markets.
ICI Paints announced the launch of a “Customer Needs-Based Strategy” focused on industrial maintenance coatings customers, and named Thomas Verghese to the newly created position of vice president and general manager.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced that it will take a fourth-quarter 2000 charge of approximately $352 million for “impairment of long-lived assets” involving goodwill associated with the company’s Cleaning Solutions, Thompson’s and Pratt & Lambert businesses.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced that Robert A. Taylor has joined Sherwin-Williams as president of the Chemical Coatings Business Unit of the Paint Stores Group.
Frank N. Jones, professor and director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center at Eastern Michigan University, has been named the recipient of the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2001.