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.
The New York Society for Coatings Technology announced plans for a professional-development conference scheduled for Sept. 24-25 at Ceasar's Atlantic City Resort, Atlantic City, NJ.
Akzo Nobel announced the launch of a new business unit focusing on powder coatings, a move the company said reflects an expanded powder-coatings product line.
PPG Industries Inc. has received a "Green Chemistry Challenge Award" from the U.S. EPA in recognition of the company's development of the Enviro-Prime 2000 lead-free anticorrosion electrodeposition coatings.
John S. Ruch, PPG Industries Inc.'s manager of Corporate Public Information and a veteran of nearly 33 years with the company, announced his retirement, effective July 1.
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