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Akzo Nobel announced the start of construction of two new coatings-manufacturing facilities in China.

John Williams has received the Anti-Defamation League’s David H. Litter Humanitarian Award.

BASF Automotive Refinish’s EXTREME COLORS line of color-shifting automotive-refinish paints has received the “Award for Excellence in Material Development” from Material ConneXion.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. has been named a recipient of the National Council to Prevent Delinquency’s “Partner in Prevention” award for contributions to the council’s Anti-Graffiti project.

Eastern Michigan University’s Coatings Research Institute has opened a new Polymer Physics Laboratory donated to the university by BP Amoco.

ASTM will offer a training course on laboratory accelerated-weathering testing, “Weathering and Durability.”

ASTM has awarded Joseph V. Koleske the Charles B. Dudley Medal.

Rose A. Ryntz will receive the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology’s highest honor, the George Baugh Heckel Award.

COATING 2001, the second biennial conference and exhibition dedicated to a range of finishing technologies, is scheduled for Oct. 15-17, 2001.

Rohm and Haas has named M. Reginald Horne vice president and business director for the company’s Automotive Coatings business.