OMG Americas Advanced Organics Division has expanded EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc.’s region for all specialty additives marketed into the coatings, inks and adhesive business segments.
Paint and coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has agreed to sell its North American Decorative Paints business to PPG Industries Inc. (PPG), Pittsburgh, for $1.05 billion.
Pump Solutions Group (PSG), a business unit within Dover Corp. that produces positive displacement pumps and related technologies, has been awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2012 Global Growth Excellence Award in the Positive Displacement Pumps market.
For the eighth time in 10 years, BASF has received General Motors’ Supplier of the Year Award. Hans Engel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BASF Corp., accepted the award on behalf of the company’s Coatings Division during General Motors’ annual awards ceremony.
InnoVoc Solutions, a division of Gordon Composites, Inc., announced a breakthrough technology for powder coating plastics, composites and other nonconductive substrates.
The UK-based Long Term Development Group of Becker Industrial Coatings has become one of the first laboratories in the world to gain ISO 17025 (General Requirements for the Competence of Calibration and Testing Laboratories) accreditation for the testing of solar reflectance and other thermal properties of coatings and painted surfaces according to the ASTM Methods E903, C 1371 and E 1980.
Bayer MaterialScience has begun construction of a multipurpose production plant for polyurethane coating raw materials at Chempark Leverkusen, Germany.
Joe Martorana, Vice President of Corporate Operations for Charles Ross & Son Co., announced the relocation of Ross Process Equipment (RPE) into a new plant in Pune, India, tripling the size of its previous facility.
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