Atlas Weathering Services Group (AWSG), a division of Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC, has announced a suite of value-added services available with every test program at no additional costs.
DuPont Automotive Systems will consolidate its two coatings laboratories located in Southeastern Michigan into its Mt. Clemens, Mich., automotive coatings manufacturing plant and research facility.
CPS Color, supplier of tinting systems, has appointed Akvastrims SIA as its agent for servicing its COROB equipment for customers in the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Soliant, LLC, received the Environmental Award in the Emerging Technologies category at the GPEC 2006, February 28 - March 2, in Atlanta, for its innovative, commercially adopted paint-film process that reduces emissions to the environment by 98% when compared to traditional vehicle painting.
BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany; Huntsman Corp., The Woodlands, Texas; and a group of Chinese companies - Shanghai Hua Yi (Group Company), Sinopec Shanghai Gao Qiao Petrochemical Corp. and Shanghai Chloro-Alkali Chemical Co. Ltd. - are considering the construction of a new MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) plant in China.
Akzo Nobel plans to create two independent companies, Coatings/Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, with an intended minority initial public offering of its Pharmaceuticals business to be called Organon Biosciences.
UCAR Emulsion Systems (UES), a global business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, announced the succesful startup of its next-generation latex facility at St. Charles Operations (Hahnville, La.).
Finnaren & Haley, Inc., a client of Deacom, Inc., Wayne, Pa, is in the process of switching its retail stores to the DEACOM Point-of-Sale (POS) system.
Effective December 2005, Los Angeles-based paint manufacturer Diversified Coatings, Inc., (DCI) acquired the Morwear® brand of architectural paint and coatings products from Morwear Manufacturing, Inc. (MMI) in a transaction approved by Judge Ellen Carroll in United States Bankruptcy Court.
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