DS Containers' two-piece steel can took first place in the aerosol category at the International Cans of the Year competition held in Barcelona, Spain, in October.
Soliant, LLC, Lancaster, S.C., manufacturer of Fluorex(R) paint film, has named Leonard E. Poole to the position of automotive technical sales manager.
As part of a consistent strategic and operative alignment, the Division Effect Pigments (ECKART Group) of ALTANA Chemie AG, Wesel, Germany, will be closing the production site for aluminum pastes at Porto Marghera near Venice, Italy, at the end of 2006 and relocating production to the existing European sites.
Tronox Incorporated announced that the Tiwest synthetic rutile plant in Chandala, Western Australia, restarted production, and its daily production has returned to pre-shutdown levels.
Coatings customers in Brazil have named Cytec Industries Inc. as the best supplier of UV-curable raw materials for the second time in a row, according to a biennial survey conducted by Tintas & Vernizes, a coatings magazine in Latin America.
The grand-opening ceremony for the new $18 million manufacturing facility for Stahl Coatings and Fine Chemicals (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. took place on September 8, 2006, immediately following the All China Leather Fair.
Rohm and Haas Company celebrated the official opening of the China Research and Development Center (CRDC) on Sept. 20, 2006, in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New Area, Shanghai.
Flowserve Corp., a global provider of fluid-motion and control products and services, announced that Bruno Schiavello, director of fluid dynamics in the technology department of Flowserve Pumps, has won the 2006 Fluid Machinery Design Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Nemoto and United Mineral & Chemical Corporation (UMC) recently initiated patent litigation, as part of their active policing program, against three corporate infringers who were selling products sourced from China.