H. Morgan Smith, president of Van Horn, Metz & Co., Inc., and Tom Castorina, president of Seaboard Sales, Inc., have announced that Van Horn, Metz acquired Seaboard Sales, a specialty raw materials distributor serving the Metro New York/New Jersey region.
The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., announced that Horacio Percossi has been named business vice president for the Specialty Chemicals business portfolio.
Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, (PMSL), PALMYRA, Pa., will be exhibiting at the 79th Annual WEFTEC Technical Exhibition and Conference, October 21-25, 2006.
Cytec Industries Inc., West Paterson, N.J., announced the manufacturing startup for select MACRYNAL® high-solids acrylic polyols and VIACRYL® water-based acrylics at the company's Langley, S.C., production facility.
For the third time since 2002, BASF's Coatings Division in Mexico has received the prestigious General Motors Supplier of the Year award for outstanding performance as an automotive-coatings supplier to GM in Mexico.
Frost & Sullivan recently selected Scientific Dust Collectors, Alsip/Chicago, as the recipient of the 2006 U.S. Industrial Air Filtration Technology Leadership of the Year Award in recognition of its ability to provide superior technology solutions for the U.S industrial air-pollution control market.
Akzo Nobel, Arnhem, the Netherlands, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ningbo Chemical Industry Zone (NCIZ) that paves the way for the creation of a new chemicals multi-site in China.
The Alliance for the Polyurethanes Industry (API), Arlington, Va., has announced the winners of the Polyurethanes 2006 Technical Conference Best Paper Presentation and Best Poster awards.
BASF, Charlotte, N.C., has been awarded Behr Process Corporation's 2005 Supplier Technology Innovation Award, recognizing BASF as The Technology Leader in acrylic dispersions used to formulate architectural coatings.