DuPont Co. has boosted its ownership stakes in the DuPont Red Lion joint-venture automotive-coatings businesses in China in moves the company said "reinforce its position as the leading coatings supplier in the growing Chinese automotive industry."
This Old House Ventures Inc., the producer of the award-winning television program and a magazine title of the same name, announced an agreement with ICI Paints to manufacture a line of paints carrying the "This Old House" brand.
Rohm and Haas Co. said an 18-month review of an "apparently high number" of brain tumors among its employees found no significant links among the cases that would suggest a common cause, such as chemical exposure.
DuPont Co. announced a revamped organizational structure that the company said is designed to implement a series of customer- and market-focused growth and productivity actions announced on Dec. 1, 2003.
BASF has completed its acquisition of Sunoco Inc.'s phthalate plasticizer business, a purchase that includes Sunoco's Pasadena, TX, site, its phthalic anhydride and oxo alcohol manufacturing plants, and the phthalate esters, 2-ethylhexanol, and phthalic anhydride businesses.
Huntsman Tioxide announced plans to relocate its North American sales-management, supply-chain and technical-services operations to Huntsman Corp.'s corporate offices in Houston, TX, and to close its Warrenville, IL, and Toronto offices.
The Dow Chemical Co. has completed the acquisition of Celanese AG's acrylates business, a deal that includes Celanese's acrylates-production assets at Clear Lake, TX, and a product line that includes crude acrylic acid, glacial acrylic acid, ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl acrylate, and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.