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Dunn-Edwards Corp. plans to build a 40,000-square-foot coatings technology center on its Los Angeles campus.

PPG Industries has announced plans to restructure two of its business units, closing facilities in the Netherlands and Canada.

Dow Izolan, the joint-venture company between the Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) and Izolan, has broken ground on a polyurethane-systems manufacturing facility in Vladimir, Russia.

Eastman Chemical Co. has appointed Univar Canada Ltd. as its exclusive distributor for its domestic and imported LTL hydrocarbon resin business.

Pilot Chemical Co. has achieved the listing of eight surfactant products with CleanGredients®.

The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) is exploring divestiture options for its Clear Lake Operations acrylic acid and esters and UCAR Emulsion Systems specialty latex business in North America.

C.L. Hauthaway & Sons Corp., Lynn, MA, and Interpolymer Corp., Canton, MA, will collaborate in marketing Hauthaway’s line of Hauthane® polyurethane dispersions to the architectural and industrial coatings markets in Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa.

Rockwood Color Pigments & Services Division has announced a new distribution network in the United States and Canada for the full line of Rockwood Pigments’ products, including Elementis’ pigments products, which Rockwood acquired in 2007.

Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co., has received approval from China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection for environmental impact assessments (EIA) for plans to build a 100,000 MTPA liquid epoxy resin (LER) plant and a 150,000 MTPA glycerine-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.

BASF has been recognized as the leading chemical company in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World).