Elementis plc, following a Pigments business manufacturing restructuring review, will scale down production at its Elementis Pigments production plant at East St Louis, Ill., effective immediately. Around 100 jobs will be affected.
EXEL Industries, a European company, has merged its two U.S. operations under the new name EXEL North America, Inc., responsible for EXEL Industries' Canadian, U.S. and Mexican operations.
During this year's International Metal Decorators Association Annual Convention held on May 19th in Chicago, the winners of the 9th Annual "Excellence in Quality" were announced.
The lingering smell of a recently painted room is a thing of the past with Dunn-Edwards' newest product, Ecoshield™, a line of paint that emits very little odor.
Cytec Surface Specialties, a leading global supplier of resin technology for the coatings and adhesives industries, has completed the renovation of its powder coatings applications lab in Smyrna, Ga.
The Dow Chemical Co. will further extend part of its polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (PMDI) operations at its LaPorte, Texas, facility, while the company's new 500-million-lb PMDI facility in Freeport, Texas, continues its startup process.
The Valspar Corp., Minneapolis, a leading coatings manufacturer, has completed the acquisition of Samuel Cabot Inc., a privately owned manufacturer of exterior and interior stains and finishes.
Artomation Corp., a supplier of automatic paint machines for a wide range of U.S. customers, has contracted to supply its PanelPro machine to PPG China.
Frost & Sullivan presented Alistagen Corporation with the 2005 Technology Innovation Award for the company's development of the innovative anti-microbial, prophylactic coating technology known as Caliwel™.