AkzoNobel is part of a major Dutch partnership working with Canada's Enerkem to explore the use of waste streams as a feedstock for chemical production and the development of waste-to-chemicals facilities.
For more than 130 years, Moran Towing Corp.’s fleet of tugboats had been recognized for the signature white “M” painted on their stacks. This October, company President Ted Tregurtha and a donation of PITT-TECH® Plus marine paint from PPG Industries distributor Armorica Sales collaborated to adorn the well-known industry emblem in pink on 100 tugboats to promote breast cancer awareness.
PPG Industries has finalized the acquisition of Consorcio Comex S.A. de C.V. (Comex), an architectural coatings company with headquarters in Mexico City, in a transaction valued at $2.3 billion.
Three facilities operated by PPG Industries’ aerospace business have been recognized by Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Aerospace Systems sector with 2013 Platinum Source Preferred supplier awards.
Eric Houze, Research Fellow at Axalta Coating Systems, and Bavand Keshavarz, a Ph.D. candidate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), presented the results of a joint research program on new rheological measurement technologies that can be applied to sprayable paints.
PPG Industries’ North American architectural coatings business has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Westmoreland Supply, an independent architectural paint distributor headquartered in Pittsburgh.
PPG Industries and Henan Billions Chemical Co. Ltd. held a ceremony to mark the completion of Henan Billions’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) manufacturing and research facility in the Henan Province of China.
RPM International Inc. announced that unusually strong performance in its prior-year first quarter dampened comparative results for the fiscal 2015 first quarter that ended August 31, 2014, but that the company is maintaining its full-year earnings guidance for fiscal 2015, which was issued July 28, 2014.