LORD Corp., manufacturer of MetalJacket brand coatings, has added two new MetalJacket custom coaters.

Innovative Powder Coatings, LLC, has expanded into a 4,000-sq-ft warehouse adjacent to an existing manufacturing plant to accommodate sales growth and forecasts.

Hempel shareholders in the Middle East have agreed upon a merger, which will consolidate the company's regional strengths in the marine and decorative paint markets.

Rotex, Inc., a global supplier of screening equipment, announced the opening of its Japan and Germany offices - a key move in the company's growing competitive position in both the Asian and European screening equipment markets.

Wolstenholme International Inc. has announced that Tartan Color & Chemical, Inc., is the company's exclusive representative of metallic ink and pigment and carbon black dispersion products throughout Canada.

ANGUS Chemical Co. has completed a multimillion-dollar investment project at its Sterlington, La., production site.

William Wilson, 88, former vice president of Van Horn Metz Co., Conshohocken, Pa., passed away in Baltimore on August 16.

Carl Archer, a 36-year veteran of the coatings industry and a territory sales manager for ECKART America, has passed away.

Philip L. Pesola, executive vice president of Delta Laboratories, Inc., Ocala, Fla., received the Industry Achievement Award during the National Paint & Coatings Association's (NPCA) 2005 Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Oct. 23-25.

Two leading manufacturers of product measurement and quality control equipment - EGS Gauging Inc. of Billerica, Mass., and NDC Infrared Engineering, Inc., of Irwindale, Calif. - have been awarded funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop new technologies that reduce industry's reliance on radioactive isotopes.