The Magni Group, a manufacturer of coatings for fastener, brake and fuels systems, has acquired Lackfabrik Dr. Schmid, a manufacturer of specialty and industrial coatings based in Schorndorf, Germany.
Resolution Performance Products L.L.C., Houston, announced a capacity increase of 5 kilotons per year for the manufacture of the company’s EPI-REZ waterborne epoxy resins.
Chemical Coatings Inc., a unit of RPM International Inc., announced an agreement with Berlin Scientific of China to manufacture and distribute Chemical Coatings’ finishing products to furniture manufacturers in China.
An appeals panel in Delaware has rejected an NPCA petition seeking the repeal of a recently enacted VOC rule on architectural and industrial maintenance (AIM) coatings in that state, the NPCA reported.
Noveon Inc. has acquired certain water-based overprint-coatings technology and manufacturing assets from Flint Ink Corp. as part of Noveon’s strategy to expand its performance coatings graphic arts product lines.
Rose A. Ryntz, manager and Staff technical fellow with Visteon Corp. and a noted authority on coatings for automotive plastics, has been named the winner of the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2003.
DuPont Automotive announced that Marty McQuade, vice president -- DuPont Herberts Automotive Systems, was named global vice president and general manager in charge of worldwide business operations for automotive OEM coatings.
DuPont Co.’s recently commercialized Super Solids low-VOC automotive-coatings technology has been recognized with a U.S. EPA Clean Air Excellence Award, the company announced.