PPG Industries announced several executive appointments that are effective August 1.

The D.B. Becker Co. Inc., Clinton, NJ, has appointed Brian Morris to be its New England Sales Representative.

After reporting a decline in earnings for the second quarter, chemical company DuPont is considering the sale of its Performance Chemical segment, which includes its Titanium Technologies business

Fire broke out at chemical company Lonza Inc.’s Williamsport, PA, plant on Sunday, July 21, according to an article in the “Williamsport Sun-Gazette.”

The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), Midland, MI, is being sued by paint and coatings manufacturer Akzo Nobel NV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument, an "instrumented nanoscale indenter", that makes sensitive measurements of the mechanical properties of thin films - ranging from auto-body coatings to microelectronic devices — and biomaterials.

Sun Chemical Performance Pigments has made an investment in Brazil and Latin America by expanding its dedicated regional sales and service team, local warehousing, and lab support for its pigment products dedicated to the coatings, cosmetics, inks, plastics and specialties markets.

PPG Industries has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility for the production of heavy-duty equipment coatings in Tianjin, China.

McCullough & Associates was awarded the Bayer CAS Distributor StraCo Award for 2012.

OMNOVA Solutions announced an investment to repurpose, or redirect, excess styrene butadiene (SB) latex capacity at its plant in Mogadore, OH, to the production of styrene acrylic and other specialty emulsion polymer chemistries.