The Canadian paint and coatings industry now leads the world in post-consumer paint recycling with a waste diversion program in every province of Canada.

The industrial resin producer Resinall Rütgers Resins GmbH has changed its name to RÜTGERS Resins GmbH.

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Kansas State University have demonstrated a spray-on mixture of carbon nanotubes and ceramic that has unprecedented ability to resist damage while absorbing laser light.

Atlas Material Testing Technology, a leader in weathering technology and services, has launched www.flammability.atlas-mts.com.

Materials and biophysical characterization company Malvern Instruments Ltd., Malvern, UK, and NETZSCH Grinding & Dispersing, a manufacturer of industrial wet and dry grinding, mixing, dispersing, and kneading equipment, have entered into a cooperative marketing agreement.

PPG Industries celebrated the opening of its new automotive OEM (original equipment manufacturer) coatings development and application center in Tianjin, China.

Royal DSM has opened its newly constructed manufacturing plant for KhepriCoat^® anti-reflective coating at the Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands.

Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, will build a new pigment preparations plant in Indonesia in a series of investments to strengthen on-the-ground support for customers in China, India and Indonesia.

Wacker Chemie AG officially ramped up its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Nanjing site (Jiangsu province, China).

Consistent with the company’s environmental initiative, Jotun GreenSteps, Jotun has announced plans to phase out lead chromates from all paint and coatings formulations worldwide.