General Motors is making a $600-million investment in its Fairfax Assembly and Stamping Plant, including the construction of a new 450,000-square-foot paint shop, the installation of a new stamping press and other upgrades.
Cathay Industries Group, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of iron oxide and chrome oxide pigments, is investing in a joint venture with chemical manufacturer Tonghua Group to build a new production plant for yellow, red and black iron oxide pigments in Tongling, Anhui Province, China.
BYK-Gardner - worldwide partner of the automotive, paint and plastic industries for quality control of color, appearance and physical properties – is providing two posters for technical use: a Color Theory poster and a Viscosity Conversion Chart poster.
Purdue University researchers have received a five-year $14.5 million National Science Foundation grant to expand the widely used nanoHUB.org online science and engineering gateway.
PPG Industries has closed the separation of its commodity chemicals business and merger of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Eagle Spinco Inc., with a subsidiary of Georgia Gulf Corp.
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has created a dedicated electronic materials group to integrate products and technologies acquired from Spraylat Corp., Mt. Vernon, NY.