Beckers group announced a global organizational change on October 20, 2014.

Dover Corp.’s fluids segment has realigned its pumps businesses along product line technologies into three separate operating companies — Pump Solutions, Finder and Maag.

Elemica has hired Keith D. Schneck as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer.

Vencorex is expanding its capacity of aliphatic isocyanates, strengthening the company’s position globally.

Three facilities operated by PPG Industries’ aerospace business have been recognized by Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Aerospace Systems sector with 2013 Platinum Source Preferred supplier awards.

Officials with U.S. Zinc announced the company has completed the planned expansion project of its domestic zinc oxide plant in Millington, TN, ahead of schedule.

3E Company, a provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, and Locus Technologies, a provider of cloud-based environmental compliance and EH&S management software, announced a strategic collaboration.

Eric Houze, Research Fellow at Axalta Coating Systems, and Bavand Keshavarz, a Ph.D. candidate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), presented the results of a joint research program on new rheological measurement technologies that can be applied to sprayable paints.

The International Paint & Printing Ink Council (IPPIC) is working with the UN’s Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (GAELP) to promote the establishment of appropriate national regulatory frameworks to stop the manufacture, import, export, sale and use of lead paints and products coated with lead paints.

PPG Industries’ North American architectural coatings business has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Westmoreland Supply, an independent architectural paint distributor headquartered in Pittsburgh.