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.
For Malvern Instruments Marketing Manager Renate Hessemann, this year’s Powtech exhibition in Nürnberg, Germany, was her last as a member of the Powtech advisory committee on which she has served for almost 20 years.
Testing company Exova has appointed Jean-Michel Sintome as General Manager of its specialist corrosion and materials technology facility in Daventry, England.
PPG Industries and Henan Billions Chemical Co. Ltd. held a ceremony to mark the completion of Henan Billions’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) manufacturing and research facility in the Henan Province of China.
For the third quarter of 2014, Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel) reported positive volume growth and an improvement in return on sales (ROS) from 8.0% to 9.1%.