ABI, New York, a global leader in business-to-business marketing public relations, and China Knowledge, Singapore, a premier provider of trade and investment research and services to foreign investors in China, announced a strategic partnership to expand each company's services worldwide.
The State Attorneys Generals (AGs) - exercising their compliance authority under the "Lead Exposure Warnings and Education and Training Programs Agreement between State Attorneys General and the National Paint and Coatings Association, Inc. (NPCA)" - have identified a specific concern that the point-of-sale brochures were not found at the select places monitored.
Para-Chem recently announced partnerships with Azalea Color Co., Atlanta, and Durr Marketing Associates, Inc., Pittsburgh, to distribute its acrylic resins.
For the second time since 2003, BASF Coatings has been named a General Motors Supplier of the Year for exceptional performance as a global supplier of automotive OEM coatings.
Valspar has agreed to acquire Samuel Cabot Inc., Newburyport, Mass., the 128-year-old, privately owned manufacturer of exterior and interior stains and finishes.
Chemcraft Holdings Corp. has entered into an agreement with Inchem Holdings International Ltd. The agreement provides Chemcraft with a minority position in Inchem along with an arrangement to exchange product technologies.
Creo Inc. and XINK Laboratories Ltd. presented a new class of secure flexographic radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna printing inks at the PISEC 6th World Product & Image Security Convention, held in Vienna, Austria, recently.
John Deere Welland Works, Welland, Ontario, has recognized BASF as a "Partner Supplier," the highest level in the John Deere "Achieving Excellence" supplier program.
Grace Davison, a business unit of W.R. Grace & Co., has increased its production capacity for SHIELDEX® anti-corrosive pigments by more than 50% at its site in Worms, Germany.
Borden Chemical, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, and Resolution Performance Products LLC (RPP), Houston, jointly announced plans to merge, together with Resolution Specialty Materials LLC (RSM), Carpentersville, Ill., to form the world's largest producer of thermosetting resins.