- At an inauguration ceremony held in March in Newport, Del., Ciba Specialty Chemicals reinforced its dedication to the coatings industry in the NAFTA region by opening a new technical center.

ESA Biosciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Magellan Biosciences, Inc., has won the Silver Editors' Award at the 2005 Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition (PITTCON) for its breakthrough Corona Charged Aerosol Detector for HPLC.

BASF will invest $60 million in its Pasadena, Texas, site, just a year after acquiring the site from Sunoco.

Horiba Instruments, Inc., has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for Dispersion Technology Inc.'s line of acoustic and electroacoustic particle size and zeta potential analyzers for the North and South American markets.

CB Mills has announced the appointment of two new representatives

The Eighth International Coatings for Plastics Symposium, a 21⁄2- day meeting that delivers the latest advancements in coatings for plastics technology, will be held June 6-8, 2005, at the MSU Management Education Center in Troy, Mich.

Ciba Specialty Chemicals and the Liucheng Group have established the joint venture Zhejiang Ruicheng Effect Pigment Co., Ltd.

Reynolds Industries, Inc., announced that Clayton Equipment would represent the Reynolds' sales effort in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi.

P.D. Lovett & Co. offers "Protective Coatings and Linings for Petrochemical and Chemical Facilities: An Industry Characterization and Analysis of the End User."

DS Containers (DSC), a subsidiary of Japan's Daiwa Can Company, has moved its headquarters to a new manufacturing facility in Batavia, Ill.