PPG Industries, Inc., has unveiled PPG IdeaScapes™, a unified architectural brand identity that encompasses the company's architectural products and services.
COATING 2005, scheduled for September 19 - 22, 2005, in Indianapolis and reported to be the only conference and trade show devoted to the end user of industrial coatings, will feature an entire afternoon where the show floor will be "unopposed."
Union Carbide Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., announced that it will undertake a multiyear spending program to make capital improvements in support of Dow's Solvents & Intermediates business.
On December 10, 2004, Howard Ellerhorst Jr. died at age 84 of heart failure. Mr. Ellerhorst held several high-level management positions in the coatings industry, including his creation of The CHEMARK Consulting Group, Inc.
BASF is launching a new paint-on-demand (POD) manufacturing plant in Monterrey, Mexico, focused on serving coil-coating customers in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon with faster product delivery and an enhanced level of service.
Huber Engineered Materials (HEM), part of J.M. Huber Corporation, announced the launch of its new Web domain, www.hubermaterials.com, which will feature a robust product-identification tool.
Akzo Nobel and the ICCO (the Dutch Inter-Church Organization for Development Cooperation) have officially signed a cooperation agreement to jointly support two HIV/AIDS projects in the Johannesburg area of South Africa.