Eric Von Knipe, a California businessman and entrepreneur, has acquired the Morwear paint brand from Smiland Paint Co. and has formed Morwear Manufacturing Inc.
The Protech Chemicals Group, based in Montreal, has acquired the Belgium-based powder-coatings manufacturer Oxyplast N.V. Financial terms were not announced.
BASF Coatings AG announced the formal opening of the company's new Distribution Center in Munster, a facility described by BASF Coatings CEO Berthold Tillmann as "an extremely important and effective node in our European production and distribution network."
Stanislaw (Stanley) B. Skora, a developer of additives for powder coatings and founder of Estron Chemical Inc., died May 27 in New York after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
Wacker Chemie GmbH announced an agreement to sell its ADDID surface coating additives business to Degussa AG's Oligomers & Silicones business unit. Terms were not disclosed.
Consorcio Comex S.A de C.V. (Comex), reported to be Mexico's largest coatings manufacturer, will acquire Professional Paint Inc., the operator of a group of regional architectural-coatings companies in the western United States and Canada, under a merger agreement announced by Colorado-based Professional Paint.
The NPCA and its California Paint Council are "intensely engaged" in an effort to scale back the state of California's "Environmentally Preferable Products" Database initiative.
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