BASF Coatings AG and the Treffert Group of Germany announced agreements under which BASF Coatings will acquire Treffert's Foil Coatings business and Treffert will purchase BASF's Fibre Board Coatings affiliates in Spain and Italy.
DuPont Co. has boosted its ownership stakes in the DuPont Red Lion joint-venture automotive-coatings businesses in China in moves the company said "reinforce its position as the leading coatings supplier in the growing Chinese automotive industry."
This Old House Ventures Inc., the producer of the award-winning television program and a magazine title of the same name, announced an agreement with ICI Paints to manufacture a line of paints carrying the "This Old House" brand.
The NPCA has filed comments urging the Environmental Protection Agency to expedite the removal of the solvent ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE) from the agency's list of hazardous air pollutants.
Rohm and Haas Co. said an 18-month review of an "apparently high number" of brain tumors among its employees found no significant links among the cases that would suggest a common cause, such as chemical exposure.
DuPont Co. announced a revamped organizational structure that the company said is designed to implement a series of customer- and market-focused growth and productivity actions announced on Dec. 1, 2003.
BASF has completed its acquisition of Sunoco Inc.'s phthalate plasticizer business, a purchase that includes Sunoco's Pasadena, TX, site, its phthalic anhydride and oxo alcohol manufacturing plants, and the phthalate esters, 2-ethylhexanol, and phthalic anhydride businesses.