The United States Conference of Mayors and DuPont Co. recently announced a program to award $1 million to cities that demonstrate lead-safety excellence in 2004.
DuPont Co. announced plans for a major restructuring program that will include employment reductions and other moves aimed at generating $450 million in cost savings this year and $900 million in savings in 2005.
The Nova Paint Club, an international organization of 14 independent coatings companies, has elected Ivan Hurtado, general manager of Inversiones Mundial, president of the club.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. has acquired the colorants product lines and related assets of Accurate Dispersions from Eastman Chemical Co. Terms were not disclosed.
Architectural-coatings manufacturers are urging the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to reconsider the recent enactment of a rule that will prohibit the use of conventional paint thinners such as mineral spirits for cleanup functions involving architectural and industrial maintenance coatings.
Resolution Performance Products L.L.C., reported to be the world's largest producer of epoxy resins, announced a rationalization of certain solid epoxy resin products and a consolidation of its solid epoxy resins product line.
Professional Paint Inc.'s Frazee Industries subsidiary has acquired the non-manufacturing assets of Classic Paint, an Arizona-based company that operates retail stores in Prescott Valley, Prescott, Kingman, and Bullhead City, AZ.
Plasticolors Inc. announced the purchase of the assets of Spartan Color Corp.'s product lines, including the Spartacryl universal color concentrates. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc. said an Oct. 17 flash fire at its Tidewood production facility only affected manufacturing operations for the company's StarBrite vacuum metallized flake products, with no interruption in production of other products.
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