Duron Inc., Beltsville, MD, and Professional Paint Inc., a group of paint-manufacturing businesses headquartered in Denver, announced the launch of a marketing alliance to sell paint, wallcoverings and sundries to major national accounts.
To no one's surprise, sales and earnings reports from major coatings manufacturers for the fourth quarter and year 2001 showed the effects of economic weakness in U.S. and overseas markets. But signs that the recession had eased its grip could also be detected in some of the numbers.
Reichhold Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, has appointed McCullough & Benton, Atlanta, distributor for Reichhold's Global Coating and Performance Resins business in the southeastern United States.
The Jones-Blair Co. announced an agreement to sell the majority of the company's operating assets to a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of Professional Paint Inc. for an undisclosed purchase price.
William D. Emmons, retired director of Research for Rohm and Haas Company's Polymers, Resins and Monomers business and its Pioneering Research exploratory unit, died December 8, 2001, following a brief illness. He was 77.
Littlejohn & Co., a private investment firm based in Greenwich, CT, has acquired Eliokem, the former North American and European specialty chemicals businesses of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.