Rohm and Haas Co. and OMNOVA Solutions Inc. announced plans to form a global joint-venture business to market latex binders, synthetic pigments and specialty additives for coatings applications in the paper and paperboard industry.
The Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleveland, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., New York, announced an agreement to market a new line of paints sold under the Martha Stewart Signature brand name.
Hoover Color Corp., Hiwassee, VA, has appointed Kohl Marketing Inc., Roswell, GA, sales representative for Hoover Color's pigment product line in Florida.
Akzo Nobel N.V. formally opened a new production plant in Suzhou, China, near Shanghai, for the manufacture of automotive-refinish, powder and transportation coatings for the growing Chinese market.
Clariant AG, Basel, Switzerland, announced the start of production at a new organic-pigment plant in China operated by Clariant Pigments (Tianjin) Ltd.
Premier Mill Corp., Reading, PA, a unit of Lightnin, announced that its line of processing equipment has been integrated with the product line of Lightnin's Cox Machinery unit.
BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany, announced the consolidation of its Colorants for Coatings and Coatings Raw Materials business units into a new operating sector called Performance Chemicals for Coatings.
BASF Corp.'s automotive coatings manufacturing plant in Belvidere, NJ, has been accepted into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Performance Track, a program that is designed to motivate and reward top environmental performance.