Premier Mill Corp. announced a number of upgrades to the company’s Customer Testing Laboratory.

Sartomer announced the launch of a new Specialty Polymers group.

Kerr-McGee Chemical L.L.C. has appointed The M.F. Cachat Co. distributor of titanium dioxide products.

BASF AG announced that all of its OEM coatings production sites in North America have achieved ISO 14001 certification.

Dover Chemical announced the start of production of calcium stearate and zinc stearate at a new manufacturing plant.

CPSCOLOR B.V. said it has entered into a business alliance with Rohm and Haas.

The PPG Industries Inc. product team responsible for the development of the company’s Enviro-Prime 2000 lead-free anticorrosion electrodeposition coatings for automotive application has received a Three Rivers Environmental Award.

The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Polymers and High-Performance Materials announced the development of a “revolutionary” paint product.

The five major suppliers of automotive-refinish coatings are under investigation for possible price fixing in a probe by U.S. antitrust authorities.

RadTech International North America issued a call for papers for the RADTECH 2002 conference.