Eastman Chemical Co. and Hercules Inc. announced they had again reached an agreement under which Eastman will acquire Hercules’ hydrocarbon resins business and portions of its rosins resins business.
Bayer said its Coatings and Colorants Division has named Landman Chemical and The Cary Co. winners of Bayer’s Best Coatings, Plastics & Specialties 2000 Inorganic Pigment Agent award.
The Color Pigments Manufacturers Association (CPMA) has announced plans for the next in a series of color-pigments conferences, scheduled for April 17-19 in Chicago.
The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have joined a class-action lawsuit against former lead-paint and lead-pigment manufacturers following a California court’s rejection of most of the claims made in an earlier suit filed by Santa Clara County.
Nürnberg, Germany, becomes the world’s largest hub of the coatings industry with a range of products, information and events never seen before at the sixth European Coatings Show, scheduled for April 3–5.