CREANOVA has launched an e-commerce Internet site for the company’s Colorants and Biocides Division.

Clariant GmbH has completed a modernization program at its high-performance polycyclic pigments grinding plant.

Two global chemicals and coatings giants have signaled their intent to exit the pharmaceuticals segment.

Valspar and Lilly Industries completed the merger of the two companies.

ICI India announced that it will sell its polyurethanes and motors and industrial paints businesses in India for approximately $21.5 million.

Howard Jerome, a past president of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) and former technical director of the old Spatz Paint business in St. Louis, died Dec. 8, 2000, in St. Louis.

An alliance of air-quality regulatory officials has issued a suggested “model rule” for control of VOC emissions from architectural and industrial-maintenance (AIM) coatings.

Investor Warren Buffett has made his first venture into the coatings manufacturing industry with a bid to acquire the owner of one of the oldest and best-known brands in the architectural paint business — Benjamin Moore & Co.

Sherwin-Williams announced the start-up of operations at the company’s Aerospace Service and Training Facility.

Celanese Chemicals announced that it will commercialize t-butyl acetate.