SOUTHCHEM has been appointed a distributor for BASF Corp.’s Specialty Products Group.

Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes announced its entry into the European marketplace with the launch of its “Sunfire” line of finishes.

The use of conductive polymers as anticorrosion pigments is the subject of a recently completed study conducted at Wollongong University in Australia.

Millennium Inorganic Chemicals has appointed Ashland Canada distributor of Millennium’s Tiona titanium dioxide pigments in Canada.

McCormick Paints announced the introduction of NATURAL ODOR FREE.

Loos & Dilworth has been appointed distributor of Elf Atochem’s line of chlorotoluene and bromine derivatives.

TotalFina of France successfully concluded a bid to acquire Elf Aquitaine in an agreement that would create the world’s fourth-largest oil company.

Q-Lab Weathering Research Services has acquired Solar Testing Service.

PPG Industries Italia S.r.l., has acquired a majority stake in Bellaria S.p.A.

J. Stilling Enterprises has acquired the Kenneth M. Rice Co.