Southern Clay Products said the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has awarded the company $78 million in a patent-infringement judgment against Süd-Chemie Inc.’s Rheologicals business unit.
PPG Industries Inc. Chairman Raymond W. LeBoeuf said the company is poised to exploit a resurgence in economic growth by “building a better mix of businesses, creating breakthrough technologies and improving our customers’ results.”
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has begun preliminary discussions of developing a photochemical reactivity-based regulation for architectural coatings.
Two Ohio investors have purchased the assets of Harrison Paint Corp. from bankruptcy court and said the company has resumed the production of coatings products for various markets.
ICI Paints announced the launch of a “Customer Needs-Based Strategy” focused on industrial maintenance coatings customers, and named Thomas Verghese to the newly created position of vice president and general manager.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced that it will take a fourth-quarter 2000 charge of approximately $352 million for “impairment of long-lived assets” involving goodwill associated with the company’s Cleaning Solutions, Thompson’s and Pratt & Lambert businesses.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced that Robert A. Taylor has joined Sherwin-Williams as president of the Chemical Coatings Business Unit of the Paint Stores Group.
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