PPG Industries announced that it is considering a number of “restructuring actions,” including facility and job consolidations in the company’s coatings operations.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) announced the launch of Rockwood Specialties.

Bayer AG said it had appointed the investment banks Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank to advise the company on strategic options.

Air quality in the Los Angeles area has continued a trend of improvement during this year’s recently concluded “smog season.”

PPG Industries said three recently developed coatings products have been named finalists for Automotive News magazine’s 2001 PACE Awards.

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.

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.