Rose A. Ryntz, manager and Staff technical fellow with Visteon Corp. and a noted authority on coatings for automotive plastics, has been named the winner of the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2003.
DuPont Automotive announced that Marty McQuade, vice president -- DuPont Herberts Automotive Systems, was named global vice president and general manager in charge of worldwide business operations for automotive OEM coatings.
DuPont Co.’s recently commercialized Super Solids low-VOC automotive-coatings technology has been recognized with a U.S. EPA Clean Air Excellence Award, the company announced.
-- Brendan O’Neill resigned as CEO of ICI plc and was succeeded by ICI Paints Chairman and Chief Executive John McAdam, effective immediately, the company announced.
Kerr-McGee Chemical L.L.C. said process modifications in the company's titanium dioxide (TiO2) operations will boost production capacity at two U.S. chloride-process TiO2 manufacturing plants.
ICI Paints announced a five-year agreement with Habitat for Humanity International to become the "national preferred provider" of paint to the organization, which builds homes for low-income people.
Akzo Nobel's Decorative Coatings North America business unit has assumed direct responsibility for North American marketing and manufacturing of the company's Synteko brand of premium wood-floor coatings.
PPG Industries Inc. announced the introduction of the "Optech" clearcoat, a one-component automotive clearcoat designed to offer enhanced mar and environmental etch resistance in automotive OEM applications.