Frank N. Jones, professor and director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center at Eastern Michigan University, has been named the recipient of the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2001.

The National Paint & Coatings Association announced that it is revising its Hazardous Materials Identification System (HMIS).

CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colours Industry, has proposed a “harmonized” plan for control of VOCs in decorative (architectural) coatings in European Union countries.

U.S. Coatings recently began production of a range of anticorrosion industrial maintenance product.

The Color Pigments Manufacturers Association (CPMA) has announced plans for the next in a series of color-pigments conferences, scheduled for April 17-19 in Chicago.

Eastman Chemical announced that it will pursue a plan to split the company into two independent public companies.

The Dow Chemical Co. completed its $7.3-billion acquisition of Union Carbide Corp.

The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have joined a class-action lawsuit against former lead-paint and lead-pigment manufacturers following a California court’s rejection of most of the claims made in an earlier suit filed by Santa Clara County.

Nürnberg, Germany, becomes the world’s largest hub of the coatings industry with a range of products, information and events never seen before at the sixth European Coatings Show, scheduled for April 3–5.

Don’t expect to see a radical retreat from existing environmental policies at the federal level following George W. Bush’s inauguration as president.