The EPA and the Department of Justice announced that Lowe’s Home Centers, one of the nation’s largest home improvement retailers, agreed to implement a comprehensive, corporate-wide compliance program at its over 1,700 stores nationwide to ensure that the contractors it hires to perform work minimize lead dust from home renovation activities.

AkzoNobel's pioneering Intersleek 1100SR foul-release technology has won the Clean Shipping category at the 2014 Seatrade Awards.

Ace Hardware, the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the industry, and Valspar Paint^® have unveiled Helpful is Beautiful™, a new advertising campaign created to introduce consumers to the new Paint Studio at Ace.

Polychem Powder Coatings has launched its new Urban Illusion Collection. The collection combines modern, trend-driven colors with a patterned effect to give the illusion of texture, when they are actually smooth to the touch.

Washington Mills has created an interactive surface-finishing guide to assist customers with selecting the correct grit size of BLASTITE for their surface-finishing applications.

Fabric finishing company TSG Finishing LLC has introduced a new program called QuickFinish that is designed to offer expedited service for stain repellent and backing treatments.

Jervis B. Webb Co., a subsidiary of Daifuku Webb Holding Co., hosted its 31^st annual Unibilt/Unibeam conveyor distributor conference in early April in New Orleans.

Wheelabrator Group reached a major milestone during the first quarter of 2014 with 1,000,000 hours without a lost-time incident.

J.D. Power has ranked Benjamin Moore highest in interior paint customer satisfaction in 2014.

Washing a car can be a chore and a costly one at that. In response, Nissan in Europe has begun tests on innovative paint technology that repels mud, rain and everyday dirt, meaning drivers may never have to clean their car again.