American Paint & Coatings Journal articles from April 1998

American Paint & Coatings Journal archives from April 1998

Minerals Technologies signs tentative agreement with Rhodia
April 29, 1998... New York - Specialty Minerals Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement with Rhodia Limited, a specialty chemicals company, for the purchase of a precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) manufacturing...

Ferro to acquire majority interest of Ningbo Powder Coatings Company
April 29, 1998... Cleveland - Ferro Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in Ningbo Powder Coatings Company of the Peoples Republic of China. A new company called Ferro Ningbo Powder Coatings Company...

Degussa-Huls merger on track
April 29, 1998... Frankfurt am Main, Germany - The new company created by the merger of Degussa AG and Hills AG will be named Degussa-Hills AG, with seats in Frankfurt am Main and Marl and headquarters in Frankfurt. Huls AG is the incorporating company. These...

Rheometric Scientific, Perkin-Elmer form alliance
April 29, 1998... Piscataway, N.J. - Rheometric Scientific Inc. and Perkin-Elmer have formed a marketing alliance that will broaden the range of solutions available to customers for materials characterization. Under the agreement, Perkin-Elmer's Analytical...

Reichhold to build new plant
April 29, 1998... Research Triangle Park, N.C. - Reichhold plans to build a new manufacturing plant for its specialty pigment dispersion products. The new production and lab facility will be built as an addition to the company's Newark, N.J., plant. The company...

Bayer Corp. invests $25 million in isocyanate facilities
April 29, 1998... Pittsburgh - Bayer Corp. plans to invest $25 million in its Baytown, Texas, coatings facility this year. Some $18 million will be used to expand the production of four of the company's aliphatic isocyanates. The investment will result in...

Russell-Stanley to open new facility
April 29, 1998... Red Bank, N.J. - Russell-Stanley plans to open a dual-purpose drum manufacturing and container recycling facility in the Allentown, Pa., area. The facility will house manufacturing operations for blow-molded plastic containers and a recycling...

Pail palletizing improves bottom line for paint & coatings industry
April 29, 1998... Karen Pettet Paint manufacturers know that hand stacking pails is one of the most difficult jobs in their operations. In many cases, pail volume would not justify automated equipment. Higher production, workplace injuries and increasing...

Ciba names three vice presidents
April 29, 1998... Tarrytown, N.Y. - Patrick Kiernan has been named to the newly created position of vice president, process and lubricant additives for Ciba Specialty Chemicals Additives Division. Ciba's Process Chemicals and Lubricant Additives businesses have...

RPM elects two new vice presidents
April 29, 1998... Medina, Ohio - Charles G. Pauli has been elected vice president of technology by the RPM Inc. board of directors. Pauli had been president since 1988 of Kop-Coat Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RPM, and will continue as president of the...

Witco names Outstanding Scientist for 1997
April 29, 1998... Greenwich, Conn. - Giao Nguyen has been named Witco Corp;s Outstanding Scientist for 1997. Nguyen was honored for his notable contributions to improved process and technology in the production of certain of the company's industrial surfactants...

Creanova names colorants plant managers
April 29, 1998... Somerset, N.J. - Probyn Forbes has been named plant manager of Creanova's colorants plant in Lockland, Ohio. He will be responsible for the startup and operations of the newly expanded facility. Previously, he was the plant manager for Huls...

Schomp appointed marketing director for Lonza
April 29, 1998... Fair Lawn, N.J. - Mark Schomp has been named director of marketing and sales for Lonza. His initial focus will be on the management of marketing, sales and related personnel of the specialty alumina products group for North America. Since...

Economy sends mixed messages: retail sales fall; inflation remains flat
April 29, 1998... Mary Schaefer Benke As the Dow Jones Industrial flirts with the record 9000 mark, other economic indicators tell a slightly different story. The U.S. Commerce Department said on April 14 that sales at U.S. retail stores fell in March for the...

VOC limits: A coatings industry update
April 29, 1998... Ellen Tenenbaum and Brian McGill EPA plans to finalize its rule on VOC limits for architectural coatings in August 1998. Despite a Clean Air Act deadline of March 1997 for finalizing the rule, the agency is still analyzing and developing...

The printer - a specialist supplier
April 29, 1998... Michael Born The paint and coatings industry relies on specialist suppliers. Sources of raw materials and supplies include specialists for pigments, chemicals, fluids (latex and oils) and pails & cans. The one specialist that is often...

Hercules establishes alliance with Champion
April 15, 1998... Wilmington, Del. - Hercules Inc. and Champion International Corporation announced that they have established a long-term strategic alliance in the crude tall oil (CTO) and crude sulfate turpentine (CST) fractionation and derivatization...

Dow Chemical purchases CELACOL brand cellulose ethers
April 15, 1998... Midland, Mich. - The Dow Chemical Company announced that it has purchased the CELACOL range of water soluble polymers from Courtaulds Chemicals (Holdings) Limited. Transfer begins immediately and is expected to be completed over the next few...

JLM, Solutia sign new phenol agreement
April 15, 1998... Tampa, Fla. - JLM Industries Inc. announced that it has entered into a major long-term partnership agreement with Solutia Inc. on Solutia's new phenol plant in Pensacola, Fla. JLM was selected from a group of several interested parties, both...

Weskem Hall sells Weskem division
April 15, 1998... Houston - Weskem Hall, a distributor of specialty chemicals in the Midwest, plans to sell its energy interests, the Weskem division, to Van Waters and Rogers Inc. of Kirkland, Wash. The Hall division will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of...

NPCA companies support expanded service program
April 15, 1998... Washington - Members of the National Paint & Coatings Association are helping expand the Picture It Painted community service program by donating products and money to help renew communities nationwide. To date, 33 companies have pledged their...

ICI Surfactants to expand Atlas Point
April 15, 1998... Wilmington, Del. - ICI Surfactants plans to expand its Atlas Point plant in New Castle, Del., doubling the capacity for specialty alkoxylates, primarily nonionic surfactants. The increased production capacity will support customers in the...

National Starch appoints chief operating officer
April 15, 1998... Bridgewater, N.J. - Walter F. Schlauch has been named chief operating officer of National Starch and Chemical Co. Schlauch, 56, joined National in 1963 as a chemist in resin research. In 1980, he became a divisional vice president and in 1986...

Record high in new home sales means good news for coatings manufacturers
April 15, 1998... Mary Schaefer Benke Sales of new U.S. homes rose to a record high in February, according to a report issued by the Commerce Department. Factors cited for the increase include long-term interest rates and unusually warm weather in much of the...

Selecting the most suitable amino crosslinker
April 15, 1998... Joel Gummeson and Dennis Erickson Amino crosslinkers are nitrogen-containing chemicals with functional groups allowing them to cross-link the primary resin(s) and enhance the coating film properties. Amino crosslinker resins can be used in a...