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Jul 2, 2009 - Omnova shows Q2 profit, Ashland to sell Drew Marine, CSIRO whips up new fireproof paint and much more... by Mark Drukenbrod

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. In our ephemera file, it seems that our images of the Parthenon as a stark, white structure will have to change. Researchers have found the first evidence of colored paints covering its elaborate pediment sculpture. Giovanni Verri, a researcher at the British Museum in London, developed an imaging technique that is ultra-sensitive to traces of an ancient pigment called Egyptian blue. He reported on his use of photo-induced luminescence imaging at the recent SPIE Europe Optical Metrology symposium held in Munich. In more current news...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Earth-shattering news is in short supply, but there are still a few things to keep on your radar screen since Tuesday...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Quite a bit has happened since Thursday, so let's get on with the news.Paint and coatings maker Valspar Corp. said last week that it will offer $300 million in senior notes due in June 2019. The company may use proceeds from the offering to pay down its commercial paper borrowing and loans under its existing bank credit facilities...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. From our paint ephemera department, US Customs and Border Protection officials in El Paso last week made headlines with what they called an "unusual" drug bust. More than 1,500 pounds of marijuana were seized; among it, some of it bundled in a paint can. The fact that the paint can made it unusual (or newsworthy, for that matter,) says either nobody wants to open a paint can and risk exposure to what is inside, or our CBP folks are not really creative thinkers. Troubling either way, but here's the news since Tuesday. (1 Member Reaction) 

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. We're chock-a-block full for this issue, so let's get going.

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Major industry news has been thin on the ground since Tuesday, so we'll take this occasion to be brief.

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Before we get started, here's an update on the lead paint on toys problem of a few years ago. Toymaker Mattel agreed last Friday to pay $2.3 million in civil penalties for violating a federal lead paint ban that resulted in the recall of millions of in 2007. While agreeing to the penalty, Mattel and Fisher-Price denied violating any laws, the CPSC said. Now, on to the coatings news...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Significant news is hard to find for this issue, so we'll take this opportunity to be brief.Graphic Packaging International Inc., a unit of Graphic Packaging Holding Co., said Tuesday it closed the sale of its Handschy inks, coatings and varnishes business to Sun Chemical. Financial terms were not disclosed when the news was first disclosed last month...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. One thing you have to say about the current international business environment - there's never a dull moment. General Motors entered into bankruptcy this week, Chrysler is about to emerge from the same, owned primarily by FIAT...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Let's get right to the news.Graphic Packaging Holding Co.'s Graphic Packaging International, Inc. subsidiary said it has entered into an agreement to divest some of the assets and liabilities of its Handschy inks, coatings and varnishes business to Sun Chemical. According to Graphic Packaging, the parties plan to close on the transaction at an undetermined date...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. While a holiday kept us from you last Thursday, the industry just kept churning along, so we have much to present this issue...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. The world economy continues to be sluggish, and a few items in this issue are the obvious upshot of that condition...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Financials continue to dribble in, with a few surprises in the group. We're full-up for this issue, so let's get started...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. We have good and bad news in this issue, let's get the bad news out of the way first...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. News is starting to slow from financials, so we have a chance to catch up on some news we didn’t have room for last week...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. In this time of swine flu, it seems ironic that we should experience the "pigs flying" phenomenon this earnings season. While most expected BASF to continue some form of profitability, almost nobody expected a profit from Dow. What can I say? Pigs flew. Here's the story...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. There is a bit of everything in this issue, so let's get started. (1 Member Reaction) 

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Lately I’m feeling like the grim reaper for reporting the losses that the industry is racking up, but put in the perspective of industry in general, we are indeed fortunate. It is also increasingly important in times like these to know what is going on financially in the industry, so here is the news...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Hard economic times bring on strange behavior among financial types. Although Sherwin-Williams and PPG posted quarters that are not that great, they beat the market's expectations - and both companies were rewarded with a mini stock value run-up...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Despite the dour outlook of the economy, deals are being done in our industry, along with new ones in the announcement stage...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Spring has finally arrived in Pennsylvania, USA, after fits and starts of wind and snow, which means that homeowners will soon break hibernation to find their paint cans - none too soon for the industry. Here's the latest...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. The industry, I suspect, is a little played-out in the area of business news, but as always, research continues at a fiscally-respectable pace, so this issue contains news of some interesting technical developments...

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. April fools day is over, and it appears once again safe to get news from the Internet, and there is a lot of it to be had...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Sorry for the missing early week edition, but the hive at SpecialChem has been very busy, indeed. You will notice new looks and services everywhere, changing to keep pace with the industry. But here is the news, ranging from good to bad, most of it solidly in the intriguing category...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Anyone will tell you that the economic environment has been wacky for over a year, and perhaps the wackiest news is that Wall Street is enjoying a bull market, however short-lived it may be. In truth, according to financial types, the terrain has changed slowly over the past months to the point where companies are again successfully issuing new debt, and two of our lead stories reflect that shift... (1 Member Reaction) 

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. Business news, much like business has slowed to a trickle, but research news continues apace in the industry - so we have a wide spectrum of topics to cover in this issue...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. News is thin on the ground, so we have the opportunity for another short letter. Let's start with some business news... (1 Member Reaction) 

Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. It appears that the last chapter of the Dow/Rohm and Haas merger has been written, with the official release of a joint agreement announcement...

Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. The big news for this issue is the Dow/Rohm and Haas deal, which has avoided, at least for the moment, going to court ...