Fresh Paint
Williams wrote for the court, “We
conclude that the state has not and
cannot allege any set of facts to support its public nuisance claim that
would establish that defendants
interfered with a public right or that
defendants were in control of the
lead pigment they, or their predecessors, manufactured at the time it
caused harm to Rhode Island children.”
“The attempt by plaintiffs’ attorneys and state legal officers to stretch
public nuisance theory far beyond its
normal applications to avoid statutes
of limitations and other requisite
legal boundaries has now been summarily rebuked by the Rhode Island
Supreme Court,” said Thomas J.
Graves, NPCA vice president and
general counsel.
PPG PUBLISHES GUIDE FOR
COIL AND EXTRUSION COATINGS
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings
business has published a new guide
specification for its liquid and powder
coil and extrusion coatings. PPG is the
first coatings company to make selection and specification of factory-applied
architectural coatings easier by producing a guide formatted to the
Construction Specifier Institute’s (CSI)
Masterformat 2004.
“With the addition in August of
Duranar powder coatings to our existing lines of Coraflon and Envirocron
powder coatings, PPG will offer more
choices for architectural metals than
ever before,” said Henry Lowman, PPG
director, extrusion products.
The new PPG IdeaScapes Guide
Specification covers protocols for
shop- and factory-applied metal coatings, and the ten-page document is
divided into three sections. The first
details industry-specific testing and
performance guidelines for metal
coatings, as specified by the
American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA),
American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) International,
ENERGY STAR and LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), among others. A
second, more extensive section shows
test data applicable to individual
PPG coil and extrusion coatings,
such as Duranar, Coraflon and
Acrynar coatings. The final section
covers installation requirements for
shop-applied coatings.
BASF LAUNCHES NEW R-M
WATERBORNE PRODUCT IN U.S.
BASF Automotive Refinish Solutions
has launched a new member of its R-M brand—Onyx HD—a high performance, environmentally compliant waterborne automotive refinish
basecoat that complies with the most
stringent environmental regulations
in the U.S. Onyx HD uses a waterborne system is currently available
in Canada and from coast to coast in
the U.S.
PRICE INCREASES
PPG Industries, Inc. recently announced that its architectural coatings business unit will execute another round of price increases as a result of rapidly
accelerating raw material and energy costs. The increases will be implemented
during the third quarter of 2008 across all distribution channels.
“The persistent raw material and energy cost increases that we continue to
face are impacting every aspect of our business,” said Scott Sinetar, vice president, PPG Architectural Coatings. “We have been extremely aggressive in
reducing controllable, internal costs, but these measures cannot sufficiently offset the continuing market-driven inflationary pressures.”
In response to escalating energy costs, transportation costs and certain raw
material increases, AkzoNobel Powder Coatings will raise prices by as
much as 15% for certain products. The exact price increase will vary by product depending on its exposure to increases of energy, transportation and raw
material cost.
HENKEL PROVIDES €150,000
FOR CHINESE EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
Henkel has donated €150,000 to help
the victims of the recent devastating
earthquake in China. Working closely with the Henkel sites in China, the
company is in the process of channeling a large portion of this emergency
aid in the form of monetary and
product donations via the Henkel
Friendship Initiative (HFI) to the
people in the regions affected.
€ 50,000 have been distributed via
the Red Cross in China. Henkel will
also be donating hygiene products,
cleaning agents and construction
materials valued at € 50,000. Henkel
will provide another € 50,000 over the
next few months to support specific
reconstruction projects in Sichuan
province.
STO EMERALDCOAT
BOASTS ICC-ES APPROVAL
Sto Corporation’s Sto EmeraldCoat,
part of the StoGuard air and moisture barrier system, has received
ICC-ES approval for use under all
claddings except exterior insulation
and finish system (EIFS). The new
version of report ESR-1233, issued
by the International Code Council
(ICC) recognizes Sto EmeraldCoat
