Holding company RPM International has announced that its subsidiary, Carboline Company, has acquired a 49% interest in its Chinese licensee Carboline Dalian Paint Production Company.

U.S.-based PPG Industries, a global supplier of paints, coatings, chemicals, optical products, specialty materials, glass, and fiber glass, has acquired the automotive refinish coatings business of the Bonny Coating-Made Company, based in Guangzhou.

Hanfeng Evergreen, the largest producer of slow and controlled release fertilizers in China, announced that it has completed commissioning of the second phase of its 100,000 tonne per annum expansion of the Heilongjiang facility.

Rohm and Haas Company has officially launched the initial operations of its new manufacturing plant in Sanshui, Guangdong Province.