OSHA's proposed delay would push the electronic reporting compliance date from July 1, 2017, to Dec. 1, 2017.

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In addition to facilities for manufacturing and distributing coatings for automotive, industrial, packaging, and protective and marine applications, the facility includes administrative offices and technical laboratories.

The partnership will focus predominantly on the three-piece can market, and Sun Chemical will provide inks to KBA-MetalPrint on an ongoing basis.

The new site will include a Research, Development and Innovation center, as well as warehouse premises for raw materials and finished goods with railway connection.

This is a further step in the capacity expansions with which BASF is responding to the rising global demand for engineering plastics, the company stated. BASF’s worldwide compounding capacity for PA and PBT will thus reach more than 700,000 tons per year, creating about 50 new jobs.

The facility will continue to expand to provide a full range of next-generation coatings for the automotive manufacturing, refinish, and industrial markets, the company stated.

Considering the strong American trade position, ACA urged that future NAFTA negotiations be accomplished in a “do no harm” approach that preserves the very real benefits that the coatings industry has seen from this trade agreement over the past two decades.

The final nano-reporting rule requires a one-time reporting and recordkeeping of existing exposure and health and safety information on nanoscale chemical substances in commerce, and that companies that manufacture (including importing) or process certain chemical substances already in commerce as nanoscale materials notify EPA of certain information.

EPA is delaying the effective date of the RMP final rule amendments until February 2019. This latest delay will allow EPA more time to review and reconsider the final RMP rule amendments.