Perstorp has announced that during the second half of 2012, a new and extended distribution agreement was signed between Perstorp AB and Grupo M.Cassab. Besides its role as distributor for Perstorp's range of Caprolactones in the ...
Tags: Grupo M.Cassab, Perstorp, building blocks, coatings and coalescing agents
The Nova Paint Club has elected Michael Dayan, CEO of Tambour, Israel's leading paint company, to be its new president, replacing Joao Serrenho of CIN Group. The Nova Paint Club, which has ten member companies operating in 80 countries, ...
Tags: Nova Paint Club, new president, conference, Germany
NOF Metal Coatings Europe inaugurated its first global training center dedicated to zinc flake anticorrosion technology. The new center is located at the R&D and training European headquarters, in Creil, Oise, France. According to the ...
Industrielack AG (ILAG) inaugurated their new building in Wangen Switzerland. ILAG is part of the Looser Holding AG. The theme of the opening ceremony was “Getting Bigger – Staying Flexible.” ILAG, a leading provider ...
Tags: ILAG, new building, Switzerland
GNS Science and Resene Paints have teamed up to develop a high-tech roof paint containing nanoparticles that will be more effective than existing coating products at reflecting summer heat and keeping buildings cooler in summer. The joint ...
Tags: GNS Science, Resene Paints, paint, nanoparticles
The American Coatings Association (ACA) has announced that Dr. Dean Webster, chair of the Coatings and Polymeric Materials Department at North Dakota State University (NDSU), will deliver the Mattiello Memorial Lecture at its CoatingsTech ...
Tags: Eastman Chemical Company, Dean Webster, ACA, CoatingsTech Conference
KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. recently announced the appointment of Mario Toukan as head of the chemicals practice. Prior to assuming this role, Toukan spent 13 years as an M&A focused banker and served as KeyBanc Capital Markets’ ...
Dunn-Edwards has announced the availability of zero VOC colorants for tinting. Zero VOC colorants are available in all of Dunn-Edwards’ 110 stores located in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. “While high ...
Cytec Industries Inc. will be participating in the upcoming "Parquet & Furniture Coatings" conference organized by Vincentz Network. Bud Equi, Technology Director for the Crosslinker Business Team in the Cytec Coatings Resins Group, will ...
Tags: Cytec, wood coatings, Parquet and Furniture Coatings Conference
OMNOVA Solutions unveiled its new PLIOTEC HDT 12 binder designed for the formulation of anticorrosion paint. OMNOVA Solutions' Hydrophobic Dispersion Technology (HDT), provides adhesion and water resistance properties, making PLIOTEC HDT 12 ...
Tags: OMNOVA, formulation, anticorrosion paint
A BYK innovation team has won the 2012 Altana Innovation Award. The prize was awarded for high performance CRP wetting and dispersing additives for sophisticated coatings applications. The prize awards technically outstanding innovations ...
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Jotun Egypt has won an exclusive contract for painting the Cairo Festival Centre, one of the largest shopping malls in Egypt, and the replica mall of the Dubai Festival Center, the largest shopping center in the Middle East. The total ...
Tags: Jotun, painting contract, Cairo Festival Center, Egypt
Specialty Coating Systems will be hosting a free, educational webinar entitled “Advances in Conformal Coatings: Enhancing Reliability of Innovative Technologies” on Tuesday, December 4, 2012, at 10 AM Hong Kong/Singapore/Kuala ...
Tags: specialty coating systems, conformal coating webinar, engineers, Asia
While U.S. attendance at Fenestration China was almost non-existent, a last minute scheduling change no doubt had a lot to do with that low U.S. attendance. The event was first scheduled to take place November 8-10 but as a result of ...
Tags: low-E coatings, hard coat pyrolytic low-E coatings, glass, window
The credit agency Creditreform, represented by its Gießen subsidiary Creditreform Hain KG, recently awarded A+W with the coveted CrefoZert for top credit standing. This certificate was granted based on a professional annual ...
Tags: glass, awarded, Creditreform, window, door