PPG Industries' coil and building products group has published the Building Products Coil Coatings Color Guide, an eight-page brochure featuring 100 coatings color samples categorized according to eight product lines and five resin ...
Tags: PPG, Coil Coatings Color Guide, Decoration
After failing to get South Korean LG Chemicals on board as a technology partner for its Kochi-based petrochemical project, Indian public sector refiner Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) said it will buy outright, the critical ...
Tags: BPCL, Technology, Textile
Ferro Corporation has signed a definitive agreement with Milan, Italy-based Private Equity Funds' Management Company Star Capital SGR S.p.A. and two minority owners and founders Gianfranco Padovani and Sergio Zannoni to acquire Casola ...
Tags: Tile, Ferro Corporation, Coating
Perstorp, one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals, such as Capa, highlighted at UTECH Asia/PU China 2014 its growing commitment to China as the company's production platform in Zibo is being expanded to include a new Neopentyl ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Global coatings supplier Hempel, has launched HEMPADUR AvantGuard, a portfolio of three new anti-corrosive zinc primers. Based on patented AvantGuard technology, HEMPADUR AvantGuard coatings provide better anti-corrosion protection than ...
Tags: Construction, Coatings
Axalta Coating Systems received Qualicoat Class 2 certification for production of Alesta Super Durable (SD) powder coating in China. Alesta SD is manufactured in Dongguan, the location of one of six powder coating manufacturing plants ...
Tags: Axalta Coating Systems, Qualicoat Class 2 certification, Decoration
According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. c) continued to expand, rising by 0.5 percent in August on the heels of a 0.4 percent gain in July. Chemical output remained ahead of month ...
Tags: CPRI, Expand, Decoration
Excelitas Technologies Corp of Waltham, MA, USA, which provides customized optoelectronics to OEMs, has launched its OmniCure AC8 Series of UV LED curing systems. The latest addition to the AC Series of UV LED curing solutions features ...
Boyd Coatings Research Co., Inc. has announced the availability of fifteen colors of PVDF (Polyvinylidene Difluoride) coatings – all of which have undergone the rigors of recent biocompatibility testing and been declared suitable for ...
PPG Industries’industrial coatings business has introduced POWERCRON ADVANTEDGE electrocoats (e-coats), a line of next-generation, high-edge cationic-epoxy products for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) markets. Powercron ...
Tags: PPG, EMEA Markets, Construction
PPG Industries' protective and marine coatings business is fulfilling growing demand for "ice class" marine coatings for hull protection with SIGMASHIELD 1200 coating. Developed from research conducted in PPG's own facilities, SIGMASHIELD ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, one of the global automotive coatings leaders, has announced that Fiat Group Automobiles Mopar Parts & Service and Customer Care division has approved Axalta's three global refinish brands – Cromax, Spies ...
Specialty chemicals group LANXESS is strengthening its production network in China to meet the high level of demand for iron oxide pigments and is adding a mixing and milling plant to the pigment plant already under construction in Ningbo. ...
Tags: Iron Oxide, Red Pigments
Max Chemical, Inc. is now a trademark licensee of Arkema's Kynar Aquatec high-performance coating technology in North America. Max Chemical uses Kynar Aquatec PVDF latex as the basis for its Crossco® MaxWhite ultra-durable roof coating ...
Tags: coating technology, Max Chemical
Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corporation, has increased capacity at its precipitated alumina trihydrate (ATH) plant in Bauxite, Arkansas by 30 percent. “Huber has a long-term, multi-stage plan to ...
Tags: Huber, fire retardant additives, ATH