Executives reflect on the past year in coatings and look ahead to what the future might bring. Charles Bunch, chairman and CEO, PPG Industries The strategic actions that PPG has undertaken over the past decade have served to transform our ...
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Russia is once again one of the fastest growing coatings markets in Europe with the strong likelihood that it will soon be the region's largest by value. However there are doubts about whether it will be able to keep up the pace of ...
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International Paint's protective coatings business opened a £6.4 million (€7.1 million) testing laboratory for fire protection products at its Felling, UK site. "The new facility significantly improves our ability to develop and ...
Riding China's unprecedented home construction growth is at best a short-term strategy. What happens when this growth levels out or worse, declines? How would you measure success in a market that just a handful of years ago did not exist? ...
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Jotun India and Jotun China have secured the Reliance Sasan 6 x 660 MW Ultra Mega Power (UMPP) Project, the first coal-based UMPP project in India. In China, 90, 000 metric tons of turbine house steel structure will be coated with Jotun ...
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Pigment is a kind of colored particles powdery substance, general insoluble in water, oil, solvents and resins medium dispersed in various media can. It has covering power, tinting strength, light relative stability, often used for ...
Industrial coatings manufacturers express optimism for the coming year. The industrial coatings market is beginning to recover from the recent economic downturn. The strengthening global economy has led to an increase in newbuilding and ...
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Sciessent, creator of naturally occurring silver-based antimicrobial brand Agion has partnered with Diamond Vogel, a manufacturer of industrial coatings, to offer the Peridium Powder Coatings line. The new Peridium line brings the quality ...
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Nowadays, as long as literally walked into a Beijing coating market, there would be people recommend "Liquid wallpaper". Even if not buy, sheet is its "Neither wallpaper, also not ordinary metope lacquer" Concept, also can let decorate the ...
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IF IT'S metal, it's a challenge. Among manufacturers and importers , Rehmertthe capacity for absorbing cost increases for labor and material is running out, prompting an increasing - and in some cases an immediate - need to raise ...
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Frost & Sullivan predicts decorative paints and coatings market to increase $3,262.6 M by 2017. The decorative paints and coatings market was worth $2,077.3 million in 2010, according to Frost & Sullivan. With a compound annual growth rate ...
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International Paint Ltd. Is set to initiate product price rises in response to spiraling global raw material costs. "During 2010 the cost of raw materials critical to the manufacture of both our marine and protective coatings product ranges ...
Coatings World recently spoke with a number of surfactant suppliers to the coatings industry regarding the state of the market. Among the topics discussed were raw material costs, "green" chemistry and opportunities for growth. Coatings ...
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AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Europe West will increase prices between 8.5 and 19 percent. This rise is in response to continued shortages in raw material supplies and the associated increase in raw material costs. Gordon MacLeman, managing ...
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It would be difficult to discuss the Chinese paint and coatings market without mentioning the Chinese economy. That vibrant, herculean economy is the heart and soul of the emergence of China onto the global scene in recent years. While the ...
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