PPG Industries'(NYSE:PPG)automotive refinish business has expanded the PPG GLOBAL REFINISH SYSTEM line with the addition of two new versatile,reduced-gloss clearcoats,D8115 Matte and D8117 Semi-Gloss.The new clearcoats make up the Matte ...
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Major Latin American PVC producer Mexichem continued to conduct internal discussions in efforts to respond to a force majeure announced last week by its feedstock VCM supplier PPG in the US, a Mexichem source said Wednesday. "We're ...
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PPG Industries has commenced its exchange offer related to the split-off transaction of its commodity chemicals business. The split-off transaction is in connection with the separation and merger of Eagle Spinco Inc., a wholly-owned ...
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PPG Industries announced last week that it has received a favorable private letter ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service regarding the previously announced separation of its commodity chemicals business and subsequent merger of a ...
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PG Industries received the CSR Award - Special Prize for the third consecutive year and was named one of the top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) companies in China at the 2012 China Social Responsibility Annual Forum in Beijing. ...
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PPG Industries recently announced that it has received a favorable private letter ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service regarding the previously announced separation of its commodity chemicals business and subsequent merger of a ...
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PPG Industries has won a Building Design + Construction (BD+C) magazine Marketing Leadership Award for a print advertisement promoting the environmental sustainability of PPG glass and coatings. The advertisement, titled ...
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Duranar VARI-Cool coatings, which were used on the library’s metal siding, feature infrared-reflective pigments that deflect solar heat from buildings to reduce air-conditioning costs and urban heat-island effect. The coatings also ...
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With its proposed $1 billion acquisition of Akzo's North American house paint business PPG Industries, Inc. has found a use for the $900 million in cash proceeds from its soon to be completed commodity chemicals divestiture. Importantly, ...
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PPG Industries has been granted a patent for a coating comprised of a binder com-prised of a saturated polymer comprised of silyl functional groups and having a silyl equivalent weight of at least 150;an ungelled,secondary ...
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The 2012 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo drew industry leaders from across the country and around the world to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco for three days of sustainable energy discussion. Although the green ...
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PPG Industries has appointed Eric Thiele, assistant treasurer and credit director, as its new treasurer and a company officer. As of December 1 Thiele will be based at PPG's headquarters in Pittsburgh where he will report to David B. ...
At a hearing held in Windsor, Ontario on September 12, 2011, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved a settlement of the class action Court File No. CV-08-11573 (Windsor) in respect of Construction Flat Glass against the defendants ...
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On the face of it the outlook in Europe for OEM automobile coatings looks grim at the moment. The region is estimated to have a 20 percent overcapacity in car manufacturing so that plant closures are seen to be sooner or later ...
Sales in Europe's decorative paints market have been sluggish this year and are likely to show an even slower pace of growth in 2012. Meanwhile in the Gulf area of the Middle East—close to Europe's doorstep—the decorative ...
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