Houses are shrinking in the recessionary economy, but kitchens? Not so much. As other rooms are eliminated from downsized plans, their functions are naturally migrating to the kitchen, placing more pressure than ever on this culinary zone ...
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Modern fillers are increasingly used to improve the technical properties of filled materials. As a result, the filler market will grow by about 2.5 percent per year, according to Ceresana Research. Emerging countries, spearheaded by China ...
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Australia's largest paint maker Dulux has expanded its presence in the growing Chinese market through a merger between its Chinese operations and Hong Kong-based Camelpaint group. Dulux will own 51 percent of the new company called DGL ...
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Reportlinker. com has published a new market research titled, "Paints and Coatings: Global Markets & Advanced Technologies. According to the report, the global paints and coatings market was valued at approximately $99.5 billion at the end ...
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Research and Markets has published a new report titled, "China Anti-Corrosion Coating Industry Report, 2010-2011. " Recent years have seen fast-growing developments in China's anti-corrosion coating industry, with the producers numbering ...
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International Paint's Mexican affiliate, Compania Mexicana de Pinturas International SA de CV, has broadened its distribution network in Mexico through a new strategic alliance with, Sayer Lack Mexicana SA de CV. International Paint, a unit ...
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The coating process is a very old process, ~2000 years, and is unique in that it is still in increasing use and growing in importance, when the majority of old technologies are no longer in use. It is widely used and is still significantly ...
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Despite the current economic crisis that plunges the construction business ever downward, the "green building" trend is taking off. Even when new construction projects are in a decline, there is increasing interest in green building methods ...
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A belt sander is a machine used to sand down wood and other materials for finishing purposes. It consists of an electrical motor that turns a pair of drums on which a seamless loop of sandpaper is mounted. Belt sanders can be either ...
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Warming, comforting colours could be perfect for your new bathroom suite, as one expert has claimed such a pallet is bang on trend for 2011. Speaking to the Times Colonist, Dominique Pepin, chairwoman of the Colour Marketing Group and ...
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Coatings World: Has the market for industrial coatings experienced growth in the past year? Raphael Crawford, global marketing director, Dow Coating Materials: The market is recovering from the 2008 economic decline. The strengthening of ...
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It's been a tough go for the flooring industry, any industry, for that matter, since the housing market collapsed in the summer of 2006. For an industry still getting its feet wet, the recession could have spelled doom, which is what makes ...
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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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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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