According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, in 2011 U.S. consumption of coatings is projected to be 1.4 billion gallons, containing 7.8 billion pounds of solids, worth $23 billion. The industry saw its ...
Tags: KN&G, paint and coatings market
Throughout history there have been many instances of alluring success that has led many people to chase a perceived golden opportunity only to end up very disappointed. In recent times there has been a genuine gold rush atmosphere when it ...
AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announced today that it has made an agreement with ADEKA Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo; President: Akio Kohri; hereinafter "ADEKA") with respect to the ...
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In terms of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, portfolio changes and investment projects, one of the most active sectors in the European coatings supply chain is dispersions. Despite a slow growth in demand for coatings, ...
Tags: coatings supply, European, VOCs, dispersions market
Europe's coatings companies, especially the multinational ones, are reasonably confident they can continue to increase their sales in the short- to medium-term, unless the world is plunged into a second recession. But they are much ...
Tags: coating, Europe, recession, sales, interim results
Paint producers and their raw material suppliers in Europe are giving a new impetus to the drive to making sustainability a central objective of the whole coatings market across the region. The sector is seeking to draw up common ...
Tags: paint producers, raw material suppliers, Europe, CEPE
There were, despite continued economic uncertainty in many Western markets and concerns over slowing growth in the East, signs that M&A activity rebounded in the food sector this year. Data for the whole of 2012 has not yet been published ...
Tags: European M&A advisors, food sector, Food
On 19-21 November 2012 the twenty partners involved in an EU funded research programme held their kick-off meeting in Wageningen,The Netherlands.Led by Wageningen UR Food&Biobased Research,the 4-year project has the goal to develop a new ...
Tags: SPLASH, Sugar, Deriving Polyester
An official figure in the Iranian National Petrochemical Company said that world's largest ethylene producer has been launched in Asalouyeh.Official added that the West Ethylene Pipeline will begin operation. Mr Reza Amiri directing ...
Tags: Iranian National Petrochemical Company, Asalouyeh, ethylene, pipeline
Once again the Lenzing Group was honored for its sustainability efforts. At the Energy Globe Award Upper Austria 2012, Lenzing placed second in the category "Earth". This category distinguishes a prudent and sustainable approach to dealing ...
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Economic Times reported that condition for Indian steel players is worse when compared to their global peers. At a time when global steel prices are rising, prices domestically have remained flattish due to subdued demand and continuing ...
Tags: steel, steel prices, flat steel, scrap
Reuters reported that Aluminium smelters in China have agreed on higher ratios of metal prices next year to value purchases of the raw material alumina spurred by worries of tighter supply at home. Traders and sources at smelters said ...
Tags: aluminium smelters, metal, Metal Exchange, alumina
Visa Steel Ltd will sell new shares to fund INR 17 billion expansion and cut debt,as it tries to end six straight quarters of losses. Mr Vishambhar Saran chairman of Visa Steel Ltd said that the sale at the right price will reduce the ...
Tags: Visa Steel, shares, cut debt, six straight quarters of losses
In 2011, the rate in Germany at which used packaging steel was recycled into new steel reached 93.9%. It exceeds the previous top rate, which was achieved in 2010, by a further 0.6 percentage points. This was the figure quoted by the ...
Tags: packaging steel, new steel, recycled, tinplate, od cans, aerosol spray cans
It's reported that the Taiwanese steel pipe makers may raise the domestic prices by NT$400/ton for next January in order to reflect the price rise made by Chung Hung Steel,one of the major upstream raw material suppliers for steel pipe ...
Tags: Chung Hung Steel, Taiwanese steel pipe makers, price rise