Michael A. Cash has joined Axalta Coating Systems as senior vice president and president, Industrial Coatings. In this newly created position, Cash will be responsible for developing and executing global business strategy for customer ...
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Students at two Dutch universities who teamed up with coatings experts from AkzoNobel are attempting to smash the world speed record for a human-powered vehicle. The Human Power Team from Delft Technical University and the Free University ...
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AkzoNobel has received a binding offer for the purchase of its Building Adhesives business by Sika AG for € 260 million. Building Adhesives generated annual revenues of € 185 million in 2012. The transaction, which is expected to ...
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Foreign-invested paint companies in Vietnam are putting pressure on local manufacturers. The Vietnam Paint and Ink Association said the country has an annual total output of 250 million litres of paint, including 180 million litres of ...
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Sika has made a binding offer of CHF 320 million to acquire the Building Adhesives Business of the Dutch company AkzoNobel. With annual sales of CHF 228 million, AkzoNobel Building Adhesives is a top-three player in its core European ...
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Akzo Nobel N.V. reported a four percent decrease in revenues in the second quarter compared with the same period last year. The company reported that this was due to divestments and adverse currencies against a backdrop of continued ...
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PPG Industries announced several executive appointments that are effective Aug. 1: Frank S. Sklarsky, executive vice president, finance, will be appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer, as previously announced, and ...
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PPG Industries reported record second quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year. Second quarter 2013 reported net income from continuing operations was $341 million, or $2.35 per diluted share. Adjusted ...
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Certification systems for verifying the sources of biobased raw materials and their content in finished products are already operating in the agriculture and food sectors in Europe. Now they are beginning to be introduced into the ...
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International Paint LLC, an AkzoNobel business, has announced the launch of Interfine 1080 in North America; a next generation low volatile organic compounds (VOC) acrylic polysiloxane finish coat that offers high-level performance in a ...
AkzoNobel Powder Coatings' Interpon D3000 Fluoromax coatings for architecture have been awarded a Certificate of Material Excellence by Material ConneXion and accepted into Material ConneXion’s library of innovative materials. The ...
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PPG Industries chairman and CEO Charles E. Bunch has been tabbed as the recipient of The ICIS Kavaler Award in recognition of outstanding achievement, according to a PPG release. The award, which is sponsored by the Chemists' Club, will ...
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AkzoNobel has announced a price increase on all coil coatings products for North America, effective September 1, 2013. Over the past two years, AkzoNobel has worked to off-set the impact of raw material increases through improvements in ...
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AkzoNobel has purchased Terra Technology's Demand Sensing and Multi-Enterprise Inventory Optimization solutions to improve demand predictability and reduce inventory across Europe and Africa. "AkzoNobel chose Demand Sensing and ...
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AkzoNobel has supplied high performance coatings systems for half of the stadiums being used at this month's FIFA Confederations Cup football tournament in Brazil. Being staged from June 15 to 30, the three stadiums to feature the ...
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