BASF will share its latest automotive refinish solutions to improve collision center productivity and enhance profitability at Booth #1535 at the 2013 International Autobody Collision Exposition (NACE), Oct. 16-18, at the Mandalay Bay ...
By the end of 2014, BASF will have built a new European center of expertise for its flooring and waterproofing systems at the BASF Coatings GmbH site in Oldenburg, Germany. The company is investing in the production and development of ...
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Since mid-August, Hamburg's port has hosted a new inland wind turbine whose rotor blades are nearly 60 meters long. BASF's RELEST coatings make a crucial contribution to the longevity of the turbine. They ensure high surface quality and ...
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The Supervisory Board of BASF Coatings GmbH has appointed Thomas Hartmann as Managing Director and Industrial Relations Director of BASF Coatings GmbH, effective September 1, 2013. He succeeds Eva Müller who will assume a new position ...
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German chemical firm BASF is investing about EUR90m to build a new plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China, for producing resins and electrocoat (e-coat) for use in automotive coatings. Scheduled to commence production during ...
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BASF Coatings Japan Ltd. has been awarded a patent for a paint composition comprised of a hydroxyl group containing resin comprised of a hydroxyl group value of from 80 to 220 mg KOH/g, a glass transition temperature of −50° C or ...
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German chemical company BASF's subsidiary, BASF Coatings has opened a new training center for automotive refinishing, the Refinish Competence Center (RCC), with an investment of over EUR2.7m in Cesano Maderno, Italy. The 1,200sqm center ...
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BASF Coatings Japan Ltd. has been granted a patent for a method of forming a metallic tone glitter paint film comprised of applying a first base metallic paint for providing a sense of glitter with a metallic tone to a base material, the ...
Cars sales have been falling in Western Europe as yet another economic downturn confirms expectations that the region’s recovery from the 2008 financial crisis will be a lengthy process. However, while demand for cars declines, ...
Muenster / Munich. The annual Global Trend Book of BASF , which targets the designers of the automotive manufacturers, allows to experience color and paint. BASF has now received the iF communication design award for the design of its ...
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U.S. 8,192,603 B2 BASF Coatings GmbH has been granted a patent for an aqueous coating composition comprised of a metal oxide selected from the group consisting of bismuth oxide, vanadium oxide, manganese oxide, cobalt oxide, zinc ...
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BASF Shanghai Coatings, a subsidiary of the German chemical company BASF, has started construction of a new automotive coatings plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in China. Scheduled to start production in early 2014, the new ...
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German chemical company BASF is delivering paints for the ComfortClass 500 bus produced by Setra, a brand of Daimler subsidiary EvoBus. The new bus, which was unveiled at the 2012 International Automobile-Ausstellung (IAA) Commercial ...
The main features of recent color trends in Europe have been a greater preference for more and stronger colors and a continued move to white in key influential sectors like the automobile market. Now the big question is how much these ...
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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 ...
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