Berkshire Hathaway has signed a deal to acquire 8.7% stake in Axalta Coating Systems from Carlyle Group for $560m. Under the stock purchase agreement, Berkshire Hathaway will purchase 20 million Axalta's common shares at $28 each. The ...
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. has announced that an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement with certain affiliates of The Carlyle Group for the purchase of a total of 20 million of ...
Tags: Business Operation, Architectural Coatings, Decoration
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used indium tin oxide (ITO) as part of the cladding for semi-polar indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) [A. Pourhashemi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111105, 2015]. The ...
Tags: Indium, InGaN substrates, Electrical
Cromax, one of the three premium global refinish brands from Axalta Coatings Systems, has unveiled its 2015 training program for the UK and Ireland, which is designed to cover all aspects of refinishing and all levels of competency. From ...
Sandvik Process Systems has signed an exclusive agreement with Italian extruder machinery manufacturer Extruwork Srl that will enable the company to offer integrated powder paint production lines. “This is a logical move for both ...
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Advanced weaving technology producer Picanol reached an impressive milestone this week when the 20,000th OptiMax rapier weaving machine rolled off the production line at its plant in Ypres, Belgium. “The first OptiMax which was ...
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Five years after introducing I-Fix, Netherlands based Setema, a producer of fabric finishing equipment, mainly for printing will show a complete newly developed high speed II-Fix, for the fixation of disperse dyes and pigments up to 5 ...
Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, has finalized the sale of DSM Synres to Standard Investment. DSM Synres produces solventborne alkyd and acrylic coating resins at its site in Hoek van Holland, the ...
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Evonik has launched a new dispersing agent for coil coatings. TEGO Dispers 675 is the ideal option for solventborne direct grind colored coatings which meet the high quality requirements in coil coatings, according to the company. The ...
Tags: Color, Coil Coatings, TEGO Dispers 675
Axalta Coating Systems has developed a new color styled exclusively for Kenworth. The new color, Aurora, was featured in Kenworth’s booth at the Mid America Trucking Show held on March 26 – 28 in Louisville, Kentucky. Axalta ...
Tags: Color, Axalta Coating Systems, Decoration
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. has priced and upsized its secondary offering from 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 of its common shares at $28.00 per share. All of the shares are being offered by certain affiliates of The Carlyle Group (the ...
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Clayton Beale, Axalta Coating Systems IT Manager, Supply Chain and Logistics Systems-North America, shared his perspectives as a presenter during the SAP for Chemicals conference in c, Georgia last week. Technology professionals from a ...
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The Valspar Corporation celebrates 50 years of Fluropon 70 percent PVDF resin-based coatings. Since the flagship architectural coating launched in 1965, Valspar’s Fluropon exterior coatings have become the industry standard for both ...
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Effective thermal management that both protects and prolongs the life of race components has led European Le Mans Series GTE front-runners JMW Motorsport to extend its partnership with Zircotec. In addition to ceramic coating the exhaust, ...
Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings launched the Water & Wastewater App designed to provide users with protective coating recommendations for the following water and wastewater operations: conventional water treatment, membrane ...