On the face of it the outlook in Europe for OEM automobile coatings looks grim at the moment. The region is estimated to have a 20 percent overcapacity in car manufacturing so that plant closures are seen to be sooner or later ...
The European coatings sector is being confronted with one of its most difficult challenges in the communication of safety information to its customers and other paint users. This communications problem stems from the ...
Tags: coatings sector, European, REACH
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
By 2030 around 70 percent of the Europe's energy requirements is predicted to come from abundant reserves of gas in Russia, the Artic and the neighboring areas of southeast Asia and North Africa. Also to the European Union's 27 member ...
Tags: Pipe, Europe, coatings market, energy
Industrial Nanotech, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Anticorrosion Protective Systems Sdn Bhd (APS) to serve as exclusive distributor in Malaysia for the company's patented Nansulate product line of thermal insulation and protective ...
Tags: APS, Industrial Nanotech, Malaysia, CUI
The prospects for a pick up in China's economy are getting better by the week,with more signs that 2013 could be a strong year.It is good news for the Australian economy,which has slowed in the past year in the wake of a sharp fall in the ...
Tags: China's economy, Australian economy, iron ore, CEWC
JFE Shoji Trade Corporation announced the execution of a USD 9 million Loan Agreement(the"Loan")with OM Materials(S)Pte Ltd a fully owned subsidiary of OM Holdings Ltd. OMH is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with principal ...
Tags: JFE Shoji Trade, Loan Agreement, OM Materials, ore sourcing
Japanese petrochemical majors are scouting overseas countries to set up petrochemical plants either on the own or in joint ventures. Big petrochemical companies like Sumitomo, Asahi Kasei, Mitsui & Co, Mitsubishi Chemicals and Ube ...
Industrial gas provider Praxair Inc of Danbury, CT, USA and its divisions and subsidiaries (Praxair Distribution Inc, Praxair Healthcare Services, Praxair Canada Inc, and Praxair Puerto Rico B.V.) is notifying bulk and packaged, industrial, ...
Tags: Praxair, Electronic, gases
BASF expanded its coating center recently by adding a tailor-made and flexible laboratory coating and laminating facility. The new coater facilitates the development of adhesive systems for flexible packaging, labels, tapes and functional ...
Beyond the short time,demands for steel will maintain lower than supply and the marginal cost for raw materials are heading for decline,and thus the cross year increase for steel prices will perform reasonably. Investments in Real Estate ...
Tags: demands for steel, steel prices, railway infrastructure construction
Misleading statements and fiction about toy safety are often communicated to the general public. The public must have access to the facts, so that they can make informed decisions about purchasing safe toys for their children. We want to ...
Tags: Toys, Toy Safety, Misleading statements, fiction
Become a craze with the energy-saving China LED industries have sprung up everywhere, branching out of one after another across the continent. In the Pearl River Delta, Huizhou City, Guangdong is actively building the national China LED ...
Tags: LED industry, China LED
At the Asia Pacific Coatings Show from September 19 to 20 in Jakarta, BYK additives & Instruments will be presenting additive solutions for the coatings and printing inks industry. The areas of focus at this year's show cover the themes: ...
Tags: BYK, Asia Pacific Coatings Show, Jakarta