AkzoNobel has completed the expansion of its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai in China, doubling annual production capacity and creating the company's biggest plant for packaging coatings in the world. Work started in ...
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PPG Industries reported record first quarter 2014 net sales from continuing operations of $3.6 billion, up $528 million, or 17 percent, versus the prior year. First quarter 2014 reported net income from continuing operations was $277 ...
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PPG Industries reported third quarter 2013 net sales of $4 billion, up 17 percent versus the prior year. Third quarter 2013 reported net income from continuing operations was $220 million, or $1.52 per diluted share, and adjusted net ...
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Global chemical company BASF is set to expand manufacturing capabilities at its US plants in Wyandotte, Michigan, and Monaca, Pennsylvania, in a bid to support customer growth in the packaging, printing and industrial coating markets. At ...
A growing trend among industrial companies is to develop strategies for giving priority to specific customer sectors rather than types of products. European companies offering both coatings and speciality chemicals have been becoming ...
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The Paint Research Association (PRA) has developed a food packaging coating product which can replace existing packaging coatings based on petrochemicals that are harmful for the environment. The new eco-friendly food packaging coating ...
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UK-based Paint Research Association (PRA) has developed an eco-friendly food packaging coating product, known as PlantPack, which can be an alternative to coatings based on petrochemicals. PlantPack, which has been developed from seaweed ...
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PPG Industries reported fourth quarter 2012 net sales of $3.6 billion. Net income for the quarter was $227 million, or $1.46 per diluted share, including nonrecurring charges. Adjusted net income for the quarter, excluding the nonrecurring ...
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US-based packaging coatings firm Valspar announced the election of Gary E. Hendrickson, who had already been serving as president and chief executive officer, as its new chairman with immediate effect. The new appointment comes as William ...
Global developer of water based packaging coatings and surface modifier additives Michelman is set to open new offices in Mumbai, India, in a bid to support the burgeoning Indian market. Michelman president and CEO Steven Shifman said the ...
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US-based coatings and industrial solutions provider PPG Industries is currently displaying its line of packaging coatings at Cannex Asia Pacific 2012 currently underway at Guangzhou, China. Applications that use packaging coatings like ...
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PPG Industries reported third quarter 2012 net sales of $3.8 billion. Net income for the quarter was $339 million, including nonrecurring charges. Adjusted net income for the quarter, excluding the nonrecurring charges, was $348 million. ...
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Michelman,a global developer of water-based packaging coatings and surface modifier additives,is expanding in the burgeoning Indian market with the opening of new offices in Mumbai.Led by Manoj Deorukhkar,Michelman's new India country ...
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Oplon has partnered with Reynolds Group to create antimicrobial coatings for their packaging which could extend shelf life of products by months and will be commercially available within the next two years. Source: ...
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Israel-based Oplon has partnered with American packaging company Reynolds Group to create antimicrobial coatings for packaging which could extend shelf life of food products by months.The coating is expected to be commercially available ...