Eco Chemical has announced its participation at this years’ American Wood Protection Association (AWPA) 111th Annual Meeting held in Asheville, NC from April 12- 14. The company will be in attendance to participate in a series of ...
Tags: Wood Coatings, Eco Chemical, Decoration
Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC, will come together as one company at the European Coatings Show 2015 to explain how its product families of pigments and resins can be used together to create enticing coatings for a full range of ...
Tags: European Coatings Show 2015, Sun Chemical, Combining Technologies
For the full year of 2014, sales at global specialty chemical company, Eastman Chemical grew by just 2 per cent over 2013 to $9.5 billion. Operating earnings for 2014 amounted to $1.6 billion, a slight increase compared with 2013, while ...
Tags: end-market demand, hygiene, Apparel
NanoMarkets has announced the release of a new report titled, “Smart Coatings Markets 2015-2022,” a report that continues the firm’s coverage of the smart coatings market dating back to 2010. The report shows that the ...
Tags: smart coatings market, construction, energy, automotive
The Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA) and the Reflective Roof Coatings Institute (RRCI) have merged together into one industry association whose aim is to "continue to advance, promote, and expand the national and international ...
Tags: education, outreach, technical advancement, advocacy, Construction
Reported earnings per diluted share in the third quarter of 2014, at producer of speciality chemicals and NYSE-listed - Eastman Chemical Company, slipped 29% year on-year. “Reported earnings in the third quarter of 2014 stood at ...
Tags: Eastman Chemical, fibre segment, Textile
The dispersions segment is continuing to be one of the most active in the European coatings sector in the development of new technologies as well as investing in mergers and acquisitions and expansions in production capacity. Demand for ...
Tags: Dispersions, coatings sector
PPG Industries' commercial coatings group held its semiannual Commercial Truck Shop Conference Sept. 21-23 in conjunction with the 2014 fall PPG MVP Business Solutions Conference at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Conference Center in ...
Tags: Commercial Truck, PPG, commercial coatings
PPG Industries provided all coatings products for contestants in the Auto Body Painting Contest portion of the 2014 "Chevrolet Cup" National Automotive Application and Repair Skills Competition. This is the sixth consecutive year PPG has ...
Tags: PPG, Repair, Decoration
In response to the increasing demand for durable white reflective roofs, Polyglass U.S.A., Inc. has launched its latest white roof system option with a line of advanced silicone roof coatings products that include water-based and ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
AkzoNobel and Solvay have joined forces with EY (Ernst & Young) to jointly develop a monitoring system that tracks and quantifies the use of renewable raw materials in paints, coatings and other applications. The partnership builds on ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Solvay, Sustainable Raw Material
PPG Industries' industrial coatings business recently held a successful seminar on DURANAR coatings at the Hong Kong International Commerce Centre (ICC), highlighting its fluoropolymer coatings and introducing a new product under the ...
Tags: PPG, Coatings, Construction
The increase in infrastructure and maintenance spending by the private and public sector in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya is lending momentum to the industrial paints and coatings market in these countries. Nigeria presents the most ...
Tags: Industrial Paints, Coatings Market, coatings
Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSH: ASH), announced the addition of a coatings and construction lab in its Shanghai Technical Center. With 20 additional chemists, the newly expanded technical center ...
Tags: Ashland, Coatings&Construction Lab, Shanghai Technical Center