PPG Industries supported the automotive body painting contest of the Fifth National Transportation Vocational Skills Competition by providing all coatings products for contestants. The competition was held at the Secondary Vocational School ...
PPG Industries' commercial coatings group has launched AUE-370YL, a key addition to its family of CPC/LIC (Commercial Performance Coatings/Light Industrial Coatings) high-hiding yellow resin bases. AUE-370YL is a yellow tint base intended ...
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) is expanding its training program for the coatings industry worldwide with a new partner, Vincentz Network. The agreement was signed during the CEPE Annual Meeting in Prague between Tom Bowtell (CEO ...
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PPG Industries plans to invest $60 million in a new manufacturing facility and commercial operation for its coatings businesses in the Lipetsk region of Russia. The company anticipates project completion in the second half of 2015. The ...
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With the April 2013 acquisition of AkzoNobel's North American architectural coatings business by PPG Industries, customers can now purchase PPG Protective and Marine Coatings (PMC) products at Dulux Paint stores across Canada. This is the ...
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The Sherwin-Williams Company SHW has completed the acquisition of the U.S./Canada business of Consorcio Comex, S.A. de C.V. Sherwin-Williams will pay $90 million in cash and assume liabilities currently valued in the range of $75 million. ...
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PPG Industries recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its electrocoat systems at its China headquarters in Shanghai. PPG was the first company to introduce electrocoating technology commercially in an automotive OEM (original ...
BASF is investing approximately €90 million to set up a world-scale production plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai, China. The new plant will produce high performance resins and electrocoat (e-coat). The start-up ...
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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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PPG Industries in Argentina recently celebrated the consolidation of operations at its coatings manufacturing complex in Pilar. Approxiamtely 170 people attended an event, including key customers, government officials, employees and major ...
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AkzoNobel has announced a price increase on all coil coatings products for North America, effective September 1, 2013. Over the past two years, AkzoNobel has worked to off-set the impact of raw material increases through improvements in ...
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AkzoNobel and Solvay have signed a three-year agreement whereby AkzoNobel will increase the use of renewable raw materials in its paints and coatings, building on an existing partnership between the two companies. Under the terms of the ...
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The Valspar Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Inver Holding S.r.l., a leading industrial coatings manufacturer in Europe. The transaction is expected to close in the fiscal fourth quarter, subject to regulatory ...
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Delta Manufacturing, Inc., a Newport, Arkansas.-based maker of steel trailers, has selected PPG Industries' commercial coatings group as its paint supplier. Delta has manufactured horse, livestock, equipment and cargo trailers since ...
International Paint has launched a new website at www.international-pc.com/northamerica specially designed to serve the needs of customers in North America including—U.S., Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. While the ...
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