Axalta Coating Systems, a US based supplier of liquid and powder coatings for automobiles sector, has boosted its supply capabilities in Southern California region. With daily delivery services covering Oxnard in north and Fontana in ...
Tags: Coating, powder coatings, liquid coatings
Costs - related to areas like more efficient manufacturing processes, applications, use of energy and logistics – were a major focus of attention at the European Coatings Show (ECS) in Nuremberg, Germany, in April. The three-day ...
Daimler has signed an agreement with global paints and coatings company AkzoNobel, making the company an approved supplier of vehicle refinishes to the company's dealerships and bodyshops worldwide. The agreement includes the supply of ...
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
Valspar has announced today significant price increases in Mirror Coatings in most of the product lines and all the regions. “After many years of prices erosion not fully compensated by productivity and after a period where raw ...
Tags: Valspar, Mirror Coatings
Certification systems for verifying the sources of biobased raw materials and their content in finished products are already operating in the agriculture and food sectors in Europe. Now they are beginning to be introduced into the ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Chemicals
In terms of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, portfolio changes and investment projects, one of the most active sectors in the European coatings supply chain is dispersions. Despite a slow growth in demand for coatings, ...
Tags: coatings supply, European, VOCs, dispersions market
European regulations aimed specifically at limiting emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from coatings have been mainly confined to decorative paints and the manufacture of the coatings themselves. The last piece of major ...
Tags: European, VOCs, decorative paints, manufacture of the coatings
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
International Paint's protective coatings business opened a £6.4 million (€7.1 million) testing laboratory for fire protection products at its Felling, UK site. "The new facility significantly improves our ability to develop and ...