According to Ashland Specialty Ingredients, paint is changing. Yesterday's "house paint," a functional necessity to cover drywall, wood or masonry, must today be an "architectural coating" that allows owners to express their personal style. ...
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Gx Glass is launching MagnX, a new range of magnetic back-painted toughened glass and dry wipe memo boards. It allows documents to be 'pinned' to the glass surface using magnets which adhere to metal-backed glass and the glass surface is ...
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Sto Corp., the innovative world leader in cladding, air barrier, coatings and restoration systems has introduced StoCoat X-black, a heat reflective exterior wall coating. StoCoat X-black reflects the sun's near infrared light energy and ...
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It turns out Picasso accomplished more with a can of house paint than most. To create some of his masterpieces, Picasso used a high quality enamel house paint because it was glossy and fast drying and didn't show brush marks like artists' ...
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With its proposed $1 billion acquisition of Akzo's North American house paint business PPG Industries, Inc. has found a use for the $900 million in cash proceeds from its soon to be completed commodity chemicals divestiture. Importantly, ...
Tags: Housing Recovery, PPG Industries, Construction, Akzo
Riding China's unprecedented home construction growth is at best a short-term strategy. What happens when this growth levels out or worse, declines? How would you measure success in a market that just a handful of years ago did not exist? ...
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