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June 27, 2012
Elementis plc has agreed, through its wholly owned subsidiary Elementis Holdings Limited, to purchase Watercryl Quimica Ltda, a Brazilian coatings additives company, for $24 million. Watercryl was established in 1993 and is a supplier of additives t…  Read More »

June 27, 2012
IRL has published a new edition of its “Profile of the South American Paints Industry.” This report covers the markets for paints and coatings in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela…  Read More »
Reactive Surfaces opens first functional coatings manufacturing facility

June 26, 2012
Reactive Surfaces of Austin, Texas will open the doors of its new coatings manufacturing plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi starting July 2012. The company will maintain its corporate headquarters in Austin, and continue to build its bio-based additiv…  Read More »

June 25, 2012
Having to replace parts of industrial equipment is a very costly and time-consuming matter. These costs and the lost time can, however, be reduced by repairing, maintaining and protecting the parts. In its newly opened Competence Center for Coatings…  Read More »

June 22, 2012
The automotive coatings group of BASF announced that General Motors has transitioned to BASF’s CathoGuard 800 cathodic e-coat at several of its automotive plants throughout the world including Russia, China, Brazil, and North America. CathoGua…  Read More »

June 22, 2012
A new generation of bright metallic sparkle paints has been launched by AkzoNobel, the world’s leading architectural powder coating supplier. Five new shades have been added to the Interpon D Brilliance range of AkzoNobel, and the total range h…  Read More »

June 22, 2012
SLIPS technology, developed by the lab of Joanna Aizenberg, has transformative potential for everyday life. A novel coating that repels almost every type of liquid and solid, from blood and crude oil to ice and bacteria, has received a 2012 R&D 1…  Read More »

June 21, 2012
Work on a new £100m manufacturing plant in the North East is underway following a groundbreaking ceremony held today. The world-class high-tech manufacturing facility will become the heart of AkzoNobel’s UK Decorative Paints operations,…  Read More »

June 21, 2012
Along with numerous projects in the emerging markets, Dürr has recently received an order for the construction of an automotive paint shop in France. In the first quarter of 2012, Smart France SAS ordered a top coat line for their plant in Hamba…  Read More »

June 19, 2012
RPM International Inc. has acquired Viapol Ltda., a Brazilian manufacturer and marketer of building materials and construction products. Based in Cacapava, Brazil, near Sao Paulo, Viapol has annual sales of approximately $85 million. Viapol, which w…  Read More »
BASF opens new technical support lab in India

June 19, 2012
Taking another stride towards developing India as an international competence center, BASF Coatings (India) Private Limited, which merged with BASF India Limited as of January 14, 2011, has set up a new coatings technical support lab at Mangalore, In…  Read More »

June 18, 2012
Established in 1946 and with headquarters in Garden City, NY, Superior Materials, Inc., is a specialty chemical distributor/agent celebrating its 66th year representing leading manufacturers. The company recently added two new employees to its sales…  Read More »

June 15, 2012
Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has fired Benjamin Moore's CEO Dennis Abrams. A published report in the New York Post said that the former CEO used company money to treat top executives on a Bermuda getaway. A spokeswom…  Read More »

June 15, 2012
ICA, one of the leading industrial groups in Europe specializing in the manufacture and marketing of special coatings for wood, is reinforcing its competitiveness on the global market through the establishment of the new Italian coatings division, by…  Read More »

June 14, 2012
AkzoNobel completed the restructuring of its activities in Pakistan by establishing AkzoNobel Pakistan Limited as a separate legal entity from ICI Pakistan. As previously announced, the split means that the company has started the formal sale process…  Read More »

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