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Distributor News | Pigments
Archway Sales Inc. named regional distributor of Clariant's pigments business unit
Effective January 1, 2012 Archway Sales Inc. has been named a regional distributor for the Clariant Corporation’s Pigments Business Unit in North America. Under the agreement, Archway will distribute Clariant’s full line of organic pigmen…01.09.12
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H.B. Fuller to buy Forbo's adhesives business for $395 million
H.B. Fuller said it agreed to buy Swiss firm Forbo's industrial adhesives business for $395 million, as the specialty chemicals maker bulks up its presence in Europe. Europe, India, Middle East and Africa together form the second-largest mark…01.06.12
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Paint & Coatings Manufacturer News
DuPont Performance Coatings awarded the Daimler Trucks North America Masters of Quality Award
DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) recently received the prestigious Daimler Trucks North America Masters of Quality Award. This is the fifth time DuPont has received the award, and the third time in the past four years. The Masters of Quality progra…01.06.12
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Adhesives and Sealants | Business Operation | Paint & Coatings Manufacturer News
H.B. Fuller to buy Forbo's adhesives business for $395 million
H.B. Fuller said it agreed to buy Swiss firm Forbo's industrial adhesives business for $395 million, as the specialty chemicals maker bulks up its presence in Europe. Europe, India, Middle East and Africa together form the second-largest mark…01.06.12
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Automotive Refinish | Product news
PPG introduces Envirobase High Performance EC800 Ultra Fast Clearcoat
PPG has launched its new EC800 Ultra Fast Clearcoat, a high-production, 2.1-VOC air-dry clear for use with PPG’s Envirobase High Performance system. The new clear is intended to support high-volume collision repair centers focused on cutting re…01.06.12
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Industrial Coatings | Powder Coatings | Product news
PPG launches AUE-300YL and AUE-360YL
PPG Commercial Coatings has introduced AUE-300YL and AUE-360YL, two high-hiding, yellow urethane resin bases intended to provide increased hiding power for select industrial colors. These new resins are additions to the AUE-300 Low VOC Urethane Ename…01.06.12
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Powder Coatings | Product news
Jotun Powder Coatings introduces a new line of eco-friendly products
Jotun Powder Coatings launched its new line of eco-friendly products, Guard Gaze, Guard Miles and Guard Miles+. The three new powder coatings have been developed to meet the growing demands and requirements of industrial manufacturers, be it for dome…01.06.12
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Product news | Radcure Coatings
Ecology Coatings develops UV-curable coatings for medical wristbands
Ecology Coatings, Inc. has developed a UV-curable coating to meet the rigorous requirements of the healthcare industry. The coating is applied to a multilayered paper, printable patient wristband and is benzophenone-free—a request that is becom…01.06.12
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Product news
Vapor Tech launches pure black LTAVD coatings
Vapor Technologies, Inc., an industry pioneer in PVD (physical vapor deposition) thin-film coating systems for wide-ranging industrial and consumer product applications, has introduced what it says is the world's first true black advanced LTAVD (…01.06.12
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Automotive Refinish | Product news
BASF launches new color matching tool
BASF Automotive Refinish introduced its COLOR-MAXmobile2 solid color tool. COLOR-MAXmobile2 is compact and portable and provides 531 color chips that are designed to be comparale to the vehicle with up to five colors on a single swatch. Accord…01.06.12
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DuPont Performance Coatings awarded the Daimler Trucks North America Masters of Quality Award
DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) recently received the prestigious Daimler Trucks North America Masters of Quality Award. This is the fifth time DuPont has received the award, and the third time in the past four years. The Masters of Quality progra…01.06.12
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Bluestar Silicones opens resin manufacturing unit in its Saint Fons factory
In France Bluestar Silicones inaugurated its new resin manufacturing unit in its Saint Fons factory. The new production unit, named IRIS, will enable the resin production capacity to be doubled. Around sixty engineers and technicians have been invol…01.06.12
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Supplier News
Bluestar Silicones opens resin manufacturing unit in its Saint Fons factory
In France Bluestar Silicones inaugurated its new resin manufacturing unit in its Saint Fons factory. The new production unit, named IRIS, will enable the resin production capacity to be doubled. Around sixty engineers and technicians have been invol…01.06.12
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Paint & Coatings Manufacturer News
AGC enters into a strategic alliance with Interpane to strengthen its glass coatings business
AGC signed an agreement between its European subsidiary, AGC Glass Europe (AGEU), and a German glass manufacturer, Interpane, whereby AGC will take control of 51 percent of Interpane. The two companies, which are both producers of float glass, will d…01.05.12
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Paint & Coatings Manufacturer News
Tikkurila completes the sale of two retail stores in Sweden
Tikkurila has completed the sale of its two retail stores in Sweden. All the shares in Färgglädje Måleributiken i Alvik AB, as well as the assets of Alcro-Beckers AB's retail store in Uppsala, Sweden, were transferred to the buyer…01.05.12
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DuPont Titanium Technologies hikes costs for Ti Pure TiO2 grades globally
Effective Feb. 1, 2012, DuPont Titanium Technologies will implement a net price increase of 200 Euros per metric ton, or as permitted by contract, for all DuPont Ti Pure titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades for all countries in which invoicing is in Euro,…01.05.12
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Aculon receives USPTO patent for application of organometallic coatings to substrates
Aculon, Inc., a nanotechnology enabled performance coatings company, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed a patent covering its method for applying transition metal alkoxide films to substrates. United Sta…01.05.12
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Breaking News
AGC enters into a strategic alliance with Interpane to strengthen its glass coatings business
AGC signed an agreement between its European subsidiary, AGC Glass Europe (AGEU), and a German glass manufacturer, Interpane, whereby AGC will take control of 51 percent of Interpane. The two companies, which are both producers of float glass, will d…01.05.12
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Breaking News
Tikkurila completes the sale of two retail stores in Sweden
Tikkurila has completed the sale of its two retail stores in Sweden. All the shares in Färgglädje Måleributiken i Alvik AB, as well as the assets of Alcro-Beckers AB's retail store in Uppsala, Sweden, were transferred to the buyer…01.05.12
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Huntsman strengthens its presence in key markets with a Turkish PU house acquisition
Huntsman Corporation has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., a polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey. The EMA systems house has the capacity to manufacture polyester polyols and blend MDI polyurethane systems used primaril…01.05.12
