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Dunn-Edwards Paints wins Manufacturing Leadership 100 Award

February 16, 2012
Dunn-Edwards recently received the 2012 Manufacturing Leadership 100 award for Operational Excellence, by Manufacturing Executive. The company’s new LEED Gold-certified manufacturing facility was honored for its innovation and superiority in op…  Read More »
Aakash Chemicals hires Mark Wright as regional manager
Aakash Chemicals hires Mark Wright as regional manager

February 16, 2012
Mark Wright has joined Aakash Chemicals as the company's new regional manager. Prior to joining Aakash Chemicals, he worked for DayGlo Color Corp. for more than 20 years, serving as vice president of sales the last five. His experience includes c…  Read More »
Mauser Group acquires North American container manufacturer and service provider

February 16, 2012
Mauser Group, a worldwide industrial packaging company, has acquired Varicon Solutions in North America. Mauser will take over the plastic packaging part of the business, which includes HDPE tight head and open head drums made out of virgin as well a…  Read More »
Precision Coating acquires hydrophilic coating provider for medical applications

February 16, 2012
Precision Coating Co., Inc. has acquired a controlling interest in Medi-Solve Coatings, LLC of Natick, Mass. Medi-Solve Coatings is a hydrophilic coating provider focusing on medical device applications. Medi-Solve Coatings adds formulation and appli…  Read More »
Troy introduces two new high performance defoamers for aqueous systems

February 15, 2012
Troy Corporation has introduced two new defoamers—Troykyd D742 and D745. The two new defoamers offer a cost-effective solution to foam-related issues across many applications said the company. For example D742 and D745 are touted to provide exc…  Read More »
Emerald Kalama Chemical to participate in energy cooperative project

February 15, 2012
Emerald Kalama Chemical BV, a division of Emerald Performance Materials, has signed 15-year agreements with both Rotterdam-based grid manager Stedin and energy supplier AVR. These agreements give a green light to begin construction of a steam grid in…  Read More »
Valspar reports 5.1 percent growth in sales and 67 percent growth in net income for Q1, 2012

February 15, 2012
The Valspar Corporation reported its results for the first-quarter ended January 27, 2012. First-quarter sales totaled $885.6 million, a 5.1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2011. First-quarter adjusted net income per share increased to $0.…  Read More »
Frost & Sullivan foresees dynamic shift in the APAC decorative coatings market in 2012

February 15, 2012
The Asia Pacific (APAC) decorative coatings market has seen steady progress since 2010, outperforming the global decorative coatings market in volume and value. This surge in volume can be explained by the heavy investments in infrastructure developm…  Read More »
Freedonia Group's report forecasts global demand for paint and coatings to rise 5.4 percent per year

February 15, 2012
Global demand for paint and coatings is forecast to rise 5.4 percent per year to 45.6 million metric tons in 2015, valued at $142 billion, according to Freedonia Group's report, "World Paint & Coatings." Advances will be driven by a…  Read More »
Ferguson names new sales and marketing managers
Ferguson names new sales and marketing managers

February 14, 2012
Ferguson Chemical Innovation has named Riki Gogna its new business line sales manager for the coatings, adhesives and sealants group (CAS), responsible for the development and management of the company’s CAS sales group in Canada. Gogna is a r…  Read More »
Dover’s Pump Solutions Group to acquire the Maag Group

February 14, 2012
Pump Solutions Group (PSG), a business unit within the Engineered Systems segment of Dover Corporation, has agreed to acquire the Maag Group headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The acquisition includes Maag Pump Systems, Automatik Pelletizing Syste…  Read More »
Jotun's protective coatings pass the IMO PSPC COT rules for protecting tanks against corrosion

February 14, 2012
Jotun recently completed testing of coating systems consistent with the new IMO PSPC rules for cargo oil tanks (COT), scheduled to come into force next year. The new IMO PSPC rules for cargo oil tanks (COT) will go into effect January 2013. Focused…  Read More »
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Industrial Nanotech's Nansulate coatings to shield a U.S. nuclear power plant

February 14, 2012
Industrial Nanotech, Inc., has made its first sale to a nuclear power facility in the United States of its patented nanotechnology-based insulation and protective coating line, Nansulate. The coatings provide effective, weathering resistant thermal i…  Read More »
Wacker Polymers to raise prices for vinyl acetate-based dispersions in the Americas

February 14, 2012
Wacker Polymers is increasing its prices for Vinnapas vinyl acetate-ethylene and ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions in the Americas. Effective February 29, 2012 Wacker will implement a price increase of $0.03 per wet pound, or as cus…  Read More »
Michelman CEO appointed to TechSolve board of directors
Michelman CEO appointed to TechSolve board of directors

February 13, 2012
Steven Shifman, president and CEO of Michelman, Inc., has been appointed to serve on the TechSolve board of directors. As a TechSolve board member Shifman will provide guidance on TechSolve’s overall strategic direction, mission and growth plan…  Read More »

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