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H.B. Fuller to buy Forbo's adhesives business for $395 million

January 6, 2012
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…  Read More »
DuPont Titanium Technologies hikes costs for Ti Pure TiO2 grades globally

January 5, 2012
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,…  Read More »
Aculon receives USPTO patent for application of organometallic coatings to substrates

January 5, 2012
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…  Read More »
AGC enters into a strategic alliance with Interpane to strengthen its glass coatings business

January 5, 2012
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…  Read More »
Tikkurila completes the sale of two retail stores in Sweden

January 5, 2012
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…  Read More »
Huntsman strengthens its presence in key markets with a Turkish PU house acquisition

January 5, 2012
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…  Read More »
Perstorp & PTT Global Chemical sign JV for manufacture and sale of products for PU industry

January 4, 2012
The joint venture for the worldwide manufacturing and sales of products for the polyurethane industry between specialty chemicals company Perstorp and PTT Global Chemical has been signed. At a ceremony in Grenoble, France, the future cooperation agr…  Read More »
Cappelle chooses Ferguson Chemical for distributing its high quality pigments in Canada

January 4, 2012
Cappelle Pigments has entered into an agreement with Ferguson Chemical Innovation to represent its high quality pigment products in the Canadian market. After a thorough search, Cappelle Pigments said it was determined that Ferguson would best fit i…  Read More »
ResearchInChina releases coating industry report

January 4, 2012
In 2010, the global market scale of coatings hit about USD90 billion and was expected to grow around 10 percent to USD99 billion in 2011. Building decorative coatings accounts for approximately 45 percent of the total market, the most among all coati…  Read More »
First Research releases a report on the U.S. paint and coatings manufacturing industry

January 4, 2012
According to a new report released by First Research, the U.S. paint and coatings manufacturing industry includes about 1,100 companies with combined annual sales of $20 billion. Large companies include Benjamin Moore, RPM International, Sherwin-Will…  Read More »
ITRI's Eco-friendly Spray-IT coating wins the 2011 WSJ Technology Innovation Award

January 4, 2012
ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions announced that two of its breakthrough technologies have won the 2011 Wall Street Journal Technol…  Read More »
Valspar opens research and development center in China

January 3, 2012
The Valspar Corporation opened a new research and development center in Shunde, China. The Valspar Applied Science and Technology Center will employ over 200 scientists to support the continued growth of Valspar in Asia Pacific and Valspar's rese…  Read More »
Novelis makes $50 million investment to install beverage can coating line in Brazil

January 3, 2012
Novelis, the world's largest producer of rolled aluminum, will invest approximately $50 million to install a coating line for beverage can end stock at its operations in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil. "This expansion is the most recent step in an…  Read More »
Univar to distribute Dow Corning's additives and binders for coatings market in Europe

January 3, 2012
Dow Corning has expanded its long-standing European distribution agreement with Univar to include distribution of Dow Corning coatings in Switzerland. The coatings product range includes silicone additives and binders which are used in a variety of a…  Read More »
Severstal commissions a second color-coating line in Russia for coated hot dip rolled products

January 3, 2012
OAO Severstal, one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and steel related mining companies, announced that its steel production unit, the Cherepovets Steel Mill, has commissioned its second color-coating line (CCL-2). The total inv…  Read More »

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