Paint & Coatings Manufacturer News
August 9, 2005
● Muralo Paint, the leading paint brand from Bayonne, NJ,-based Norton &
Sons, has signed an agreement to acquire certain assets of Graham
Paint, a Chicago-based manufacturer of waterborne and aqua-borne
interior and exterior architectur…
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August 9, 2005
Fire Barrier (FB) latex intumescent paint made by Contego International has passed the ASTM E-84 test
covering flame spread and smoke developed values with a class A rating on polyurethane foam, according
to the Fairfield, NJ-based company. The coa…
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August 9, 2005
Ureacoats Industries, a Deerfield Beach, FL-based manufacturer and distributor of weatherproofing
sealants and coatings, will open its second distribution center. The facility, located in Orlando, FL, will
be operated by Infiniti Paint Company, a $…
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August 9, 2005
Napier Environmental Technologies and Wattyl Australia have inked an accord that gives Wattyl usage,
resale and distribution rights to Napier’s RemovAll products in Australia. The deal marks Napier’s
first major international distributi…
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August 9, 2005
Dura Coat Products, Inc., a Riverside,CA-based manufacturer of paint products for the coil coating industry,
has announced plans to build a second manufacturing site in Huntsville, AL. The new 48,000-sq.ft.
paint manufacturing facility will include…
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August 9, 2005
“Globalization: marketing beyond the boundaries,” is the focus of the National Coil Coating Association’s
(NCCA) 40th annual meeting, which will be held April 13-16 at the Sheraton San Diego hotel and marina
in San Diego, CA.
Amo…
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August 9, 2005
BASF has launched Constellation Colors, an experimental line for automotive application that will make colors on vehicles visible at night. The company first unveiled the Constellation Colors in June on the Saleen S7R race car which ran in the 24 Hou…
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August 9, 2005
Coatings manufacturers that use a number of production facilities often need to meet contract specifications with products made at more than one facility. In situations where brands are made under license, details of manufacture or the quality of raw…
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August 9, 2005
Valspar’s Pittsburgh, PA plant has been accepted into the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Performance Track (NEPT) program. The facility is only the second paint and coatings plant in the U.S. to earn this status.
“We are proud o…
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August 9, 2005
Calling it a “key issue for our industry this year and probably for many years to come,” Klaus Matthias, chairman of the safety, health and environment operating group of CEPE commented on the White Paper on the Strategy for a Future Chem…
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August 9, 2005
Many additives are needed only in very small volumes and often generate only marginal profits for manufacturers. “Unless the chemical manufacturer conducts the necessary tests for a certain use, the downstream user has to do it, and this may pl…
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August 9, 2005
l A polyurea coating made by HEHR International Polymers will be used to protect a 4.2 mile concrete section of the San Mateo Bridge in San Francisco, CA. Already one year into the 25-month project, some 3.3 million square-feet will be coated with t…
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August 9, 2005
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations Specialized Agency with responsibility
for the safety of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships, signed an agreement
at a meeting in London, England on October 5,…
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August 9, 2005
After months of testing, H.B. Fuller has
launched its new e-commerce offering,
Powderstore.com. The site allows visitors to
perform a number of online tasks, including
placing orders, checking order status, downloading
tech data sheets and MSD…
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August 9, 2005
BASF Corporation’s automotive coatings manufacturing
plant in Belvidere, NJ has been
accepted into the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) National
Environmental Performance Track, a program
designed to motivate and reward…
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