Paint & Coatings Manufacturer News
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August 11, 2005
Zandleven Coatings joins Transocean partnership
Dutch organization Zandleven Coatings has joined Transocean Coatings, an association of paint manufacturers that cooperate to develop, produce and sell paint and coatings for shipping, steel protection…
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August 11, 2005
Paint Demand in Russian FED was 880,000 Tons in 2003
According to a new study from IRL, paint demand in the Russian Federation was estimated at 880,000 tons in 2003, with local production accounting for 70%.
IRL reports that many sectors of Russia…
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August 11, 2005
A venerable name in home improvement will soon be a paint brand.
ICI has signed a deal with This Old House Ventures, Inc. to manufacture a line of paint sold under the This Old House name. Financial terms were not disclosed, and distribution and…
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August 11, 2005
CALIFORNIA EPA Issues SUD
for Crystalline Silica in Interior Flat Latex PAINT
On Dec. 26, California’s Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a safe use determination (SUD…
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August 11, 2005
PPG Industries wants designers of electronics to think beyond the beige box. To help make that task easier, it has introduced the TrendCast styling kit. Created to predict and communicate the latest trends in color, texture and special effects, the k…
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August 11, 2005
In collaboration with DuPont Kabushiki Kaisha, DaimlerChrysler Japan (DCJ) is starting to make the switch to water-based paints at its vehicle preparation centers (VPCs) in Toyohashi and Hitachi.
The new process will first be applied to the Mercede…
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August 11, 2005
Valspar Corp. has purchased De Beer Lakfabrieken, a privately-owned manufacturer and distributor of automotive refinish coatings based in Lelystad, The Netherlands.
De Beer sells products in more 65 countries and had sales in fiscal 2003 of approxim…
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August 11, 2005
aimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors have renewed their approvals of BASF’s refinish systems for repairs covered by warranty.…
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August 11, 2005
TW Devcon Acquires
Futura COATINGS
ITW Devcon has acquired certain assets of Futura Coatings Inc., a St. Louis-based producer of sprayable high-performance elastomeric coatings and linings. ITW Devcon Futura Coatings will become part of ITW Perfo…
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August 11, 2005
GEt INSIDE the Italian Paint Industry with IRL’s New Study
What is the largest national paint industry in Western Europe, as well as the second largest market after Germany? The answer is Italy, and IRL has a new study that provides fresh insi…
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August 11, 2005
While hardly a dramatic shift, it appears that medium-dark metallic gray is gaining favor in the luxury segment of the automotive market—typically the trendsetting category in the marketplace.
According to DuPont Automotive’s 2003 color…
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August 11, 2005
BASF Coatings and Shanghai Eastern Star Automobile Trading Co., Ltd., the sales and after-sales service partner of Mercedes-Benz China Ltd. for automotive refinish in eastern China, will expand their partnership. The two organizations have signed an…
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August 11, 2005
After hearing about planned layoffs, angry workers at Sigma Coatings’ paint factory in Manage, Belgium held seven board members hostage for three days. The hostages were released after an agreement was made with the unions on a timetable for th…
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August 11, 2005
Toyota Europe brought together some of Europe’s most talented body and paint specialists in Brussels last November for the Toyota Pan-European Body and Paint Skills challenge. The event was held in cooperation with Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes, w…
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August 11, 2005
Red Spot Paint and Varnish, Co., Inc., which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2003, has announced that its Evansville, IN and Westland, MI manufacturing sites have been registered to the ISO 14001 international environmental standard.…
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