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Published August 11, 2008
California Paints Launches New Online Color Center
California Paints has launched its Online Color Center, a set of media-rich online color tools that enable customers and design professionals to interactively create unique and personalized paint co… Read More »
Published July 16, 2008
Rohm and Haas Company has announced plans to build an acrylic emulsion facility in Nhon Trach city, within the Dong Nai province of Vietnam. The company will spend approximately $10 million for this facility, which will serve the needs of the paint a… Read More »
Published July 16, 2008
Jotun breaks ground
on new factory in Korea
Jotun has expanded its operations in Korea due to the growing market there with a new factory. The old paint factory in Yangsan is already producing twice as much as it is meant to be, and cannot bear the… Read More »
Published July 16, 2008
Jotun to open 15 retail outlets in India
The Jotun Group will be opening three retail outlets in Kozhikode region of North Kerala in India. These will be located at Kozhikode, Payyannur and Perienthalmanna.
Jotun currently has eight retail outlets in… Read More »
Published July 16, 2008
AkzoNobel to sell its
Canadian paint brands
AkzoNobel has agreed to sell its Para and Crown Diamond decorative paint brands in Canada to General Paint Corp. The sale is in line with the commitment package which was agreed with the Canadian authorit… Read More »
Published July 16, 2008
BEHR ranks highest in satisfying customers with interior paint, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Interior Paint Satisfaction Study.
The study, now in its second year, measures customer satisfaction with interior paint by examining six… Read More »
By Tim Wright
Published July 14, 2008
It's that time of year again for Coatings World's Top Companies Report. In the pages that follow you will find our annual ranking of the leaders in the global coatings industry. Every year we list the leading manufacturers in the world, based… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
Information Research (IRL) has published a new report for the South American paint sector, A Profile of the Argentinean Paint Industry.
Paint demand in Argentina has been estimated at 265,000 tons in 2007 and with average growth of nearly seven perce… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
Tikkurila has signed an agreement to sell its 50% stake in Sto-Tikkurila to the other party, Sto AG of Germany.
The joint venture Sto-Tikkurila was established in June 2006 in Moscow, Russia, with the business idea of production and project sales of… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
The Kolkata-based paint manufacturer Berger Paints Ltd. has tied up with Italian Becker Acroma Spa to launch water-based and polyurethane wood-finish products for the Indian market.
These two products will be followed by glass paints, clear coats, fl… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
Berger Paints India Ltd. said in Mumbai on April 29, 2008 that it will invest $38.6 million to acquire Polish firm Bolix SA. The acquisition will be made through Berger’s wholly-owned subsidiary Cyprus.… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
Tikkurila, which is responsible for Kemira’s paints and coatings business, has strengthened its position in the Southeasteuropean paint market. The company has agreed to establish a trading company by the name of Tikkurila JUB Romania with the… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
Paint production at Hempel’s factory in Lundtofte, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, will continue until May 31, 2010. After that point, a new factory in Poland will take over. Hempel’s remaining departments in Lundtofte, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, will n… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
PPG Industries has dedicated a new 95,000-square-foot, 22-acre architectural coatings facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, about 15 miles east of Reno.
“This new paint manufacturing facility enhances PPG’s ability to provide supe… Read More »
Published June 12, 2008
BASF Coatings has started up its new production site for paints in Russia. The new facility at Pavlovski Posad, 60 kilometers east of Moscow, has an annual production capacity of 6,000 tons of paints including basecoats and clearcoats. The new site w… Read More »
