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Published August 30, 2012
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group and DuPont today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby Carlyle will purchase DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) for $4.9 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close… Read More »
Published August 27, 2012
BASF Coatings and the design agency Are We Designer are joint winners of the “red dot award: communication design” for the design of their global automotive color trend book.
The red dot award is a worldwide design awards. More than 6,00… Read More »
Published August 16, 2012
Revenue within the US automotive coatings manufacturing market has been forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7percent over the next five years, to reach a total market value of $1.5 billion in 2017, according to new research… Read More »
Published August 15, 2012
BASF Shanghai Coatings Company Limited is investing in a new basecoat plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park in Shanghai, China. The new plant will increase the company's local production capacity for basecoat by 13,500 tons per year. Basec… Read More »
By Charles W. Thurston, Latin America Correspondent
Published July 24, 2012
Growth has OEM’s ramping up investments in a major way. Read More »
Published July 16, 2012
Machinery and plant engineer Dürr has installed a total of 155 painting and application robots at VW in Bratislava in 2011 and 2012. Forty-five robots are for a new paint shop at the Slovakian auto plant. Dürr has installed another 110 robo… Read More »
Published July 12, 2012
BASF designers present global trend forecast; Green, bronze and brown – report shows which colors will increase in popularity. Read More »
Published July 6, 2012
DuPont has expanded the DuPont Automotive Center (DAC) in Nagoya and renamed it the DuPont Japan Innovation Center. The expansion and renaming reflects the substantially broader capability of the center to include other industries with remaining focu… Read More »
Published June 21, 2012
The automotive coatings group of BASF announced that General Motors has transitioned to BASF’s CathoGuard 800 cathodic e-coat at several of its automotive plants throughout the world including Russia, China, Brazil, and North America.
CathoGua… Read More »
Published May 29, 2012
Russian auto maker GM-AvtoVAZ has presented BASF Coatings with its 2011 Supplier Award. Ilya Agapov, BASF Coatings Regional account manager, accepted the award from Julia Tril, responsible for quality at GM-AvtoVAZ, and procurement manager Denis Schu… Read More »
Published April 10, 2012
U.S. Paint is expanding its line of original OEM coatings offered for the motorcycle aftermarket to include 11 colors manufactured for Bombardier Recreational Products’ line of Can-Am Spyder vehicles. Each paint product is available with its mi… Read More »
Published March 21, 2012
For the eighth time in 10 years, BASF has received General Motors’ Supplier of the Year Award.
Hans Engel, chairman and chief executive of BASF Corporation, accepted the award on behalf of the company’s coatings division during General M… Read More »
By Tim Wright, Editor
Published March 19, 2012
Lower costs, reduced air pollution and better performance are key drivers in automotive coatings and suppliers like BASF continue to offer new technologies and new products for the automotive industry. Read More »
Published March 16, 2012
Dürr has built paint shops for its customer Shanghai General Motors (SGM) at locations in Shanghai and Yantai, as well as one paint shop in Shenyang. The company said it is building another plant at the Shenyang location as the general contracto… Read More »
Published March 6, 2012
BASF has launched M-ROB, its application robot, at its Würzburg, Germany site. The multifunction application robot allows application that simulates conditions at the paintline and as such, meets the requirements of the automotive industry. Star… Read More »

