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  • Puerto Rico Focuses on Tourism for Recovery

    Puerto Rico Focuses on Tourism for Recovery

    Puerto Rico is focusing much of its recovery efforts on the development of tourism infrastructure and housing in hopes of putting both Hurricane Maria and COVID-19 behind it. Maria hit more than 786,000 homes on the island in September 2017, killing…
    Charles W. Thurston, Latin America Correspondent 08.10.20
  • Vigilance on Chemicals Critical in Canada

    Vigilance on Chemicals Critical in Canada

    CPCA recently launched a robust Chemical Management Substance Database as part of its Canada CoatingsHUB resources in support of the coatings industry efforts to manage the large volume of data created by Canada’s ongoing assessment of chemi…
    Gary LeRoux, President and CEO, CPCA 08.10.20
  • The Asia Pacific Coatings Market

    The Asia Pacific Coatings Market

    Osamu Kirihara, Xilin Li and Douglas Bohn of Orr & Boss Consulting Incorporated
    Osamu Kirihara, Xilin Li and Douglas Bohn, Orr & Boss Consulting Incorporated 08.10.20
  • Persuasive Selling

    Persuasive Selling

    The art of persuasive selling has evolved from the days of the fast-talking, traveling salesman and the three-martini lunch. No longer is product selection and supplier choice a simple matter of personal preference and price. Each selling sit…
    Phil Phillips, PhD & Gary Shawhan, Chemark Consulting 08.10.20
  • High Performance Pigments Market

    High Performance Pigments Market

    Manufacturers of HPP discuss the state of the industry in the wake of COVID-19 crisis.
    Kerry Pianoforte, Editor 08.10.20
  • The Marine Coatings Market

    The Marine Coatings Market

    There is still room for growth despite a slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Anthony Locicero, Associate Editor 08.10.20
  • COVID-19 Impact on Africa’s Paint Industry

    COVID-19 Impact on Africa’s Paint Industry

    The COVID-19 pandemic has diversely affected the African paints and coatings industry, including shutdowns of production operations and disruption of distribution channels as governments in the region imposed movement and business restrictions to con…
    Shem Oirere, Africa Correspondent 08.10.20
  • Coatings World Expert Panel Sessions: Conducting Business in 2020, a Year Like No Other

    Coatings World Expert Panel Sessions: Conducting Business in 2020, a Year Like No Other

    Coatings World is hosting the next free webinar in this series to hear from three coatings experts on how our industry is adapting in a very challenging year.
    08.05.20
  • Unlocking the Benefits of Bio-Based Susterra® 1,3 Propanediol in Industrial PUDs

    Unlocking the Benefits of Bio-Based Susterra® 1,3 Propanediol in Industrial PUDs

    Register today for this FREE webinar by DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 10:00 AM ET.
    07.28.20
  • Top Companies Report

    Top Companies Report

    Coatings World is proud to bring the industry our annual Top Companies Report – the only truly global ranking of the top manufacturers of paint and coatings. Our editorial staff has spent many hours researching the industry to provide you with…
    07.09.20
  • New Cloud-Based, Remote Performance Monitoring and Alert System for AODD Pumps

    New Cloud-Based, Remote Performance Monitoring and Alert System for AODD Pumps

    Wilden SafeGuard promises to be a true game-changer in optimizing AODD-pump performance, reliability, and cost of operation and maintenance.
  • Evaluating High-Gloss, Direct-to-Metal, FEVE-Based Waterborne Coatings

    Evaluating High-Gloss, Direct-to-Metal, FEVE-Based Waterborne Coatings

    Waterborne coatings are becoming popular because they are more environmentally friendly than other formulations. Although waterborne coatings are commonly used in architecture for aesthetics purposes, their limitations often prohibit use in industria…
    Donald C. Lawson III, AGC Chemicals Americas, Inc. 07.06.20
  • COVID-19: Russian Coatings Market ‘Rolling with the Punches’

    COVID-19: Russian Coatings Market ‘Rolling with the Punches’

    Russian coating manufacturers were unable to avoid the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it seems some were hit harder than others. Per an April Ernst & Young opinion poll – 230 Russian companies were interviewed – the…
    Vladislav Vorotnikov, Russia Correspondent 07.06.20
  • Can Automotive Coatings Save the Market?

    Can Automotive Coatings Save the Market?

    The automotive market could be a bright spot as China begins to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Arnold Wang, China Correspondent 07.06.20
  • EU Eyes COVID-19 Bounce Back Plan

    EU Eyes COVID-19 Bounce Back Plan

    European governments – the vast majority being European Union members – are poised to pour large sums of money into COVID-19 rescue plans. But the massive support program, for which the EU alone is planning to allocate €750 billio…
    Sean Milmo, European Correspondent 07.06.20