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AkzoNobel, Icelandair 'Let Fly' with New Livery
Iceland's rich and vivid history is being celebrated with colorful new livery launched by Icelandair, which was specially created using AkzoNobel products. The Icelandic national airline's new Boeing 757-300 looks stunning with its&n…06.22.18
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Sumitomo Chemical, BASF ‘Take Major Step’ in Global Development of Novel Fungicide
Sumitomo Chemical and BASF announced that under an existing joint development framework, Sumitomo Chemical has submitted a registration application in the EU for the novel fungicide compound with the ISO common name metyltetraprole. The fungicide, di…06.22.18
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Miltec UV Hires Oliver Hamann as Director of Operations
Oliver Hamann was hired as Miltec UV’s director of operations. He joined Miltec on June 11, 2018 and brings over 20 years of extensive knowledge in Systems Engineering, Opto-Mechanical Design and Manufacturing, Fiber Optics, Lasers, Microscopy,…06.22.18
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U.S. Green Building Council Announces 2018 Greenbuild Leadership Awards in Mexico City
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced the recipients of the 2018 Greenbuild Leadership Awards. César Ulises Treviño, Carrier and FINSA will be honored at the inaugural Greenbuild Mexico conference in Mexico City du…06.22.18
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DIC Establishes Pigments Technical Center Asia Pacific in Indonesia
DIC Corporation established the Pigments Technical Center Asia Pacific. The facility is located on the site of wholly owned Indonesian subsidiary PT. DIC Graphics’ Karawang Plant, which is engaged primarily in the production of ph…06.21.18
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UK and EU Paint, Coatings and Printing Ink Industry United Ahead of Brexit Talks
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) and CEPE (the European association representing paints and inks) have pledged to continue their close working relationship beyond Brexit. The UK and EU industries’ supply chains are heavily interconnected,…06.21.18
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Clariant Breaks Ground on JV Production Site in Cangzhou, China
Clariant and Beijing Tiangang Auxiliary Co., Ltd. conducted a groundbreaking ceremony in Cangzhou, China, just over 200 km south of Beijing. The ceremony marked the start of the construction of a world-class production facility for stabilizers f…06.21.18
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AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals Celebrates 10 Years at Ningbo Site
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Ningbo site in China. The site grew to be the company's largest site in China and employs more than 500 people. "The development of Ningbo has been an incredible j…06.21.18
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ChemQuest Launches 2017-2020 North American Market Report for Adhesives, Sealants
Through its partnership with The Adhesive and Sealant Council Inc., the ChemQuest Group researched, prepared and delivered ASC’s 2017-2020 North American Market Report for Adhesives and Sealants with a Global Overview. ChemQuest's 832-page…06.20.18
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Clariant Inaugurates New Additives Production Facilities in China
New facilities to produce specialty additives AddWorks and Ceridust for plastics, coatings and ink industries.06.20.18
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Axalta Publishes Sustainability Report
Axalta issued its Sustainability Report 2016-2017, highlighting the company’s advancements in sustainable business practices, including technology and operations. Axalta’s Sustainability Report was prepared using the Global Reporting Init…06.20.18
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PPG Increases Industrial Coatings Products Prices in North America
PPG said it will implement a price increase of up to six percent on all of its industrial coatings technologies in North America. The change is effective July 1, 2018, or as permissible by contract, and applies to all industrial coatings end-use segm…06.20.18
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Future Mobility, Human Needs Inspire BASF’s 2018-19 Automotive Color Trends
The need to stay authentic in a world where technology continues to blur the lines between reality and artificiality is the driving force behind the BASF’s 2018-19 Automotive Color Trends theme – “Keep it Real”. As innovati…06.20.18
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The Home Depot Becomes Third Major U.S. Retailer to Ban Deadly Paint Strippers
The world’s largest home improvement retailer, The Home Depot, announced that it will phase out the use of the toxic chemicals methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) in its paint removal products by the end of this year. The company,…06.19.18
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Nominations Being Accepted for Tnemec’s 2018 Tank of the Year Contest
Entries are being accepted for Tnemec’s 2018 Tank of the Year competition, said Doug Hansen, director of sales, Water Tank Market. All tank styles are eligible and the deadline for nominating projects is Oct. 1, 2018. “We look forward…06.19.18
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AkzoNobel Completes Digital Color Recreation of Famous Van Gogh Painting
Color experts at AkzoNobel have completed the digital recreation of a Van Gogh masterpiece. The three-year project endeavored to get as close as possible to reconstructing the original color scheme used by the artist when he first made the paintin…06.19.18
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Axalta Sells 50,000th Spectrophotometer
Axalta sold its 50,000th spectrophotometer globally since the launch of the first generation of handheld devices for the refinish industry in 2005. To commemorate this accomplishment, BYK-Gardner created a limited-edition spectrophotometer,…06.18.18
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Synthomer Launches New Revacryl UltraGreen 1647
Synthomer unveiled its new Revacryl UltraGreen 1647, an innovative, styrene acrylic binder for interior wall paints. With its wet scrub resistance and pigment loading, it paves the way for wall paints fulfilling EN13300 class 1 wet scru…06.18.18
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Croatian EcoCortec Plant Receives Best Supplier Award
EcoCortec received a Best Supplier Award from its distributor company, Tribotec, Sweden. Tribotec chose EcoCortec as a result of its excellent customer service, logistics and short lead times. “These acknowledgments are wind in the ba…06.18.18
