Weekly Recap: Nippon Paint, AkzoNobel, PPG Top This Week’s Stories

Here is Coatings World’s weekly recap—the most viewed news stories on our site for the week ending Nov. 1, 2024.

Nippon Paint’s plans to acquire AOC was the most read story this week, with AkzoNobel’s 3Q 2024 results in second and PPG reaching an agreement to sell its US and Canadian architectural coatings business to American Industrial in third. The Eastern Coatings Show 2025’ call of papers was the fourth most read with AkzoNobel opening its first applicator training facility in Asia Pacific rounding out the top five.

Here are our top five most viewed stories from the past week:

1. Nippon Paint Holdings to Acquire AOC from Lone Star Funds

2. AkzoNobel Delivers Continued Growth in Q3 2024

3. PPG Reaches Agreement to Sell Architectural Coatings U.S. and Canada business to American Industrial

4. Eastern Coatings Show Issues Its 2025 Call for Papers

5. AkzoNobel Opens First Applicator Training Facility in Asia Pacific

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Have a great week!

Dave Savastano
Editor