This issue is dedicated to our 2011 International Buyers’ Guide, an annual listing of companies offering pigments, resins, additives, solvents and oils as well as laboratory and production equipment. If you are a formulator, the information here can serve as a starting point and an invaluable asset in your search for suppliers to serve your formulation needs, particularly in today’s business environment where supply issues are in constant need of attention.
    
Keep this issue close at hand throughout the next year, as it can provide you with raw material and equipment providers, contacts, web site addresses and e-mail details. You can also search online at our newly redesigned website CoatingsWorld.com.
    
Finding the right supplier and developing a relationship with them could be the key to unlocking formulation challenges that could be blocking growth opportunities, especially as markets thaw from the recession.
    
Don’t underestimate the value of a good supplier. Not only can a good supplier provide essential materials and/or equipment, but they can be a tremendous source of product, formulation and manufacturing information. Good luck in your search and let us know if we can be of any assistance.

Should your company be in our Buyers’ Guide?

If your company makes products used to formulate, produce or test paint and coatings, you can be included in the next print edition of Coatings World’s International Buyer’s Guide (September 2011). To be included in both the print edition and online, send us your contact details, including company name and the name of the person who is the appropriate contact, along with phone, fax and e-mail addresse to:

Coatings World International Buyers’ Guide
E-mail: twright@rodpub.com
70 Hilltop Road, Ramsey, NJ/USA 07446
Fax: 201-825-0553

Qualified companies will be sent a link to create a company profile online. I look forward to hearing from you.