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Central Asia Begins to Address Coatings Safety Issues

Central Asia Begins to Address Coatings Safety Issues

The situation with coating safety in Central Asian countries is alarming, with no real efforts being taken to properly address it, local environmentalists admitted during the IPEN Regional workshop on lead pollution in the countries of Eastern Europe…
Vladislav Vorotnikov, Russia Correspondent 01.20.20
Raw Material Issues In Indian Paint Industry

Raw Material Issues In Indian Paint Industry

Even under the best of circumstances, raw materials represent a near-constant headache for paint and coating producers. With Middle East Asia simmering with tensions and a global trade war growing more intense, volatile raw material prices have posed…
Yogender Singh, India, Asia-Pacific Correspondent 01.20.20
Lanxess Continues Latin America Investment Drive

Lanxess Continues Latin America Investment Drive

Lanxess announced a new investment in Brazil that will increase its manufacturing presence in that country, as well as the region, permitting local sourcing for a growing demand for biocidal additives in the paint and coatings market. The acq…
Charles W. Thurston, Latin America Correspondent 01.20.20
Europe’s OEM Automotive Coatings Market Expands

Europe’s OEM Automotive Coatings Market Expands

Europe’s OEM automotive sector has been experiencing a spate of investments in new and expanded automated paint shops. Due to the car sector’s leadership in the development of product and process technologies, the advances in paint app…
Sean Milmo, European Correspondent 01.20.20
Impact of AfCFTA on Africa’s Paint and Coatings Market

Impact of AfCFTA on Africa’s Paint and Coatings Market

At least 44 member-countries of the Africa Union signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement
Shem Oirere, Africa Correspondent 12.11.19
Brenntag Expands Assets, Sales in Latin America Network

Brenntag Expands Assets, Sales in Latin America Network

Brenntag AG is once again expanding its pan-Latin America network, this time with the addition of Brazil’s Quimisa SA, including the logistics subsidiary Quimilog Transportes e Logística Ltda. Quimisa is a distributor of about three d…
Charles W. Thurston, Latin America Correspondent 12.11.19
Customization, Digitalization in European Coatings Sector Growing

Customization, Digitalization in European Coatings Sector Growing

Along the coatings value chain, companies are striving to satisfy the individual needs of customers.
Sean Milmo, European Correspondent 12.11.19
Brazil’s Abrafati Breaks Records with 2019 Show

Brazil’s Abrafati Breaks Records with 2019 Show

Abrafati logged a 40 percent increase in exhibitors this year – up to more than 10,000 – in Sao Paulo, of which about 40 percent were international.
Charles W. Thurston, Latin America Correspondent 11.11.19
Russia Ramps Up Marine Coatings Production

Russia Ramps Up Marine Coatings Production

The demand for marine coatings in Russia is on the rise driven by a full-fledged boom in the domestic shipbuilding industry. The domestic production has been seen steadily growing thanks to the efforts of some international companies launching their…
Vladislav Vorotnikov, Russia Correspondent 11.11.19
Simplification Drives Innovation for Protective and Marine Coatings

Simplification Drives Innovation for Protective and Marine Coatings

Innovation in protective and marine coatings is being driven by the need for greater simplification with fewer coatings layers and greater reliance on performance data. This was evident at press conferences by Hempel and PPG Industries on the late…
Sean Milmo, European Correspondent 09.30.19
Architecture Coatings Consumption Shows Softening Signals

Architecture Coatings Consumption Shows Softening Signals

When regional expansion in China is completed, the architecture coatings market will enter a maturing stage.
Arnold Wang, China Correspondent 09.30.19
How Africa Can Mitigate High TiO2 Prices

How Africa Can Mitigate High TiO2 Prices

Africa’s population is now 1.18 billion and is set to double by 2050 creating huge demand for urban infrastructure and housing that could trigger more growth for the region’s paint and ceramic industries, key drivers in increasing consump…
Shem Oirere, Africa Correspondent 09.30.19
Mexico Boosts Oil & Gas CapEx and Maintenance Spending

Mexico Boosts Oil & Gas CapEx and Maintenance Spending

The demand for new industrial coatings, as well as corrosion-control and other maintenance coatings, is expected to rise with the increased spending.
Charles W. Thurston, Latin America Correspondent 09.30.19
The Paints and Coatings Industry in the Philippines

The Paints and Coatings Industry in the Philippines

The Philippines is primarily considered a newly industrialized country, which has an economy in transition from one based on agriculture to one based more on manufacturing and services. Though hitherto catered by domestic paints and coating p…
Yogender Singh, India, Asia-Pacific Correspondent 09.03.19
Printing Inks: An Overlooked Segment

Printing Inks: An Overlooked Segment

Russian coatings manufacturers have applied to the federal government seeking the introduction of higher import duties on printed inks and removal of restrictions that nearly drove some companies in the industry to the edge of bankruptcy. O…
Vladislav Vorotnikov, Russia Correspondent 09.03.19