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Challenges ahead for 2017

All in all, 2016 was a good year, according to the majority of Europe’s leading heads in the coatings industry who took part in ECJ’s Annual Survey. The ...

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ECS 2017: Survey on expected trends

Since its premiere in 1991, the European Coatings Show has developed into today’s biggest and most important event in the world for the coatings industry. The event...

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What’s in store at the world’s largest coatings show?

The preview for the European Coatings Show in April 2017 has just been released.

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Kansai Paint will acquire 100% of shares in Helios Coatings Group

With the purchase of Helios Group, Japanese company Kansai Paint intends to increase presence across Europe.

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Steamcrackers will be gradually restarted at BASF in Ludwigshafen

Following an intensive assessment of the safety status and in close coordination with the Southern Structure and Licensing Directorate (Struktur- und Genehmigungsdirektion...

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Supersize me: Helios wants to grow in Europe

Austria-based Ring International Holding acquired Slovenian paint manufacturer Helios in 2013. One headline entitled this "David takes over Goliath”. The ...