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World Coatings Council publishes first global sustainability report
The World Coatings Council has announced the publication of its inaugural report on "Sustainability in the Global Paint & Coatings Industry".
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Tiger Infrastructure Partners acquires International Aerospace Coatings
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a middle market growth infrastructure investor, has announced the acquisition of International Aerospace Coatings ("IAC"), a market-leading aviation services provider headquartered...
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Azelis acquires Chemiplas Agencies
Azelis has signed an agreement to acquire Chemiplas Agencies, one of the leading distributors of specialty chemicals, plastic raw materials and ingredients in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands....
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Venator to measure the carbon footprint of its products
Venator is working with Atos – a global leader in digital transformation – to measure the carbon footprint of its products.
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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year
The European Coatings team wishes you happy holidays and all the best for 2023.
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Kansai Helios acquires Beckers’ global railway coatings business
Kansai Helios will, after completion of closing conditions, acquire all business assets of Beckers in the Railway Coatings segment, such as recipes and railway homologations and customer database – excluding...
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Nouryon expands global alkoxylation network
Nouryon has expanded its alkoxylation footprint in Southeast Asia through an asset purchase on Jurong Island, Singapore.
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Crop Energies to build renewable ethyl acetate plant
Crop Energies will build a plant for the production of renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol. Foreseen location is the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park, Elsteraue, Germany.
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PCI doubles capacity in dispersion production
PCI Augsburg is doubling its dispersion production capacity with a new dispersion plant at the company's headquarters in Augsburg, Germany.
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Weilburger Coatings takes over operational business from Paint Systems
As per January 01, 2023, Weilburger Coatings GmbH will take over the operational business of Paint Systems’ industrial coatings range focusing on the segments automotive and commercial vehicles.
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Covestro starts production of Naphthylen-Diisocyanate in Thailand
Covestro has recently started up the production of Naphthylen-Diisocyanate (NDI) at a newly built plant in its Map Ta Phut site in Thailand.
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Interview: “We see a need to catch up“
Merck has commissioned a fully automated system for digital colour measurement of pigment products. Dr. Eva Kriegbaum, Head of Surface Solutions Gernsheim, on the degree of automation in the industry and...
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Akzo Nobel finalises acquisition of Lankwitzer’s wheel coating business
Akzo Nobel has completed the acquisition of Lankwitzer Lackfabrik’s aluminum wheel liquid coatings business.
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Global market for paints and coatings grows by 1.3 percent in Q3 2022
According to estimates by B2B market research agency Coating Insights, the global market for paints and coatings grew by + 1.3 percent in volume terms in the third quarter of 2022. The "TOP 11 Global Players"...