HOUSTON - International Paint LLC, an Akzo Nobel company, has opened a new distribution center to serve its customers throughout Pittsburgh and the surrounding Tri-State region.

HOUSTON - International Paint LLC, an Akzo Nobel company, has opened a new distribution center to serve its customers throughout Pittsburgh and the surrounding Tri-State region.

The new 8,500-sq.-ft. facility will offer a full range of high-performance protective and specialty coatings to the growing clientele in the industrial, aviation, OEM, mining, energy and metal-fabrication markets.

International Paint’s decision to open the new facility is the first step of a larger, long-term effort to expand distribution of its high-performance protective coatings throughout the Northeast. The distribution center will feature state-of-the-art technology including two automated tinting machines that accommodate both solvent- and water-based coatings.

The Pittsburgh Distribution Center is located in the Pittsburgh Airport Business Park in Coraopolis, Pa.