Articles Tagged with ''coatings manufacturers''

PPG will continue to be the official paint of the NHL in the United States and Canada, and will participate as a sponsor of the 2023 Discover NHL Winter Classic^® featuring the Pittsburgh Penguins versus the Boston Bruins. The PPG partnership will be visible in various ways, such as on-site activation, branded dasher boards, and in-stadium signage.

After completion of closing conditions, KANSAI HELIOS will acquire all business assets of Becker Industrie SAS in the railway coatings segment. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023. Beckers will continue to serve its railway customers in India and China.

The goal was to revitalize an underpass leading to Klingenberg’s middle school, and renovate the school yard. The project brought together more than 90 PPG volunteers, who spent three days – and a total of 1,900 hours – beautifying the underpass and the school yard at the Dr. Konrad Middle school.

The list recognizes the 500 most responsible companies in the United States, across 14 different industry subcategories. The companies were selected based on publicly available key performance indicators derived from CSR and Sustainability reports. The key performance indicators focused on company performance across all three areas of ESG. 

AkzoNobel will nominate – subject to shareholder approval – Ben Noteboom as a member of the supervisory board at the Annual General Meeting being held in April 2023. The board intends to subsequently elect him as chair, succeeding Nils Andersen, who will retire as chair and member of the board at the same time.

Sheboygan Paint Company appointed Paul Krueger as president and CEO, effective January 3, 2023. Krueger brings 35 years of industrial coatings experience to his new role. Peter Kirton, current president and CEO, will retire at the end of 2022.

AkzoNobel has completed the acquisition of the wheel liquid coatings business of Lankwitzer Lackfabrik GmbH, a deal that strengthens the company’s performance coatings portfolio. The acquired business will expand AkzoNobel’s existing powder coatings offering as well as the range of products the company supplies. The deal was first announced in July 2022.

Edward Bulmer Natural Paint has secured a six-figure funding deal from NatWest, and its asset finance partner Lombard, to support its continued growth. The business, which is based in Pembridge, United Kingdom, produces a range of natural paints, and employs over 20 people.

PPG’s GLIDDEN MAX FLEX™ spray paint and primer has been awarded a Best of What’s New Award 2022 by Popular Science magazine in the home category. Glidden Max Flex spray paint was awarded based on its revolutionary lacquer-based formula.

Five teams have been established following a recent Discovery Day. AkzoNobel says this has now set in motion the next phase of its initiative, which was launched with 28 partners – including customers, suppliers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and academia – in May 2022.