PPG Industries held a seminar on eco-friendly painting for automotive collision repair in Shenzhen, China, to positively respond to the city’s 2014 Air Quality Improvement Initiative.
Arkema has finalized the first stage of its acrylics assets acquisition project in Taixing, China, and now has access to a modern and competitive 160,000 t/year acrylic acid production capacity in Asia for the sum of $240 million.
The National Titanium Dioxide Co. Ltd. (Cristal) has entered into an agreement to acquire the titanium dioxide assets of Jiangxi Tikon Titanium Co. Ltd.
PPG Industries and Henan Billions Chemical Co. Ltd. held a ceremony to mark the completion of Henan Billions’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) manufacturing and research facility in the Henan Province of China.
The plant engineering company Dürr is building a resource-saving Eco+Paintshop for BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. (BBA) in Dadong in China. The paint shop will feature a wide range of the technological innovations for sustainable automotive painting.
In a new study, GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth over RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 million tons.
Specialty chemicals group LANXESS is strengthening its production network in China to meet demand for iron oxide pigments and is adding a mixing and milling plant to the pigment plant already under construction in Ningbo, China.
