With thousands of children on their way back to school, many without basic tools such as pens, pencils and notebooks, employees of Axalta Coating Systems organized a school supply drive at Axalta’s North American headquarters in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

PPG recently opened a distribution center in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, to serve its PPG-Comex business.

Axalta Coating Systems has acquired the business of Geeraets Autolak, a distributor of Axalta’s Cromax^® refinish coating products in the Netherlands for nearly 40 years.

AkzoNobel reported a second quarter with positive developments in profitability in all three business areas, despite currency pressures and a challenging market environment.

Axalta Coating Systems has purchased the automotive interior rigid thermoplastics coatings business of Michigan-based United Paint and Chemical Corp.

AkzoNobel has joined forces with Dutch sailor Simeon Tienpont to form team AkzoNobel, with the express aim of winning the 2017/2018 Volvo Ocean Race safely and sustainably.

Axalta Coating Systems has completed its acquisition of High Performance Coating Sdn. Bhd., a leader in refinish coatings in Southeast Asia.

The Global Top 10 and PCI 25 is a ranking of the top global and North American coatings manufacturers. Rankings are based on 2015 coatings sales. Sales of other, non-coating products are not included.

Axalta Coating Systems officially opened its newly expanded European Technology Centre (ETC) in Wuppertal, Germany, on June 8, 2016.

On May 26, AkzoNobel inaugurated its new €6.5 million technology center in Songjiang, Shanghai.