Hardide Coatings, a UK-based provider of advanced tungsten carbide-based coatings, has signed a supply agreement with the General Electric Co. Inc. (GE).

The Valspar Corp., sponsor of the Valspar Championship through 2017, is committed to bringing the transformative power of color to the tournament, both on and off the course.

AkzoNobel has completed the expansion of its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai in China, doubling annual production capacity and creating the company's biggest plant for packaging coatings in the world.

PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced POWERCRON EPIC^™ electrocoats (e-coats), a line of next-generation, cationic-epoxy products that will be used for the first time in North America by MetoKote Corp., Lima, OH, a key PPG partner.

PPG Industries has completed its previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Hi-Temp Coatings Technology Co. Inc., a privately owned supplier of high-temperature-resistant and insulative coatings, based in Boxborough, MA.

BASF is expanding its industrial coatings business in the growth market of Africa.

Dutch Boy^® announced its 2014 color trends forecast that sets the stage for new days ahead.

The Valspar Corp. has been selected as the recipient of a John Deere supplier innovation award for 2013.

PPG Industries’ protective and marine coatings (PMC) business received The Society of Protective Coatings (SSPC) 2014 Military Coatings Project Award of Excellence for the performance of AMERCOAT^®240 and PSX^®700SG coatings on the USS Freedom, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat fleet.

Yeagle Technology Inc. (YTI) has expanded the range of its 24/7 emergency service for vacuum equipment to include the continental United States.