Bercom Inc., the manufacturer of HANDy paint products, announced the winners of this year’s Online Video Contest during the HANDy Paint Products Film Festival on September 26, 2015, at the company’s Chanhassen, MN, headquarters.
It's more powerful than 180 F1 cars. It can travel a mile in 3.6 seconds. Its wheels spin 170 times a second. And its high-performance coatings system – supplied by AkzoNobel – is normally used on aircraft.
Axalta Coating Systems is expanding its presence in India with investments that will enable the company to double production capacity and construct an automotive OEM coatings development laboratory at its operations center in Savli in Gujarat State.
In order to better serve Southern California and the surrounding southwestern United States, US Coatings, St. Louis, MO, recently opened a warehouse and industrial tint center in Los Angeles.
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Orion) and Evonik Industries AG (Evonik) announced agreements on transactions where Orion will acquire Evonik’s 52 percent stake as well as Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH’s (DEG) 15 percent stake in Qingdao Evonik Chemical Co. Ltd. (QECC).
PPG Industries has completed its acquisition of a majority interest in the aerospace and automotive sealants and adhesives business of Le Joint Français (LJF), a long-term licensee of PPG’s aerospace sealant technology.
The British Coatings Federation (BCF) has launched a “Business Confidence Index” based on data gathered from members over the last three years. A third consecutive quarter with dropping confidence levels reflects the fact that UK manufacturing is struggling with reduced output and dwindling foreign demand for UK goods.