In the course of its expansion in the American market, Plasmatreat US, Elgin, IL, a subsidiary of Plasmatreat GmbH, Germany, has acquired the low-pressure plasma specialist 4th State Inc., Belmont, CA.
BASF has expanded its partnership with Nissan, now supplying the automaker with coatings for the Pathfinder and Infiniti models at its Smyrna plant in Tennessee.
International Paint LLC, an AkzoNobel company, has announced the opening of International Paint branded Protective Coatings Centers in strategic locations across the United States and Canada.
Coat’N’Cool, an Orange County, CA-based cool roof company, will serve as a vendor for New York City’s cool roof initiative, “NYC Cool Roofs,” and has been contracted to provide its cool roof product to cover the 14,000-square-foot roof of a New York City condominium building.
InnoVoc Solutions, a division of Gordon Composites, Inc., announced a breakthrough technology for powder coating plastics, composites and other nonconductive substrates.
The UK-based Long Term Development Group of Becker Industrial Coatings has become one of the first laboratories in the world to gain ISO 17025 (General Requirements for the Competence of Calibration and Testing Laboratories) accreditation for the testing of solar reflectance and other thermal properties of coatings and painted surfaces according to the ASTM Methods E903, C 1371 and E 1980.