According to the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, the global consumption of coatings, adhesives, sealants and inks (CASI) was 54.1 million tons in 2014 worth $182.6 billion.
I don’t want to sound alarmist, but I was deeply disturbed by the recent pronouncements from the IPCC. This learned international organisation concluded that the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has grown to levels not seen for 3 million years, and that about half of cumulative anthropogenic CO2 emissions between 1750 and 2010 have occurred in the last 40 years.
It is July and along with the barbeques, fireworks and fireflies at dusk, those of us in the paint industry can look forward to PCI’s annual ranking of the industry’s top players.
Over the past several months the landscape at the federal level in Canada has been experiencing a quiet, but significant shift on the regulatory front.
According to a new report published by Infiniti Research, the global coatings market is forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 5.46 percent through to 2015, with the industry set to hit 8.7 billion gallons and $107 billion by the year 2017.
Manufacturers in the coatings industry are responding to growing competitive pressure by re-examining every step in their process, searching for opportunities for improvement.
