Paint and coatings manufacturer and retailer Kelly-Moore Paint Co., San Carlos, CA, continues its retail expansion with the opening of a 5,400-square-foot store in Petaluma, located at 905 Lakeville Street. This is Kelly-Moore’s 105th retail store in northern California.
PPG Industries’ North American architectural coatings business has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Masterwork, an independent architectural paint distributor headquartered in Pittsburgh.
RPM International Inc. announced that Viapol Ltda., part of The Euclid Chemical Co. and RPM’s Performance Coatings Group, has acquired Betumat Quimica Ltda., a waterproofing products manufacturer based in Candeias (Bahia), Brazil.
PPG Industries’ protective and marine coatings (PMC) business has manufactured more than 100,000 gallons of coatings in a new small-batch process that began operation at its Little Rock, AR, manufacturing facility in January.
AkzoNobel’s protective coatings business announced that Scott Doering and Fernando Macedo have been appointed Vice Presidents overseeing the International® and Devoe® protective coatings brands within the North America East and West regions.
BASF Automotive Refinish recently recognized five collision repair shops as 2013 Performance Group Shops of the Year at its VisionPLUS Business Solutions Performance Group Conference in Clearwater, FL.
The UK’s Technology Strategy Board has awarded £0.5 million in funding to a consortium that will participate in a two-year collaborative research project to develop new, sustainable high-performance marine-fouling-control coatings.
