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.
According to a newly released market report, global demand for coatings is forecast to rise 5.2 percent per year to 51.6 million metric tons in 2017, valued at $186 billion.
A. Duie Pyle, the Northeast’s provider of asset-based supply chain solutions and transportation, is helping customers combat arctic weather and heavy snowstorms with its protect-from-freeze program.
PPG Industries’ North American architectural coatings business has taken a minority equity position in The Coatings Alliance LLC (TCA), a cooperative of 42 paint dealers in the United States and Canada. TCA is based in Buffalo, NY.
LORD Corp., Cary, NC, announced that Steve Meyer, Director of Global Sales, Aerospace & Defense, has been appointed to the Supplier Management Council’s (SMC) Board of Managers of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA).
Research and Markets announced an addition to its product offering. The report, Concise Analysis of the International Automotive Paints Market – Forecast to 2018, is now available.
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.
Manchester-based HMG Paints Ltd. has recently recruited Paul Walker as a Technical Sales Representative to bolster the company's expanding Industrial Sales team.
