Worldwide demand for powder coatings has increased over the last few decades, due in part to their lower environmental impact when compared to other coatings.
According to statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China’s automobile production volume and sales volume in 2011 was 18.4189 million units and 18.5051 million units respectively, increasing by 0.84 percent and 2.45 percent.
PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, has donated RMB 900,000 (approximately $145,000) to the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University to help set up a Social Responsibility Research Fund through the Tsinghua University Education Foundation (TUEF).
PPG Industries celebrated the opening of its new automotive OEM (original equipment manufacturer) coatings development and application center in Tianjin, China.
Wacker Chemie AG officially ramped up its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Nanjing site (Jiangsu province, China).
Pump Solutions Group (PSG®), a business unit within Dover Corp. and a leader in the manufacture of positive displacement pumps and related technologies, has opened a new PSG Shanghai Commercial Sales Office in Shanghai, China.
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (MSC), Columbus, OH, a leading manufacturer and supplier of epoxy resins and curing agents, has opened new curing agent manufacturing capabilities at a facility in China.
AkzoNobel has announced its intention to invest a further EUR 65 million in China. The investment will be used to boost capacity and improve operational excellence at AkzoNobel's surface chemistry manufacturing sites in Boxing and Ningbo.
