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Paint and coatings demand in Brazil is estimated at 1,303,200 tons for 2008 and could grow to create a market of 1,651,000 tons by 2013.

Demand for wood-protection coatings and preservatives is forecast to increase 2.2 percent per year to $3.0 billion in 2013.

International Paint Protective Coatings, an AkzoNobel company, will merge its distribution center in Baton Rouge, LA, with the local AkzoNobel company-owned store in the same locale.

The Lubrizol Corp. is closing its Chagrin Falls overprint coatings manufacturing facility.

Sherwin-Williams has been awarded the contract to supply marine coatings as part of a three-year overhaul of the super carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.

Neutral-silver and gold aircraft window coatings by PPG Industries’ Aerospace Transparencies group that were on display during the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual meeting and convention demonstrate aesthetic options in solar-reflective coating technology.

Albert Heuser, currently President of the Petrochemicals division for BASF, will become President, Regional Division Market and Business Development Asia Pacific, as of March 1, 2010.

Celanese Corp. has announced it is expanding its vinyl acetate/ethylene (VAE) manufacturing facility at its Nanjing, China, integrated chemical complex.

Akzo Nobel N.V (AkzoNobel) has announced its results for the third quarter of 2009, reporting a revenue decline of 10 percent to EUR 3,639 million.

BASF has announced first figures for the third quarter of 2009. Sales were EUR 12.8 billion and thus 19 percent less than in the same period of 2008 and 2.4 percent more than in the second quarter of 2009.