Formed only in 1999, Becker Industrial Coatings Malaysia has outgrown its original manufacturing plant and has now successfully commissioned a larger plant of 5,500 square meters in Kota Kemuning, Selangor.
Akzo Nobel underlines its commitment to the North American automotive plastic coatings market by breaking ground on an 11,000-sq-ft production expansion project that will incorporate state-of-the art equipment and processes for plastics coatings.
The American Chemical Society's Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) seeks nominations for the 2007 Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings.
Some 18 months after the signing of the joint venture agreement between Clariant and Hangzhou Baihe Chemical Co. Ltd. for the production of high-performance (HP) pigments in Hangzhou, southwest of Shanghai, China, the new facility has gone on-stream.
Worldwide holographic and specialty coated film manufacturer CFC International, Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Tikkurila Oy, which is responsible for Kemira's paints and coatings business, and the Germany-based Sto AG have agreed on establishing a joint venture called Sto-Tikkurila in Moscow.