Four manufacturing facilities of Asian Paints in Ankleshwar (Gujarat), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Kasna (Uttar Pradesh) and Patancheru (Andhra Pradesh) have been presented with the British Safety Council Sword of Honour in a ceremony recently held at the historic Goldsmiths' Hall, London.
Akzo Nobel Coatings GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, and Mazda Austria Ges.m.b.H, Klagenfurt, have reached a local agreement to supply Sikkens® car refinishes to Mazda's Austrian dealers.
Now in its ninth year, the Coatings for Plastics Symposium, organized under the auspices of PCI magazine, is one of the few symposiums dedicated entirely to this subject.
PPG Industries has begun construction of a facility in Taiwan that will apply the company's electrocoat and dip-spin coatings to fasteners and small parts.
In a move that will aid industry, on Dec. 13, 2005, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the final rule deleting methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) as a Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP) under the Clean Air Act (CAA).
The Paint Product Stewardship Initiative (PPSI) will hold its second full-dialogue meeting in Sarasota, Fla., on May 3-4, 2006, in conjunction with Florida's annual Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)/Small Quantity Generator (SQG) conference.
Information Research (IRL) has recently published a statistical study that highlights the best growth opportunities for paint exporters in "The World's Fastest-Growing Paint Export Markets." About half of these markets are demonstrating value growth, which is trailing volume growth, while the other half are proving much more valuable in purely commercial terms.
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