Tikkurila Coatings Oy, responsible for Kemira's industrial coatings activities, has acquired Akzo Nobel Coatings' general industrial liquid coatings activities in Hungary.
The Valspar Corp. has acquired De Beer Lakfabrieken, a privately owned manufacturer of automotive-refinish coatings based in Lelystad, The Netherlands.
ICI Paints' North American division has acquired eight architectural-paint stores in the San Joaquin Valley of California from Wilshire Paint Co. in a transaction that ICI Paints said expands the company's total of retail paint stores to 75 in the state.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued an updated list of coatings-manufacturing companies that will be obliged to pay millions of dollars in new fees based on estimated emissions of VOCs from architectural coatings sold in the state.
Automotive-color trend watchers at DuPont Co. and PPG, echoing predictions issued earlier by BASF, say color choices will shift dramatically in the coming years as new effects and shades mark a departure from the recent dominance of silver and white.
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