Sherwin-Williams has been awarded the contract to supply marine coatings as part of a three-year overhaul of the supercarrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.
Phoenix Coaters has announced plans to construct a new 303,000-square-foot building in Beaver Dam, WI, to house a new state-of-the-art e-coat and topcoat paint system.
The demands made of downstream users of chemicals and the provisions that they must comply with under the REACH Regulation were the subject of the first BYK Downstream Users’ Day, held in Düsseldorf, Germany.
BASF has outlined its Strategy 2020 for Asia Pacific, with the goal of growing a average of two percentage points faster than the Asia-Pacific chemical market each year. With expected market growth of four to five percent per year, this would double regional sales by 2020 while earning a premium on cost of capital.