Joseph Donahue has joined Valspar Corp. as group vice president - Global Wood Coatings and will be responsible for the leadership of the Corporation's wood coatings businesses in North America, Asia and Europe.
Effective October 1, 2006, Cytec Industries Inc. is increasing prices by $0.06/lb for all grades of its CRYLCOAT® powder coating resins and its ADDITOL® additives for powder coatings sold in North and South America.
The new MAG AA UV Spray Gun from Binks allows finishing professionals to apply UV coatings to cabinets, flooring, milled products and doors in the wood industry, and to products such as aircraft parts, brake shoes and hydraulic cylinders in the metal industry.
The Noryl GTX resins from GE Plastics are the first in a new family of conductive resins that are optimized for powder coating. These materials, which are slated to join GE's growing ecomagination product portfolio, contain conductive fillers that eliminate the need to apply an electrostatic primer.
When Sampson Maintenance Services, Youngstown, Ohio, was awarded a contract for coating work in the Columbus, OH, wastewater treatment plant, the company selected Distributors of Finishing Materials to design and modify a Graco Xtreme Mix Proportioner to handle the demanding requirements for spray application of the coating.
PPG Industries broke ground on September 6 in McCarran, NV, on a 22-acre site in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (about 15 miles east of Reno) to build a 95,000-square-foot architectural coatings manufacturing facility.
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