AkzoNobel has completed the expansion of its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai in China, doubling annual production capacity and creating the company's biggest plant for packaging coatings in the world.
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced POWERCRON EPIC™ electrocoats (e-coats), a line of next-generation, cationic-epoxy products that will be used for the first time in North America by MetoKote Corp., Lima, OH, a key PPG partner.
PPG Industries has completed its previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Hi-Temp Coatings Technology Co. Inc., a privately owned supplier of high-temperature-resistant and insulative coatings, based in Boxborough, MA.
PPG Industries’ protective and marine coatings (PMC) business received The Society of Protective Coatings (SSPC) 2014 Military Coatings Project Award of Excellence for the performance of AMERCOAT®240 and PSX®700SG coatings on the USS Freedom, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat fleet.
While U.S. manufacturing has slowed throughout the Great Recession and hit another speed bump during the government shutdown, independently owned Small Wall® has enjoyed double-digit growth that has nearly doubled sales from one year to the next.
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