With 1,024 exhibitors from 42 countries and 28,500 trade visitors representing nearly 110 nationalities, the European Coatings Show closed with new record highs.

Involved as they are in widely diverse fields, these new companies have a common focus: continuous development of sustainable and environmentally acceptable products and processes.

Accessa Coatings Solutions has opened a new facility in Millersburg, OH, to better serve commercial coatings customers in northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

According to a new study released by Cleveland-based market research firm The Freedonia Group Inc., U.S. demand for solvents is expected to increase at an annual pace of 1.5%  through 2018 to 11 billion pounds.

The Celanese Foundation has made its first donations, totaling $573,000, to Dallas-area charitable and community organizations.

Oxea will increase off-list prices on the certain products effective February 1, 2014, or as contracts allow.

 The annual ChinaCoat show was held November 20-22, 2013, in Shanghai. This article contains just a sampling of what PCI editors discovered at the show.