A leading paint company discusses how they identify color trends and translate them into relevant color palettes and products that meet customers’ needs.

To permit the use of aluminum instead of other, heavier metals in industrial applications, many cylinders are anodized to create an extremely hard surface that is wear-resistant, corrosion resistant, non-conductive and lubricious. Because anodized surfaces are porous, they also improve adhesion of coatings as well as accept a variety of dyes for coloring.

BASF has completed its acquisition of Albermarle’s global surface treatment business, Chemetall.

The newly released Pro-Cryl 7000 by Sherwin-Williams is a water-based pre-fabrication blast primer that provides temporary protection for steel surfaces prepared by abrasive blast cleaning.

SMTA China recently awarded Artesyn Embedded Technologies and Enthone the “Best Paper of Technology Conference Two,” at the SMTA China South Conference.

Dave & Buster’s new location at Vernon Hills, IL, presents a sleek, modern brand inside and out.

Skanska has signed a contract with The Boeing Co. to build its Commercial Airplane Decorative Paint Facility in Charleston, SC. The contract is worth approximately $82 million.

At nearly 8,000 feet above sea level, Aspen, CO, is known for its mountain ski slopes that rise seemingly from the heart of the town’s central business district. Echoing these snowy and forested surroundings, design architect and 2014 Pritzker Prize for Architecture winner, Shigeru Ban and his New York practice, Shigeru Ban Architects + Dean Maltz Architect (SBA) designed the new $45 million Aspen Art Museum (AAM), which was completed along with Colorado-based executive architects Cottle Carr Yaw Architects (CCY).