16.04.2014
- BASF has spent €2.5 million on expanding capacity for waterborne automotive coatings at its Demarchi site in Brazil's Sao Paolo state. The German group, which did not provide...
19.03.2014
- U.S. chemical producer Eastman has entered a "definitive agreement" to acquire Commonwealth Laminating and Coating, an independent U.S. manufacturer and distributor of window films...
13.02.2014
- Formulating The Future - Decreasing availability of classic raw materials such as oil affects the coatings industry like any other. The European Coatings Congress in Nuremberg...
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is expanding its global production network for inorganic pigments and building a new plant in China for the Inorganic Pigments...
22.01.2014
- BASF is spending some €7 million to expand and upgrade coating resins production at its Münster, Germany, site by 2016. Along with lengthening capacity by an undisclosed margin...
16.01.2014
- Econic Technologies, a developer of new catalyst technology for manufacturing polymers from waste carbon dioxide, is pleased to announce that it has completed a £5.1m (approx. €6...
07.01.2014
- BASF has won the 2013 Product Line Strategy Leadership Award of Frost & Sullivan for its coatings raw material portfolio. The international consultancy said the Ludwigshafen...
13.12.2013
- Declaring the activities to be non-strategic, French chemical producer Arkema plans to sell its two coatings subsidiaries in South Africa to Ferro Industrial Producers, a...
