Keyword: industrial coatings
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29.05.2017
- Axalta continues its acquisition trail, this time with an agreement to buy the UK’s Spencer Coatings Group, a leading manufacturer of high-performance industrial coatings for heavy...
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03.02.2017
- US liquid and powder coatings company Axalta Coating Systems has acquired two firms since the beginning of 2017. The most recent deal, announced on Feb. 1, is with Century...
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24.05.2016
- Rising global demand has spurred BASF to invest an undisclosed sum in extra capacity for its Basonat polyisocyanate hardeners in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The additional output will...
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18.02.2016
- BASF has accepted AkzoNobel’s offer of €475 million for the German chemical giant’s industrial coatings business. The two companies said they plan to finalize and sign the required...
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12.02.2016
- Akzo Nobel and BASF are in talks about a sale of the German conglomerate’s industrial coatings business to the Dutch paints and coatings specialist. The two chemical players have...
Markets & Companies
24.03.2015
- Lacquer derived from tree sap originated in China about 7,000 years ago. This lacquer gave objects a hard protective coating that provided water resistance. Indeed, most of the...
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07.03.2014
- AkzoNobel has doubled annual production capacity at its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai, China at a cost of around €14 million. The company said the expansion...
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18.09.2012
- As the second largest consumer of synthetic latex polymers in the world after North America, the combined states of the EU-27 consumed nearly 2.5 million dry tons of synthetic...
