2018

Tikkurila Launched a New Line of Sustainably Packaged Paint in the Baltic Region

Tikkurila has launched a new product line with packaging that utilizes Post Industry Recycled (PIR) plastic in its Baltic market. Using recycled plastic reduces the need for virgin materials and lowers carbon dioxide emissions in the supply chain.

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Henkel Offers a One-Stop Portfolio of Process Solutions for the Global Metal Coil Industry

With more than 80 years of expertise in the metal processing/coil industry and an extensive range of process solutions for pickling, lubrication, cleaning, pre-treatment, passivation, coating and lamination, Henkel has firmly established itself as a global one-stop partner of the metal coil industry. New product innovations are strongly focused on helping customers manage the process needs of next-generation alloys while meeting cost and regulatory challenges.

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AkzoNobel and Icelandair Let Fly With Stunning New Livery

Iceland's rich and vivid history is being celebrated with colourful new livery launched by Icelandair, which was specially created using AkzoNobel products.

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Out Now Issue n. 26 of ipcm Protective Coatings

Although protecting onshore assets against corrosion can be difficult, doing the same on offshore structures is a real challenge, which can cost up to fifteen times more than maintenance at the factory.

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Casablanca Airport Given the Ultimate Protection

Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport is located in the province of Nouaceur, about 30km south-east of Casablanca, the fourth busiest airport in Africa and the busiest airport serving Morocco. The airport handled 7,290,314 passengers in 2011, serving 40 airlines.

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Future Mobility and Human Needs Inspire BASF's 2018-19 Automotive Colour Trends

The need to stay authentic in a world where technology continues to blur the lines between reality and artificiality is the driving force behind the BASF's 2018-19 Automotive Colour Trends theme – "Keep it Real".

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Clariant Inaugurates New Additives Production Facilities in China

Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced the official opening of two new, fully-owned additives facilities at its site in Zhenjiang, China. This completes a multi-million CHF investment originally announced last year and puts Clariant's Additives business in China on track to further expand its offering of customized, high-end solutions for the plastics, coatings & ink industries.

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Croatian EcoCortec Plant Receives Best Supplier Award!

EcoCortec® - fastest growing producer of anticorrosion packaging in Europe is more than proud to receive Best Supplier Award from its distributor company, Tribotec, Sweden. Tribotec chose EcoCortec® as a result of its excellent customer service, logistics and short lead times.

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Major Upgrade Using Flexible Equipment

Eisenmann, the international plant engineering specialist, has been given overall responsibility for expanding the paint shop at BMW Group's plant in Leipzig. Within the scope of the contract, Eisenmann will convert the top coat line and perform reengineering work on pretreatment and electrocoating.

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AkzoNobel Completes Digital Colour Recreation of Famous Van Gogh Painting

Colour experts at AkzoNobel have completed the digital recreation of a Van Gogh masterpiece. The three-year project endeavoured to get as close as possible to reconstructing the original colour scheme used by the artist when he first made the painting.

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Turnkey Powder Coating Systems, From Mixing To Grinding

A complete powder coatings system capability by Baker Perkins meets rising demand from the industry for single-source, integrated lines.

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EcoInCure: Space-Saving Oven Technology for Electric Cars

Electric, fully networked, highly automated: the new car brand Byton is consistently designed for the mobility of the future.

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Cortec's Patented CorroLogic VpCI Filler Continues to Transform Pipeline Casing Protection Market

Cortec's patented CorroLogic® VpCI® Filler is changing the way the oil and gas industry protects pipeline casings from corrosion.

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PPG Brand Brings the Outside In with 2019 Color of the Year: Night Watch

Classic luxury meets the restorative power of nature in this trending deep green

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New Nozzles For More Efficient Coating With Metallic And Effect Powder

WAGNER has expanded its powder coating portfolio with the special nozzles C4 F5 and X1 F5 for metallic and effect powders. With the new nozzles, deposits on the inside of the nozzle are a thing of the past - and thus powder deposits with sputter formation on the workpieces. The nozzles are available as a version for the manual gun PEM-X1 and the automatic gun PEA-C4. Especially for the coating of complex geometries, whether as manual coating for pre- or post-processing or robot application, WAGNER also launches nozzles in X-design on the market.

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