SCORPION PROTECTIVE
COATINGS SELECTS ACCESSA
Scorpion Protective Coatings, Inc. has
entered into an agreement with
Accessa Coatings Solutions on its line
of Scorpion protective coatings. Accessa
will serve as Scorpion’s sales and distribution partner. Scorpion joins the
current general industrial segment of
Accessa’s product segment offerings.
The Scorpion line offers high tensile
strength, excellent abrasion resistance,
superior elongation, optional high non-skid rating, and excellent UV and
weathering characteristics
“Scorpion is very excited to have
Accessa assisting us in the sales and
distribution of our versatile line of
coatings,” said Clayton Tomasino,
CFO of Scorpion Protective Coatings,
Inc. “Accessa’s wide breadth of knowledge and impeccable reputation in
the coatings industry make them
perfect representatives for Scorpion’s
unique array of products.”
RPM’S EUCLID CHEMICAL COMPANY
ACQUIRES INCRETE SYSTEMS
RPM International Inc. announced
that its wholly owned subsidiary,
The Euclid Chemical Company of
Cleveland, OH, has acquired Increte
Systems of Odessa, FL. With sales of
approximately $15 million, Increte
is a leading manufacturer of decorative concrete systems that recreate
the look of natural stone, wood, tile,
brick and pavers using concrete.
“We are very excited to have
acquired Increte’s comprehensive
decorative product line, along with
its all-inclusive manufacturing
processes and training capabilities,”
said RPM’s president and CEO,
Frank C. Sullivan. “Increte has been
exceedingly successful in establishing a leadership position in the decorative concrete industry. This
acquisition provides the springboard
to propel Euclid Chemical forward in
this growing market segment.”
The existing Increte management
team will remain in place and the
company will operate as a stand
alone business unit of Euclid
Chemical reporting to Moorman
Scott, Euclid Chemical’s executive
vice president.
ADCO GLOBAL HAS ACQUIRED
THE DOLPHIN COMPANY
ADCO Global, through its U.S. operating subsidiary, ADCO Products,
has acquired The Dolphin Company,
LLC. Based in Toledo, OH, Dolphin
supplies custom-formulated adhesives, sealants and coatings to
OEMs serving the bus, truck, RV,
rail and farm equipment markets.
“The acquisition of Dolphin
strengthens our U.S. position in
truck, trailer, bus and RV markets.
Dolphin has excellent long-term
relationships with leading customers in the industry,” said John
Knox, ADCO global president and
CEO. “Dolphin’s water-based adhesives, HydroArmor protective coatings, and ElastiSeal and WinSeal
sealants complement ADCO’s structural acrylic and urethane adhesives, acrylic tapes and broad line of
sealants. The combined company is
well positioned to supply a full line
of adhesive, sealant and coating
requirements to our customers.”
ADCO Global is a supplier of specialty adhesives, sealants, tapes,
and coatings serving construction,
transportation and industrial markets throughout the world via its
operating subsidiaries ADCO
Products, Inc., in North America and
Kömmerling Chemische Fabrik
GmbH in Europe, Africa and Asia.
DÜRR RECEIVES LARGE
PAINT SYSTEMS ORDER IN U.S.
Stuttgart, Germany-based The Dürr
Group has received a major order
from the BMW Group for its U.S.
plant in Spartanburg, SC, worth more
than €100 million. The production
capacity will be increased from
160,000 to 240,000 units by 2012. The
required expansion of the paint shop
will be realized largely by Dürr.
Dürr has received several small
and medium-sized orders for paint
systems in the U.S. in 2007. “This
large order from BMW Group now
assures us very good capacity utilization in the U.S. for the long
term,” said Ralf Dieter, CEO of Dürr
AG. “It also underscores the confidence placed in Dürr as a capable
provider of comprehensive systems
and technology expertise.”
The order will be executed under
the leadership of U.S. subsidiary
Dürr Systems, Inc.
The paint shop, built by Dürr in
1996, is to be expanded so the X3’s
successor model and the X6 can be
produced there in the future in addition to the BMW X5. The paint shop
will be expanded by 28,000 square
meters or 80%. Dürr is going to build
three new areas for this paint shop
including a base-coating facility with
pretreatment, dip-coating and drying, where the RoDip rotation dipping process will be used; a primer
line and a top coat line with connected finishing and waxing lines for
post-treatment and transport sealing; and a sealing line for weld
seams and underbody protection.
While production is supposed to
begin in the first two areas in mid-
2009, the sealing line’s startup is
planned for mid-2010. Capacity is to
increase from 27 units per hour now
to 46 as a result of expanding the
paint shop.
The project in Spartanburg is the
BMW Group’s third-largest plant
remodeling job for Dürr since 2003.
Most recently Dürr expanded and
modernized the paint shop at the
BMW site in Oxford, England, where
the MINI model is produced. In
2003, Dürr remodeled the paint shop
