Fresh Paint
looking for a 25-30% share, he said.
FSCT membership and board greenlight merger with NPCA
The National Paint and Coatings Association (NPCA) and the Federation of
Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) are moving forward with a merger of
the two organizations following a majority vote by FSCT members endorsing
the merger plan. The FSCT board of directors certified the vote at a recent
meeting, verifying that 84% of those members who participated in the process
voted to approve the bylaws changes necessary for the merger.
“This endorsement underscores the support of the membership for integrating the management and operational resources of both organizations. The
merger will allow NPCA and FSCT to enhance the overall quality and breadth
of programs and services provided to the industry and to efficiently and effectively apply resources to industry priorities,” said NPCA president Andy Doyle
and FSCT executive director Joe Pontoski in a joint statement.
motive industry are increasingly being
driven by Asian companies, and BASF
supports this trend,” said Prasad
Chandran, chairman BASF Group in
India and head South Asia.
invest $38.6 million to acquire Polish
firm Bolix SA. The acquisition will be
made through Berger’s wholly-owned
subsidiary Cyprus.
TIKKURILA EXPANDS IN ROMANIA
Tikkurila, which is responsible for
Kemira’s paints and coatings business,
has strengthened its position in the
Southeasteuropean paint market. The
company has agreed to establish a
trading company by the name of
Tikkurila JUB Romania with the paint
company JUB of Slovenia based on
equal partnership.
The new company will be responsible
for the marketing, sales and distributing
of Tikkurila’s and JUB’s decorative
paints in Romania. With its office and
warehouse in Bucharest, Tikkurila JUB
Romania is due to start its operations
July 1, 2008.
The Romanian paint market is expected to grow at double digit figures during
the next few years. Especially demand in
the medium and premium price segments will increase. The estimated size
of the Romanian paints market is $170-
180 million on an annual basis.
BERGER PAINTS, BECKER
ACROMA SPA TEAM UP
The Kolkata-based paint manufacturer
Berger Paints Ltd. has tied up with
Italian Becker Acroma Spa to launch
water-based and polyurethane wood-fin-ish products for the Indian market.
These two products will be followed by
glass paints, clear coats, floor coatings,
exterior coatings for heritage buildings
and other products from the collaboration, known as Berger-Becker Acroma, in
India, in the second phase of expansion
beginning in September.
The technical partnership is an extension of their coil manufacturing setup
Berger BIC at Goa. The products will be
imported from Italy until substantial
volumes are met before manufacturing
in India.
“We will use the capabilities of the Goa
plant for some time, but will look to set
up a greenfield project somewhere in
India, going forward,” said Stefano
Antoniazzi, managing director, Becker
Acroma.
The wood finish market in India is
estimated at Rs300 crore, according to
Abhijit Roy, vice president, sales and
marketing, Berger. The company will be
3M TO EXPAND MANUFACTURING
IN SINGAPORE
3M has announced its intent to build a
new facility in Singapore to produce
coatings for film-based products used in
commercial, electronic and automotive
applications.
“This investment brings us closer to
our customers and creates a regional
source of supply, which significantly simplifies our supply chain and helps us
respond more quickly to our customers’
needs in the fast-growing Asia market,”
said Kevin Kuck, vice president, 3M film
manufacturing.
Construction on the new facility, which
will be located in the Tuas Industrial
Park, will begin in the second quarter of
this year and is expected to be completed
in 2009. 3M operations already in
Singapore include a customer innovation
center and the 3M Woodlands facility,
which manufactures flex circuits and
electronic adhesives.
BERGER PAINTS
EXPANDS IN POLAND
Berger Paints India Ltd. said in
Mumbai on April 29, 2008 that it will
NEW VTZ COATING CAPACITY
AT TMK’S VOLZHSKY SUBSIDIARY
The construction of a new anticorrosion
external coating line for large diameter
pipes began at TMK’s Volzhsky subsidiary. The maximum capacity of the
line is 650,000 tons of pipes annually.
These new facilities will supplement the
two existing anticorrosion external coating lines for large diameter pipes at
Volzhsky.
The constructing line allows applying
one- and two-layer FBE coatings; two-and three-layer PE coating and two- and
three-layer polypropylene coating. The
external coating extends pipelines life
time of a minimum of 30 years.
This coating equipment technologically is designed to process pipes with
up to 42 mm in wall thickness. Thus, the
new coating line will match the capacity of a new longitudinal welded large
diameter pipe facility also currently
being built in Volzhsky. The works to
