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PPG to build its first coatings plant in Russia
PPG Industries is planning to build its
first manufacturing plant in Russia.
PPG has signed an investment agreement with the administration of the
Kaluga Region, Russia, to build an
automotive coatings and industrial
coatings plant approximately 70 kilometers southwest of Moscow.
The plant will manufacture coatings for automotive and other industrial customers. The facility, which
will be fully owned by PPG, will
employ approximately 70 people and
be located just north of the city of
Kaluga in the Vorsino Industrial
Park, according to Bill Wulfsohn,
PPG senior vice president, coatings.
“The Russian economy is booming
and automotive production is growing quickly. To best serve the market,
we must have local manufacturing
capabilities,” Wulfsohn said.
Currently, seven new automotive
assembly plants are in the planning
or construction phase in Russia and
are expected to come online within
the next three years.
“Our new plant will enable PPG to
quickly respond with high quality standards to meet global and Russian customers’ growing needs and requirements,” Wulfsohn said.
The new PPG facility will be located centrally in Russia, close to the
new and existing automotive plants.
The Kaluga authorities “are particularly helpful for new investors,”
Wulfsohn said, and have attracted foreign investment from leading international companies such as VW, PSA,
Volvo Truck, Samsung, John Deere,
L’Oréal and Nestlé.
DUPONT OPENS PERFORMANCE
COATINGS PLANT IN SHANGHAI
DuPont Performance Coatings recently held an opening ceremony in the
Jiading District of Shanghai to mark
the start-up of production of a 20,000-
ton-per-year paint plant in the district.
Products from the $80 million plant
mainly serve the Chinese automotive-refinishing market, and its products
include industrial paint, refinishing
paint and automotive OEM paint.
ROCKWOOD AND KEMIRA
AGREE TO FORM TIO2 JV
Rockwood Holdings, Inc. and Kemira
Oyj have agreed to form a joint ven-
ture that will be one of the world’s
leading producers of specialty TiO2
pigments. The joint venture will combine Rockwood’s TiO2 pigments and
functional additives business, including its production facilities in
Duisburg, Germany, and Kemira’s
TiO2 business, including Kemira’s
TiO2 plant in Pori, Finland. CW
Index to Companies
This index gives the starting page for a department or feature with
a significant reference to a manufacturer of paint, coatings, adhe-
sives and sealants. Subsidiaries are indexed under their own names.
3M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
AB Wilh. Becker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
AkzoNobel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 36
BASF Coatings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 26, 32, 60
BeckerAcroma Spa ........................................ 10
Becker Powder Coatings .................................... 32
Berger Paints India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chemline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Cortec Corp. .............................................. 26
Dampney Company ........................................ 26
DuPont .............................................8, 26, 36
Enviroline Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Hempel .................................................. 10
Henkel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 26
Hi-Tech Coatings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Illinois Tool Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Industri Kapital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Jotun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Lord Corp.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Morwear Paint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Pettit Marine ............................................. 26
PPG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 10, 32, 36
Rohmand Haas ..................................... 10, 32, 54
RPM .................................................... 10
SEI Chemical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Sherwin-Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SigmaKalon .............................................. 36
Tikkurila. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 36
West Development Group ................................... 26
