Coatings World - August 2008

Fresh Paint

and vehicles for the national emergency-rescue, recreational and specialty vehicle markets, recently honored PPG Industries’ automotive refinish business with its 2008 SPARC Award for outstanding supplier performance. The announcement was made at Spartan’s Sixth Annual Supplier Conference.

and the project will be executed at its coating facility in Orkanger, where the Thermotite polypropylene insulation coating system for offshore flow assurance was developed. This project is the

largest contract by value that Bredero Shaw Norway’s Orkanger plant has ever undertaken. The coating work will run for a four-month period from September 2008 to January 2009. The

KEMIRA TO CONCENTRATE ON WATER AND FIBER BUSINESSES Kemira’s board of directors has made a strategic decision to concentrate on water and fiber related businesses in the future. Kemira will initiate a spin-off process to turn Tikkurila, its coatings business area, into a public company owned by Kemira’s current shareholders and potential new shareholders on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. This will take place during the first half of 2009. Kemira will remain as a shareholder in the coatings company, widely known as Tikkurila.

SHAWCOR SIGNS NEW
PIPE COATING CONTRACTS

ShawCor’s subsidiary, Shaw Pipe Protection, has received a $50 million contract to provide coatings for the Enbridge Alberta Clipper project—a crude oil pipeline that will extend from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior, WI and is expected to be in service by mid-2010. Coating will begin in the third quarter of 2008 at the company’s Regina pipe coating facility. The project will consist of approximately 1,600 km of 36” pipe and will be coated with fusion bonded epoxy anti-corrosion coating and a dual layer fusion bonded epoxy coating for sections of the pipeline requiring additional protection during construction.

In other news Bredero Shaw— Shawcor’s largest division—has received a contract with a value in excess of $30 million from Subsea 7 to provide Thermotite coatings for StatoilHydro’s Vega offshore project in the North Sea. The contract has been awarded to Bredero Shaw Norway AS

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