Fresh Paint
Valspar opens auto color center in China
tion line using Ecology’s patented technology for UV cured coatings on five gallon metal containers made from cold
rolled carbon steel. Ecology Coatings’
EcoQuik product family, formally
launched in April 2008, is comprised of
three coating lines including clear coatings, pigmented coatings and barrier
coatings. Ecology’s EcoQuik coatings
provide superior wear, scratch resistance
and hardness with a single application,
which reduces coating thickness and
offers versatility in applications, according to the company.
Valspar’s new color center plans to develop 6,000 colors the first year with plans to
grow to a capacity of 9,000 colors per year.
Valspar has expanded its global automotive color operations by opening a color
technology center in Shunde, China.
Establishing a color technology center in
this location enables Valspar to offer
more service options to its automotive
customers in Asia Pacific and Australia.
The center is designed to increase the
quantity of available colors for automotive customers while at the same time
ensuring that common technology, methods and procedures are being practiced.
The center plans to develop 6,000 colors
the first year with plans to grow to a
capacity of 9,000 colors per year. The center includes employees skilled as colorists, sprayers and color information
experts. The new color technology center
will also support global color development projects for Valspar’s automotive
refinish brands including De Beer and
Valspar Refinish.
AKZONOBEL ACQUIRES EAST
EUROPEAN ADHESIVES BUSINESS
AkzoNobel Industrial Finishes’ Casco
Adhesives business in Eastern Europe
has acquired the wood adhesives activities of Kronochem, the chemical arm of
Kronospan, a producer of wood panels,
MDF, chipboard, laminate flooring and
board resins. The transaction includes a
long-term tolling agreement under
which Kronochem will utilize its manufacturing capacity and production
expertise to produce wood adhesives for
Casco Adhesives. The acquired wood
adhesives business is located in the
Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and
Slovakia. Their products support applications for the furniture industry, including veneering, curved plywood, edge glue
panel, doors, shuttering and three-layer
boards. AkzoNobel’s own European production for wood adhesives is centralized
at two plants in Sweden.
ECOLOGY COATINGS FORMS SHEET
COATING DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
Ecology Coatings, Inc. has signed an
agreement with a customer for a produc-
DUPONT REALIGNS INDUSTRIAL
COATINGS BUSINESS IN AMERICAS
DuPont’s Industrial CoatingSolutions
business in the Americas has been
realigned to serve its customers better
with a lean and responsive organization
representing its total offering of liquid,
