Fresh Paint
Paint and AkzoNobel have established
a new strategic alliance. Miller Paint
has acquired the exclusive rights to
distribute the full range of Glidden
Professional, Dulux and Devoe
Coatings products, initially through
10 additional Miller Paint locations in
the extended Portland and Salem
market. Miller Paint is an employee-
owned company that has been manu-
facturing and selling paint in the
Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. for
more than 120 years. It has 33 stores
throughout Oregon and Washington.
put a pipe coatings plant in Bessemer,
Alabama’s Interstate Industrial Park.
Liberty Group of Morrisville, PA said
it will invest $5 million in the plant,
which will be used to store, process
and coat pipe. The plant is expected to
provide 80 jobs. Liberty applies anti-corrosion and protective coatings
inside and outside of pipe used by the
natural gas, oil, petrochemical, water
and wastewater industries. Liberty
Coating may also establish a regional
sales and distribution operation at
the site.
CHASE CORPORATION ACQUIRES
SERVIWRAP PRODUCT LINE
Chase Corporation, a global manufac-
turer of protective tapes and coatings,
has acquired the full range of
ServiWrap pipeline protection prod-
ucts from Grace Construction
Products, a unit of W.R. Grace & Co.
ServiWrap high performance tapes,
which have been protecting offshore
and onshore pipelines from corrosion
around the world for more than 30
years, will be manufactured and dis-
tributed by Chase Corporation.
ServiWrap/ServiShield anti-corrosion
systems have provided protection for
new and refurbished oil, gas and
water pipelines on thousands of miles
of pipe used in projects around the
world. The acquisition of ServiWrap
complements the portfolio of Chase
pipeline protection tapes, coatings and
accessories and will extend Chase
Corporation’s global customer base.
ServiWrap also builds upon Chase’s
most recent acquisition, C.I.M.
Industries, manufacturers of high per-
formance immersion coatings for the
water and wastewater industry.
NAME CHANGE FOR
ELASTOGRAN COMPANIES
Following the introduction of the
BASF corporate brand for Elastogran
European polyurethane sites, the next
step BASF is taking is to change the
names of Elastogran companies.
Elastogran GmbH with its head
offices in Lemförde will be called
BASF Polyurethanes GmbH from now
on. This is in keeping with a system
already introduced on a global scale.
The name change will not affect the
legal form of the companies concerned.
Nor will the renaming affect existing
agreements such as employment con-
tracts or customer contracts. The
Elastogran name lives on in the BASF
brand “PU Solutions Elastogran,”
which was recently launched through-
out Europe.
SHAWCOR FORMS
JOINT VENTURE IN RUSSIA
The pipe coating division of Toronto,
PIPE COATINGS PLANT SLATED
FOR BESSEMER, ALABAMA
Liberty Coating Company of
Morrisville, PA an applicator of indus-
trial coatings for the oil, gas and
water industries said it’s planning to
