Coatings World - December 2010

Fresh Paint
Tokyo and Penang, the Suzhou site pro-
vides JDSU with another base to expand
its relationships with Asia-based cus-
tomers and suppliers.

In addition to the Suzhou site, JDSU
has another optical coatings facility in
Santa Rosa, California with more than
300 employees that handle manufactur-
ing, research and development, sales and
marketing.
TEKNOS OPENS NEW CENTRAL
WAREHOUSE IN GERMANY
Teknos has strengthed its position in the
German market by opening a new cen-
tral warehouse in Fuld, Germany. After
gradually readjustment of its logistics,
the coatings producer will supply cus-
tomers in Germany, Austria and the
neighbouring countries in Central and
Southeast Europe with industrial wood
coatings from the new central distribu-
tion center. In addition to the warehouse,
the Teknos has opened a mixing center
for Gori Industry and Aquatop paints
and coatings. The new warehouse is
another step to expand the site after
Teknos’ integration of the German Gori
Industry marketing organization in
Fulda a year ago.

DUPONT LAUNCHES
LEAN LEARNING ACADEMY

DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC)
has expanded the DuPont Performance
Services (DPS) program, now offering
the DPS Learning Academy - Lean
Series. The DPS Learning Academy -
Lean Series is designed for repair cen-
ters interested in implementing a lean
process.
The DPS Learning Academy is a
series of three, three-day events which
are conducted on-site at a collision
repair center that is actively using a pull
production model. Currently, these
events are being conducted at The Body
Shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or
Marshall Auto Body in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. DPC has partnered with
version coating product, designed for use by coating
applicators subcontracted by automotive companies,
required several years of dedicated research, including
working with sci-
entific institutions
to better under-
stand sol-gel tech-
nology. Under a
project launched in
2004, pilot testing
took place in 2007
and full commer-
cial application of
the technology
occurred in March

The panel of judges said this innovative product devel-
opment on the part of NOF Metal Coatings Europe is
clearly moving towards sustainable development and
doing less damage.

Responsible Care is a global initiative of the chemical
industry to drive continuous improvement in its health,
safety and environmental performance and to make a
strong contribution to sustainable development. It was
first launched in 1985 in Canada and is now run by the
national/regional chemical associations in 53 countries
around the world.
With more than 30 years of experience, NOF Metal
Coatings Europe develops, produces and sells, by
licence agreements, the zinc-flake technologies
Geomet and Dacromet. The coatings offer low-thick-
ness and high-performing anticorrosion protection
and are leaders in the automotive and truck indus-
tries, as well as in other industrial sectors such as
renewable energies. NOF Metal Coatings Europe is
the European subsidiary of NOF Metal Coatings
Group, the anticorrosion division of the Japanese
chemical group NOF Corporation, who invented the
zinc-flake technology. An international licensee's net-
work with more than 350 application lines supplies
NOF’s coatings worldwide. More information can be
found at www.nofmetalcoatings.com.

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