Coatings World - July 2011

opment and innovation by AkzoNobel at the Felling site. AkzoNobel’s powder coatings business recently completed a new €2 million laboratory for its polymer research and a €1.4 million corporate research laboratory.

located in Shanghai will act as business headquarters for PPG in China.

“China continues to experience rapid
growth, and PPG’s new country head-
quarters in Shanghai will help facilitate
our business growth through the consol-
idation of China business and functional
leaders together in the new location,”
said Viktor Sekmakas, PPG senior vice
president, industrial coatings, and presi-

Nova Paint Club tackles economic challenges at Lisbon meeting

Watson Standard acquires EB curing unit Watson Standard recently acquired an electron beam curing unit. The investment will serve to strengthen the research and development facility and capabilities of their Rigid and Flexible packaging divisions. The EB unit allows Watson Standard to continue its progression in responding in the development of energy curable specialty coatings and their rising demand. The beam ensures Watson’s mission of formulating and supporting the most innovative specialty coatings and adhesives for the global rigid and flexible packaging market, as green technologies continue to replace conventional solvent-based coatings.

ShawCor and Welspun sign $60
million contract

ShawCor Ltd. said its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a contract with a value in excess of $60 million from Welspun Corp Limited, to provide pipeline coatings and related products and services for the Zawtika Development Project operated by PTTEP International Limited. The contract will be executed at Bredero Shaw’s facility in Kabil, Indonesia. This facility is a tech-nology-based, full service coating plant that was built specifically to process large, complex projects in the Asia Pacific region. Pipe shipments will utilize the two new berths at the Kabil Offshore Deepwater Port, which became fully operational during the second quarter of 2010. The contract involves coating approximately 335 km of 10” to 28” pipe that will be protected with three-layer anticorrosion coating and concrete weight coating.

CIN, Iberia’s largest paint group, hosted the latest Nova Paint Club meeting, held April 26 – May 1 in Lisbon, Portugal. The meeting brought together the marketing directors from the member companies and their board representatives to discuss the critical issues facing the global paint industry.

The Nova Paint Club draws its members from 11 companies operating in more than 90 countries. The meeting included a keynote presentation from Tobias Lewe and his colleagues from A T Keaney. Lewe provided an insightful overview of the performance of the global paint market during the economic crisis. In addition, the marketing directors received information from key vendors on innovations including new color mixing systems and specialized packaging.

“This conference has given us the chance to discuss the impact of the global
economic crisis on our sector,” said Joao Serrenho, president of CIN and current
president of Nova. “Working in collaboration, we have looked at new initiatives
which will help us deal with both the threats and opportunities that this unprece-
dented situation offers the industry.”
The next meeting of the Nova Paint Club will take place in October 2011 in
London and will be held together with a meeting of Nova’s technical directors.

The Nova Paint Club is an international organization founded in 1983 to provide a framework for leading global independent paint companies to benefit from exchanges of technical information, technology and expertise in all areas of their operations.

PPG opens business headquarters in China PPG has created PPG Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. The new company,

Nova President João Serrenho (front row center) together with board and marketing directors visit CIN's flagship store and administration complex in Lisbon, Portugal.