Benjamin Moore and Orchard Supply
Hardware form strategic alliance
Benjamin Moore & Co. and Orchard
Supply Hardware, a California-based
home improvement retailer, have formed a
strategic alliance that will yield distribution of the 129-year-old paint brand
through the chain’s stores statewide. Currently, Orchard has 87 stores with plans
to add another three this year. Benjamin
Moore will be Orchard’s exclusive supplier of architectural paint. Orchard’s Benjamin Moore product lineup will include
Regal Select, ben, Concepts, Arborcoat
Exterior Stain and Imagine by Insl-x,
along with selected primers and applicators. Benjamin Moore’s award-winning
low-VOC Aura Paint will be available in
select Orchard stores only. Orchard plans
to begin selling Benjamin Moore paint in
selected markets beginning in early April,
with all locations carrying the product offerings by end of summer.
serve HVAC/R manufacturers in the Monterrey area. Targeting to be fully operational
by the first quarter of 2013, Luvata estimates 40 to 50 employees will be needed
for operating the facility at full capacity.
Integration of hanse chemie
Inc., USA into Evonik
Goldschmidt Corporation
Tthe U.S.-based hanse chemie business of
hanse chemie AG and nanoresins AG, have
been merged into Evonik Goldschmidt Corporation. At the same time, hanse chemie
Inc., USA has been dissolved as a legal entity.
The acquisition of hanse chemie AG and
nanoresins AG by Evonik was finalized on
May 12, 2011. Both companies are head-
quartered in Germany and produce raw
materials and components for the manu-
facture of sealants, adhesives, molding and
casting compounds, and other products.
Index to Companies
Luvata plans to expand its coil
corrosion protection coatings
into Mexico
This index gives the starting page for a department or feature with a signifi-
cant reference to a manufacturer of paint, coatings, adhesives and sealants.
Subsidiaries are indexed under their own names.
AremcoProducts.............................................. 24
BASFCoatings............................................. 10, 20
BenjaminMoore ............................................8, 32
Dunn-Edwards................................................ 10
DuPont ..................................................... 10
EcologyCoatings.............................................. 10
Hempel ..................................................... 10
Henkel...................................................... 35
InternationalPaint............................................. 46
KansaiPaint.................................................. 20
Minwax..................................................... 32
NOFMetalCoatings........................................... 10
Plascon ..................................................... 46
PPG............................................... 10, 20, 22, 50
RPM ....................................................... 46
Rust-Oleum.................................................. 10
Shawcor..................................................... 10
Sherwin-Williams........................................... 20, 22
Thompson’s WaterSeal ......................................... 32
Valspar...................................................... 24
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