ranging from e-coat to clearcoat,
the company offers a wide range
of services. In the area of buses
and trucks, BASF Coatings supplies Daimler plants in all regions.
The presentation of the Daimler Supplier Awards took place as part of the
Daimler Key Supplier Meeting at Mer-cedes-Benz in Stuttgart. Around 450 representatives of the most important
Daimler suppliers and 200 representatives
of Daimler management participated in
the event.
Rolith receives $5 million
funding to develop industrial-
scale nanostructured coatings
Rolith, Inc., a developer of advanced
nanostructured coatings and devices, has
received $5 million in Series A funding
from DFJ VTB Capital Aurora and AGC
America Inc.
Rolith’s nanostructured coatings are
used in the renewable energy, green building and consumer electronics markets,
and the company will utilize the $5 million investment to step up business development in an effort to address the current
market need for industrial-scale nanostructured coatings. The investments will
also be used to expand the engineering
team and further research and development the company said.
Rolith coatings function by a proprietary nanolithography system and was
formed by Dr. Boris Kobrin, Prof. Mark
Brongersma and Julian Zegelman in
2008.
“We are excited to lead the Series A in-
vestment in Rolith, Inc. We believe that
the company’s proprietary large-scale
nanocoating method has great potential to
become the new standard for a vast vari-
ety of industrial and consumer applica-
tions,” said Aidar Kaliev, global head of
venture capital at VTB Capital. “The team
has an impressive track-record with sev-
eral nanotech start-ups, combines Russian
and US scientific backgrounds and has the
necessary skills and experience to lead the
company to success.”
“We are very fortunate to have the
support of world’s leading glass producer,
AGC (Asahi Glass Company) Group, and
DFJ VTB Capital Aurora, a highly rep-
utable nanotechnology investor associated
with one of the major Russia’s banking
groups, VTB Group,” said Boris Kobrin,
founder and CEO of Rolith. “This investment will allow us to scale up our nanos-tructuring technology to substrate areas
larger than what is offered by any competitors and demonstrate feasibility of the
first few of our nanostructured coatings.”
PPG teams with BrandMuscle
PPG has partnered with BrandMuscle, a
provider of web-based local marketing automation software, to introduce PPG
Marketing on Demand, a suite of online
tools and services to help distributors and
collision repair facilities produce customized marketing and advertising materials. PPG Marketing on Demand is
available to all PPG distributors and collision repair centers in North America.
The new system provides a resource
distributors and body shops can access to
develop a variety of promotional pieces to
support their local businesses. At the PPG
Marketing on Demand website, registered
users can create professional-quality, online business pages and display ads, websites, email campaigns, print ads,
brochures, and door and mirror hangers.
PPG is also providing distributors and
collision centers with direct access to marketing professionals and media specialists
who can assist with tasks as complicated
as creating a marketing plan or as simple
as negotiating the best rate for a local display ad.
Color Wheel Paint expands into
North Carolina
Color Wheel Paint, a manufacturer of
paint and industrial coatings and part of
the global Comex Group, has expaned
into North Carolina which marks significant growth and geographic expansion
for the Florida-based brand. Color
Wheel Paint offers paints such as Flex
Lox, Optima and Tropicoat; specialty
lines such as UltraCrete and Texturi; and
a complete line of industrial coatings. All
Color Wheel products are designed and
tested for durability in the hot, humid
climate of the Southeast region of the
United States where paint failure due to
mildew and fading are major concerns.
The expansion was made official on
April 2, 2012 with the opening of a com-pany-owned Color Wheel Paint store in
Raleigh, N.C. The company said it has
seen a growing demand for its paint
products in this market as well as encouraging overall economic growth.
Dur-A-Flex resinous floor
coating manufacturer earns
national certification
One of Dur-A-Flex’s floor systems has
been certified by the National Floor Safety
Institute (NFSI) for slip resistance, making the company the first resinous floor
coating manufacturer to receive such a determination by the nationally-recognized
agency said the company.
The NFSI provided Dur-A-Flex with
the means to have their Dur-A-Quartz
with Armor Top epoxy flooring system independently evaluated for slip resistance.
Once the system passed the agency’s evaluations, it was placed on the NFSI’s Certified Products list, which is accessible by
facility owners looking to make more informed buying decisions.
According to the NFSI, walking surfaces are most likely to be identified as the
primary cause of a slip, trip-and-fall accident and comprise 55 percent of all falls.
Comprised of more than ten years of
researching various test methods by which
walkway materials, coatings, chemical
cleaning agents and treatments can be
evaluated for their degree of slip resistance, the NFSI has a comprehensive evaluation process. In order for Dur-A-Flex’s
Dur-A-Quartz with Armor Top to achieve
the NFSI’s certification status, the flooring
system had to pass a laboratory phase and
a field test. The epoxy system passed both
evaluations and exceeded the minimum
accepted scores earning a “high traction”
determination by the NFSI.
ShawCor receives contract to
provide pipeline coatings for
the Ichthys LNG Project
ShawCor Ltd.’s pipecoating division,
Bredero Shaw, has received a contract
with a value in excess of US$400 million
to provide pipeline coatings and related
products and services for the gas export
pipeline on the Ichthys LNG Project.
