Coatings World - March 2013

Coatings and
Adhesives Corp.
Raises Prices
on Water-based
Coatings, Energy Curable
Coatings and Adhesive
Product

Coatings and Adhesives Corporation recently announced a price increase on all lines of its high performance water-based, energy curable coatings and adhesives. Coatings and Adhesives Corporation said that although the company is always working to reduce costs, the increases in the costs of styrene, benzene, other special chemical compounds and transportation have increased the cost more than the company can absorb through increased efficiencies and other cost containment methods.

While materials based on delivered pricing will vary, on average material increases FOB Leland, North Carolina will be: water-based coatings will increase by 5%-8%; energy curable materials will increase by 2%-5%; and cold adhesives will increase by 3%-6%.

Trimite Global Coatings
Acquires Trimite Brand
Names and IPR

Trimite Global Coatings has purchased all intellectual property (IPR), including trademarks and brand names, relating to the former Trimite Ltd. business that went into administration in March 2009. Stretford Group, the owner of Trimite Global Coatings, secured the rights.

“I am delighted with the speedy ac-
quisition of the assets - we are now able
to protect the heritage and goodwill as-
sociated with the Trimite name in the
coatings industry,” said Jonathan Irwin,
group managing director of Trimite
Global Coatings. “We have worked with
Stretford Group to become financially
stable and create a firm foundation for
growth by focusing on our key markets
and technologies.”
Trimite Global Coatings has an-
nounced that it has invested in R&D
with the aim of setting new standards in
global coatings production and technol-
ogies and re-emerging as a key player in
the global coatings industry. The R&D
investment will further enhance the com-
pany’s comprehensive range of coatings
technologies supplied to clients in the
U.K. and internationally.

DuPont Performance
Coatings Launches New
IntelliMist

For refinish shops in high heat, low humidity desert-like conditions, the IntelliMist spray booth climate control system from DuPont improves shop productivity by making it easier to use all waterborne and solvent paint products, and greatly improving painters’ comfort. IntelliMist is available to U.S. DuPont Performance coatings shops.

IntelliMist is a process improvement
tool. Because it automatically controls a
spray booth during the spray cycle at the
optimum level for humidity, it provides
an extremely productive spray booth cli-
mate, according to the company. It can
also be used after the bake cycle to rap-
idly cool down the booth and the panels.
Vehicles are much more “workable” due
to lower part and body temperatures.

Kelly-Moore Paints Opens Two New Bay Area Stores Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. has opened two new stores in the Bay Area – San Francisco and Lafayette. The Lafayette store is located at 3707 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549. The newest San Francisco store is located at 701 Bayshore Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94124. The company recently opened a new store in San Jose and now has 63 stores in the Bay Area. CW