Coatings World - JUNE 2013

with 10 billion in sales.

International
Paint Launches
New Website for North
American Customers

International Paint has launched a new website at www.international-pc.com/ northamerica specially designed to serve the needs of customers in North America including—U.S., Canada, Central America and the Caribbean.

While the existing global Protective Coatings website from International Paint is still fully operational and continues to provide corporate, product and market information and resources, the International Paint North America site will provide customers with a quicker, more efficient means of locating not only their favorite global International Paint and Devoe High Performance Coatings products, but for the first time, those specific to the North America region, as well as a host of information and time-saving communications tools right at their fingertips, according to the company.

PPG Expands Paint It Application to Nexa Autocolor Brand PPG Automotive Refinish has introduced Paint It for the Nexa Autocolor brand. Paint It is the fast, reliable tool that collision centers can use to identify the right color for vehicle repair, according to the company. The Paint It application has been enhanced to provide more model years, additional language capability and greater device functionality.

Paint It for the Nexa Autocolor brand is a web-based application that makes vehicle color identification and selection simpler and more accurate. It is designed to be intuitive for refinish industry professionals who use a variety of color identification tools. No special software is required to run the application.

With the introduction of this version, Paint It has incorporated several new features. Paint It can now be accessed remotely on a variety of Web-enabled tablet devices using the most popular operating platforms, making it suitable for field work and on-the-spot reference from any location. In addition, Paint It is multilingual with French and Spanish language options available.

Paint It for the Nexa Autocolor brand, and now Paint It for PPG, covers a wide range of model years (2008-2013 domestic and import). The two versions will be continuously updated for additional domestic and import model years and as new OEM colors are introduced.

“The introduction of Paint It for the Nexa Autocolor brand and our continuous refinement of the application represents our commitment to making color search and the entire refinish process easier and faster for our customers,” said Mary Kimbro, PPG global color director, “By using Paint It, automotive industry professionals have a very simple way to look for a vehicle’s color formulation. Color search has never been so effortless.”

Paint It is accessible through ppg-paintit.com or nexaautocolorpaintit.com Users can search for a vehicle’s color by year, model, color family, finish effect or usage. Images and data are linked together for quick and easy search results. Once the correct color is identified, formula retrieval is a click away via the Online Color Formulation tool.

Jotun To Phase Out Lead
Chromates From All
Formulations

Jotun is scheduled to phase out lead chromates in 2014. Jotun will not only comply with new EU REACH regulations but also take a global position when lead chromates are phased out from all formulations for all product categories.

However, Jotun’s project manager Jens
Christoffer Markmanrud noted that lead
chromates are still legal in many markets
where the company is active. “This global
phase out applies to paints and coatings
in all segments, worldwide,” he said. “It
is a big step, but we are confident that
by substituting lead chromates with saf-
er, high performing alternatives, we can
make a big difference.”
The phase out is consistent with