Valspar Corporation has opened a
new advanced manufacturing center in
Tianjin, China to serve customers with a
wide range of innovative paints and coatings products.
“Valspar has experienced strong
growth in China as customer demand for
high-performance and specified coatings
continue to increase in this large market,”
said Gary E. Hendrickson, Valspar chairman and chief executive officer. “This
investment furthers our technology and
sustainability leadership to support our
customers’ needs in this important region.”
The new Tianjin manufacturing center was designed to achieve top safety
and quality performance while delivering
best-in-class productivity. The facility features expanded capacity for waterborne
coatings products with fully automated
production and high-speed filling lines.
Valspar’s state-of-the-art facilities are
designed for high productivity, and safe,
“Health, safety and environmental
performance has been engineered into
the Tianjin site, which is important to
our employees, our customers and our
neighbors,” said Derrick Tay, president
of Valspar Asia. “Valspar’s expanded pro-
duction capacity and sustainability lead-
ership positions us well to continue to
grow our business in Asia.”
PPG Announces Partnership
with National Nonprofit
to Support Independent
Dealers
The new PPG Pittsburgh Paints brand
has announced its exclusive paint-brand
partnership with Independent We Stand,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to the
revival of independent, locally-owned
and -operated businesses. The PPG
Pittsburgh Paints brand is sold exclu-
sively by independent dealers across the
U.S., while the nonprofit group encour-
ages consumers to shop at independent
businesses to help stimulate the economy
in their communities.
Through the PPG Pittsburgh Paints
brand partnership with Independent We
Stand, independent dealers in the U.S.
that sell PPG Pittsburgh Paints products
receive an immediate premium membership to Independent We Stand, which includes access to its marketing materials,
resources, signage and more.
Prior to 2015, Devoe Paint was the
exclusive paint partner of Independent
We Stand. In early 2015, PPG announced the new PPG Pittsburgh Paints
brand, which combined the Devoe Paint
and PPG Pittsburgh Paints brands into
one unified brand.
Valspar Corporation Opens New Advanced
Manufacturing Center in China for Paints & Coatings
Axalta Coats the World’s Second Largest Radio Telescope
Axalta Coating Systems has produced a special coating for the
radio telescope in Effelsberg, Germany, one of the largest, fully-steerable radio telescopes in the world, and the most powerful
for short-wave radiation. The Effelsberg telescope is used to observe pulsars, cold gas and dust clusters, star formations, jets of
matter emitted by black holes, and the nuclei of far-off galaxies.
It is also used as part of a worldwide network of radio telescopes
for astronomic observations at the highest resolutions.
Axalta helps to protect the telescope from weathering and
UV radiation with a matte-white polyvinylic coating called Perco Top CS551 Foliflex Topcoat. This specially-formulated, tailor-made coating has been applied to the telescope approximately
every 18 years since it began operating in 1972.
Painting the telescope takes a minimum of six specially
trained painters several weeks.
The coating is applied with rollers, with no primer, after sanding the surface of the telescope using large disc sanders with a
diameter of approximately 20cm. The large sanders, which resemble vacuum cleaners, allow the painters to sand and collect
the dust generated simultaneously.
The work will be completed in summer 2015, and the Effelsberg radio telescope will continue delivering accurate measurements while being protected with Axalta’s Perco Top CS551
Foliflex Topcoat.
