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Paints and coatings: 2008
F O C U S technologies. Major industry players say that technology development will create growth opportunities for the industry. Research is now focused on powder coatings that can be cured at low temperatures, allowing their use on plastics and woods that cannot withstand the high temperatures required for curing current powder coating offerings. A pie chart shows the size and segmentation of North America’s powder coatings market. Another pie chart illustrates technology segmentation of North America’s powder coatings market. PPCJ, Polymers, Paint, Colour Journal, Oct 2008, 198 (4529), 12,14
R and D has new lease of life New R and D developments have been presented at the recent Fatipec 2008 Congress. One paper focused on the use of thermally cross-linkable polymers to repair damaged powder coatings by simply heating the
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object above a certain threshold temperature. Another paper presented an alternative flow and levelling agent that overcomes problems encountered by current commercial additives. Meanwhile, the powder coatings industry recently saw a flurry of M & A activities. BASF has launched a €3.8 bn bid to acquire no less than two-thirds of Ciba’s registered shares. The deal is anticipated to conclude in 1Q 2009 at the latest. This will bolster the company’s ranking in the plastics additives, paper chemicals and coating effect materials market. Protech/ Oxyplast Group is slated to purchase the powder coatings business of US firm EnviroPowder. PPCJ, Polymers, Paint, Colour Journal, Oct 2008, 198 (4529), 16
Paints and coatings: 2008 Concerns among paint and coatings companies is growing as the weak economy causes the
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C OAT I N G S automotive and housing sectors to slow. The global architectural sector of the paints and coatings market suffered over 20% in reduction, and a more than 17% decline was experienced in the global automotive OEM sector. AkzoNobel noted more sluggish demand in the architectural paints markets of the USA and the UK. The integration of the company’s ICI unit, which was bought for £8.1 bn ($16.1 bn) in early 2008, is scheduled at the end of 2010. For its 3Q 2008 profits, PPG Industries reported $117 M, down 39%, on sales up 37%, to $4.2 bn. The company’s proposed reorganization is expected to produce around $100 M/y in cost savings by the end of 2009. Under the restructuring, several plants will be shut down in Clarkson, ON, and Geldermalsen, the Netherlands. A table shows sales of the world’s largest paintmakers in billions of dollars. Chemical Week, 10 Nov 2008, (Website: http://www.chemweek.com)
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R and D has new lease of life New R and D developments have been presented at the recent Fatipec 2008 Congress. One paper focused on the use of thermally cross-linkable polymers to repair damaged powder coatings by simply heating the
O N
POWDER
object above a certain threshold temperature. Another paper presented an alternative flow and levelling agent that overcomes problems encountered by current commercial additives. Meanwhile, the powder coatings industry recently saw a flurry of M & A activities. BASF has launched a €3.8 bn bid to acquire no less than two-thirds of Ciba’s registered shares. The deal is anticipated to conclude in 1Q 2009 at the latest. This will bolster the company’s ranking in the plastics additives, paper chemicals and coating effect materials market. Protech/ Oxyplast Group is slated to purchase the powder coatings business of US firm EnviroPowder. PPCJ, Polymers, Paint, Colour Journal, Oct 2008, 198 (4529), 16
Paints and coatings: 2008 Concerns among paint and coatings companies is growing as the weak economy causes the
Focus on Powder Coatings (ISSN 1364-5439) is published monthly by Elsevier Ltd, Block 6, Westbrook Centre, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1YG, UK. 2009 annual subscription rate: US$1137/€1011 (in Europe)/¥134,400 (in Japan) Material published in Focus on Powder Coatings includes abstracts sourced from Chemical Business NewsBase (CBNB) (E-mail: [email protected]) CBNB is available as part of a subscription to Ei’s EngineeringVillage discovery platform. Visit our website for more details: http://www.ei.org/databases/cbnb.html Orders and enquiries Elsevier Ltd, Block 6, Westbrook Centre, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1YG, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1223 463160. Fax: +44 (0) 1223 463169. E-mail: [email protected] For US orders Elsevier Journals Customer Service, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800, USA. US Customers Tel: +1 (877) 839 7126. Fax: +1 (407) 363 1354. Customers outside US Tel: +1 (407) 345 4020. Fax: +1 (407) 363 1354 Other Locations Elsevier Customer Support Department, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 20 3853757. Fax: +31 20 4853432. E-mail: [email protected]
C OAT I N G S automotive and housing sectors to slow. The global architectural sector of the paints and coatings market suffered over 20% in reduction, and a more than 17% decline was experienced in the global automotive OEM sector. AkzoNobel noted more sluggish demand in the architectural paints markets of the USA and the UK. The integration of the company’s ICI unit, which was bought for £8.1 bn ($16.1 bn) in early 2008, is scheduled at the end of 2010. For its 3Q 2008 profits, PPG Industries reported $117 M, down 39%, on sales up 37%, to $4.2 bn. The company’s proposed reorganization is expected to produce around $100 M/y in cost savings by the end of 2009. Under the restructuring, several plants will be shut down in Clarkson, ON, and Geldermalsen, the Netherlands. A table shows sales of the world’s largest paintmakers in billions of dollars. Chemical Week, 10 Nov 2008, (Website: http://www.chemweek.com)
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