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SIAP, France, surface treatment, cataphoresis and painting
F O C U S ChemPoint on 23 Dec 2008, choosing to directly market its products to consumers. Chemical Week, 15 Dec 2008, (Website: http://www.chemweek.com)
Business digest: Dow unveils plan to reorganize Rohm and Haas USA-based Dow Chemical plans to restructure Rohm & Haas after it has completed the acquisition. The deal is anticipated to be finalised in early 2009. Six business groups will comprise the renamed Rohm & Haas Advanced Materials Division. These are coatings, building and construction, paper and textiles, speciality packaging and films, designed polymers and separation technologies, and electronic materials. Chemistry and Industry (London), 8 Dec 2008, (23), 13 (Website: http://www.chemind.org)
AkzoNobel targeting growth in India AkzoNobel intends to expand its presence in the Indian market by setting up a new coatings production unit in India. The plant will produce coil and speciality plastic coatings. This plant is planned to be built in Hoskote, near Bangalore with its existing marine and protective coatings, powder coatings and coil coatings manufacturing units. This new plant will thus increase the company’s coil coatings’ production capacity. These coil coatings find their utility in high performance steel and aluminium products, used for the construction business in India and its neighbouring countries. The first phase of the project is scheduled for completion by early 2010. Presently, AkzoNobel garners a total income of around €200 M in India and looks ahead to increase this value significantly in the coming years. AkzoNobel is a world’s major coatings and speciality chemicals company, which has about 1,500
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employees in India. The company operates six production units, two research laboratories and around twelve sales offices in India.
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Chemical Weekly, 25 Nov 2008, 54 (15), 126
tonnes/y of paint to treat 4,500 pieces/day. Its site in Savigny has a turnover of €4 M. It has a new powder painting facility in Lentilly, where it has increased its capacity.
DuPont Powder Coatings France
Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 14 (in French)
DuPont established its Star Coater network of professionals using powder paints in the USA in 2003. The 2nd country was France in 2007. In France the Star Coater network has 57 members in 38 departments. These 57 are from a total of 650 such professionals in France. Some of the DuPont Powder Coatings France products are discussed: Alesta Cool improves the reflection of infrared radiation from some dark colours, and a primer Alesta without zinc. DuPont and Agion Technologies, Wakefield, MA, USA, have launched Alesta AM as an antimicrobial. Alesta AC ULB is an acrylic powder paints for very low temperatures.
TSD Group, France, anticorrosion protection and coating
Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 10-12 (in French)
Thailand based Jotun Powder Coatings intends to tap into the hospital market and boost its sales volumes in China to preserve growth in 2009. Orders from the steel sector, which accounts for 85% of the company’s revenue, noticeably diminished. The company aims to generate Baht 720 M in sales revenue in 2008, up 12% against 2007 figures. Jotun plans to lift sales volumes in China by 10 tonnes/mo in 2009 from the current 23 tonnes/mo.
SIAP, France, surface treatment, cataphoresis and painting SIAP, Lyons region, France, a family company, is involved in surface treatment, cataphoresis and powder painting. Its equipment and facilities are discussed, with an emphasis on coating vehicle parts. The cataphoric bath uses PPG lead free technology. It has joined the DuPont Star Coater club to make its powder technology better known.
The TSD Group, Normandy, France, has 3 specialities: cataphoresis, MetalJacket and auto deposition of powder paints. Some history and activities of the company are discussed. It has agreed to use MetalJacket technology from AquaArmor, North America. It is investing less in Western Europe and considers it will be international within 5 years. Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 17 (in French)
Jotun targets Thai hospitals market
APCJ, Asia Pacific Coatings Journal, Dec 2008, 21 (6), 8
Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 14 (in French)
Calpi Color, France, surface treatment, powder and liquid painting Calpi Color, France is involved in surface treatment, powder painting and liquid painting. It has 60 employees and buys 130
NEW PRODUCTS Heavy metal: new protective metal coatings from DSM DSM Powder Coating Resins has unveiled Uralac Corres to meet
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Business digest: Dow unveils plan to reorganize Rohm and Haas USA-based Dow Chemical plans to restructure Rohm & Haas after it has completed the acquisition. The deal is anticipated to be finalised in early 2009. Six business groups will comprise the renamed Rohm & Haas Advanced Materials Division. These are coatings, building and construction, paper and textiles, speciality packaging and films, designed polymers and separation technologies, and electronic materials. Chemistry and Industry (London), 8 Dec 2008, (23), 13 (Website: http://www.chemind.org)
AkzoNobel targeting growth in India AkzoNobel intends to expand its presence in the Indian market by setting up a new coatings production unit in India. The plant will produce coil and speciality plastic coatings. This plant is planned to be built in Hoskote, near Bangalore with its existing marine and protective coatings, powder coatings and coil coatings manufacturing units. This new plant will thus increase the company’s coil coatings’ production capacity. These coil coatings find their utility in high performance steel and aluminium products, used for the construction business in India and its neighbouring countries. The first phase of the project is scheduled for completion by early 2010. Presently, AkzoNobel garners a total income of around €200 M in India and looks ahead to increase this value significantly in the coming years. AkzoNobel is a world’s major coatings and speciality chemicals company, which has about 1,500
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POWDER
employees in India. The company operates six production units, two research laboratories and around twelve sales offices in India.
C OAT I N G S
Chemical Weekly, 25 Nov 2008, 54 (15), 126
tonnes/y of paint to treat 4,500 pieces/day. Its site in Savigny has a turnover of €4 M. It has a new powder painting facility in Lentilly, where it has increased its capacity.
DuPont Powder Coatings France
Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 14 (in French)
DuPont established its Star Coater network of professionals using powder paints in the USA in 2003. The 2nd country was France in 2007. In France the Star Coater network has 57 members in 38 departments. These 57 are from a total of 650 such professionals in France. Some of the DuPont Powder Coatings France products are discussed: Alesta Cool improves the reflection of infrared radiation from some dark colours, and a primer Alesta without zinc. DuPont and Agion Technologies, Wakefield, MA, USA, have launched Alesta AM as an antimicrobial. Alesta AC ULB is an acrylic powder paints for very low temperatures.
TSD Group, France, anticorrosion protection and coating
Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 10-12 (in French)
Thailand based Jotun Powder Coatings intends to tap into the hospital market and boost its sales volumes in China to preserve growth in 2009. Orders from the steel sector, which accounts for 85% of the company’s revenue, noticeably diminished. The company aims to generate Baht 720 M in sales revenue in 2008, up 12% against 2007 figures. Jotun plans to lift sales volumes in China by 10 tonnes/mo in 2009 from the current 23 tonnes/mo.
SIAP, France, surface treatment, cataphoresis and painting SIAP, Lyons region, France, a family company, is involved in surface treatment, cataphoresis and powder painting. Its equipment and facilities are discussed, with an emphasis on coating vehicle parts. The cataphoric bath uses PPG lead free technology. It has joined the DuPont Star Coater club to make its powder technology better known.
The TSD Group, Normandy, France, has 3 specialities: cataphoresis, MetalJacket and auto deposition of powder paints. Some history and activities of the company are discussed. It has agreed to use MetalJacket technology from AquaArmor, North America. It is investing less in Western Europe and considers it will be international within 5 years. Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 17 (in French)
Jotun targets Thai hospitals market
APCJ, Asia Pacific Coatings Journal, Dec 2008, 21 (6), 8
Double Liaison, Dec 2008, 6 (566), 14 (in French)
Calpi Color, France, surface treatment, powder and liquid painting Calpi Color, France is involved in surface treatment, powder painting and liquid painting. It has 60 employees and buys 130
NEW PRODUCTS Heavy metal: new protective metal coatings from DSM DSM Powder Coating Resins has unveiled Uralac Corres to meet
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