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Venjakob precise coating aviation

Precise coating for aviation

AdvertisementVenjakob

Discover Venjakob's high-precision, fully automated coating systems for the aerospace industry. Tailor-made solutions for maximum quality, efficiency…

Vapic Parts2clean 2025

Vapic presents itself twice at Parts2clean 2025

Cleaning/PretreatVapic

Vapic will be represented twice at Parts2clean 2025. The cleaning specialist will be exhibiting at its main stand and also - with its Bous brand - at…

Metallform takes over Kloz Group

Metallform is taken over by the Kloz Group

IndustryKloz

Metallform Wächter GmbH, based in Bretten, will be fully acquired by Felix Kloz Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs KG, based in Fellbach, on May 28, 2025.…

Oil tanker ship coating AkzoNobel anti-fouling protection Corrosion protection Ship paint

AkzoNobel marine coatings protect sail-supported oil tankers

CoatingsAkzo Nobel

AkzoNobel has equipped a Chinese oil tanker with 350,000 liters of marine coatings. The tanker saves considerable fuel and reduces CO₂ emissions with…

ZVO Head of Politics Lukas Hanstein

ZVO with new Head of Politics Lukas Hanstein

IndustryZVO

The Zentralverband Oberflächentechnik e.V. (ZVO) welcomes Lukas Hanstein, who took over the newly created position of Head of Politics full-time at…

Laser World of Photonics 2025

Laser World of Photonics 2025 reports record figures

EventsMesse München

Messer Laser World of Photonics 2025 has ended with a new exhibitor record. From June 24 to 27, 1,398 exhibitors from 41 countries presented the…

Fraunhofer IST OIC2025 Manufacturing Challenge

Fraunhofer IST wins OIC2025 Manufacturing Challenge

CoatingsFraunhofer IST

The Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST won this year's Manufacturing Challenge at the Optical Interference Coatings…

Kansai Helios Change of leadership Bastian Krauss

Kansai Helios: Change in management strengthens strategic focus

PaintingKansai Helios

Kainsai Helios is looking to further strengthen the strategic direction of the Group in the new phase of its development following the recent…

Schlötter Top 100 Award

Schlötter is one of the top 100 most innovative companies in Germany

IndustrySchlötter

Max Schlötter GmbH & Co. KG was congratulated on its Top 100 success by Ranga Yogeshwar. The award ceremony took place on June 27 in Mainz as part of…

Geiss Varibox 250 safety container modified alcohols hydrocarbons

Geiss: Safety containers for modified alcohols and hydrocarbons

Equipment/AccessoriesGeiss

With the Variobox, Richard Geiss GmbH offers a new safety container for modified alcohols and hydrocarbons. The Variobox is sustainable, safe,…

BASF Chemetall China Sustainability Award

Chemetall site in China receives award for sustainability

IndustryBASF

The Chemetall site Zhejiang Chemetall Surface Treatment Materials Co, Ltd in Pinghu, China, was recognized by the Pinghu Dushan Port Economic…

Polytec coating thickness measurement Terahertz measuring system Irys

Polytec with terahertz measuring system for thickness analysis

AnalyticsPolytec

Polytec is expanding its portfolio with a powerful system for thickness analysis: with the "Irys" terahertz measuring system from Spanish manufacturer…

VOA events training courses fall 2025

VOA events in autumn 2025: training courses on anodizing and coating

EventsVOA

The German Aluminium Surface Finishing Association (VOA) has announced the highlights of its autumn 2025 program: the laboratory workshop for…

Adler roll-to-roll coating

Adler offers customized solutions for roll-to-roll coating

CoatingsAdler

In future, Adler will also be offering its wide range of products to processors in the roll-to-roll coating sector. Customized solutions will be…

Dürr Training Center Sealing Robot Courses Paint and Thick Material Application

Dürr expands training center with sealing robot cell

CoatingsDürr

Dürr adds a sealing robot cell to its training center. Since May, customers have been trained in the latest sealing technology under real conditions…

SurTec Parts2clean 2025

SurTec at Parts2clean 2025: Efficient and sustainable parts cleaning

Cleaning/PretreatSurTec

At Parts2clean 2025, SurTec will be presenting practical solutions for maximum purity, sustainable energy savings and robust processes along the…

Benteler financing Securing bond

Benteler Group secures long-term financing

IndustryBenteler

The Benteler Group has secured its financing for the coming years: The company placed a secured bond with institutional investors in the amount of 600…

Satajet 100 B Black Sata special edition fountain pen gun

Fountain pen gun from Sata in a new special edition: Satajet 100 B Black

PaintingSata

The Sata portfolio includes the Satajet 100 B, the special tool for the application of primer and filler materials. To emphasize its importance, Sata…

Jordan Lacke product overview 2025-26

Jordan Lacke launches updated product overview

PaintingPlantag

Jordan Lacke has updated and reissued its 2025/2026 product overview under the motto "For indoors, outdoors, above and below". The revised brochure…

ABB PixelPaint Vehicle painting Stellantis DS Automobiles

ABB PixelPaint technology for electric vehicle from DS Automobiles

PaintingABB

The Italian Stellantis plant in Melfi will use ABB's innovative PixelPaint technology and single-layer paint from Nippon Paint to give the new DS N°8…

Henkel Sasol Partnership Adhesives Sustainability

Henkel and Sasol: Adhesive solutions with lower carbon emissions

Special TopicsHenkel

Henkel, a supplier of adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, and Sasol, a global technology leader in the field of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis,…

qib practice forum industrial coating 2025 call for papers

QIB Practice Forum Industrial Coating 2025: Call for Papers

EventsQIB

The next QIB Industrial Coating Practice Forum will take place on November 13 & 14, 2025 in Wetzlar. The association is therefore issuing a call for…

Rieger Metallveredelung Top 100 2025 award ceremony

Rieger Metallveredlung receives another Top 100 Award

IndustryRieger

Ranga Yogeshwar congratulates Rieger Metallveredlung on its Top 100 success. The award ceremony took place on June 27, 2025 in Mainz as part of the…

Coating CO₂-reduced HHPA Beckers Anodyne Chemistries

Beckers develops CO₂-reduced coating solution with Anodyne

PaintingBeckers

With the development of renewable hexahydrophthalic anhydride (HHPA), Beckers and Anodyne Chemistries want to create the basis for advanced coating…

Hikmicro AI algorithm thermal imaging camera

Hikmicro's AI algorithm detects leaks with thermal imaging technology

Equipment/AccessoriesHikmicro

With SuperScene and SuperScene+, Hikmicro has launched two highly intelligent algorithms onto the market. The provider of thermal imaging solutions…

Vapic new sales representative Nastaran Cordeiro

Vapic GmbH welcomes new sales representative Ramazani Cordeiro

Cleaning/PretreatVapic

Vapic GmbH, specialist for cleaning machines and technology, continues to grow: Since June 1, 2025, Nastaran Ramazani Cordeiro has been supporting the…

ITSC International Thermal Spray Conference & Exhibition 2026

ITSC 2026 in Bangkok - Conference on Thermal Coating Technology

EventsDVS

The ITSC - International Thermal Spray Conference & Exhibition, the world's leading event in the field of thermal spray technology, will take place…

Study on the global market for bio-based paints and coatings Ceresana

Ceresana examines the global market for bio-based paints and coatings

PaintingCeresana

The latest market study by Ceresana on the global market for bio-based paints and coatings forecasts that global demand for bio-based paints and…

BVS Blechtechnik folding technology Investment

BVS Blechtechnik invests in press brake technology

Mechanical ProcessingBVS Blechtechnik

BVS Blechtechnik GmbH is investing in a new all-electric Amada EGB-1303AE-C ATC bending machine and expanding its machine park with state-of-the-art…

Audi AI quality inspection of vehicle surfaces

Audi uses artificial intelligence to control vehicle surfaces

AnalyticsAudi

Audi uses artificial intelligence (AI) in many areas of the company. This includes an image-processing AI application that can check vehicle surfaces,…

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