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3M Cubitron 3 high-performance abrasive

New 3M Cubitron 3 high-performance abrasives

Mechanical Processing3M

3M launches its Cubitron 3 high-performance abrasives on the market. With the new fiber discs, abrasive discs and fabric belts, sanding processes can…

Water-repellent surfaces self-cleaning KIT

KIT: New surface material repels water almost completely

CoatingsKIT

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a surface material…

Ultrapolymers ASA styrene copolymers UV-resistant surfaces

Ultrapolymers: New ASA styrene copolymers for UV-resistant surfaces

Special TopicsUltrapolymers

The portfolio of ASA styrene copolymers from Ultrapolymers is being expanded with a new, highly UV-resistant grade. It ensures permanently attractive…

Bürkert Gerabronn plant modernization expansion

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems expands and modernizes site

IndustryBürkert

Site modernization and expansion at the Bürkert plant in Gerabronn: Over the next two and a half years, an expansion of the assembly area for…

DeFelsko roughness test surfaces Testex Replica Tapes

DeFelsko with new set for surface roughness testing

AnalyticsDeFelsko

Measuring surface profiles using Testex Replica Tapes is now even easier and more precise. DeFelsko, which continues the globally popular Testex…

Dürr donation Jewish Museum Berlin

Dürr Group donates to Jewish Museum Berlin

IndustryDürr

The Dürr Group is supporting the Jewish Museum Berlin with a donation of € 5,000. The donation was pledged in mid-November on the occasion of this…

BYK European Coatings Show 2025

BYK at European Coatings Show 2025 with innovations and new developments

PaintingBYK

BYK will be presenting innovations and developments at the European Coatings Show (ECS) 2025. The topics of BYK's trade fair appearance are…

Optical coatings Medical technology Autoclave Laser Components

Laser Components: Autoclavable optical coatings

CoatingsLaser Components

Laser Components has developed laser optics for medical technology with a coating that can withstand many sterilization cycles in an autoclave. This…

Umicore Shinhao takeover of semiconductor copper plating

Umicore expands product range for semiconductors

CoatingsUmicore

Umicore's Metal Deposition Solutions (MDS) business unit is expanding its product offering for the growing semiconductor market through the…

Holzapfel surface coating hydrogen electrolysis

Holzapfel: Surface coating for hydrogen electrolysis

Corrosion ProtectionHolzapfel

Protection during hydrogen production in electrolysers: The Holzapfel Group has developed special coatings to prevent base materials such as metals…

Plantag Coatings new production facility

Plantag Coatings opens new production facility in Detmold

PaintingPlantag

Plantag Coatings has opened a state-of-the-art production facility for coating technologies in Detmold. The production of high-performance,…

Coatings Space research Thin-film coatings Montanuniversität Leoben

Thin-film coatings for space from the University of Leoben on the ISS

CoatingsMontanuniversität Leoben

Highly developed thin-film coatings from the University of Leoben have arrived on the International Space Station (ISS). The innovative coatings,…

Simulation software for vehicle painting ABB ESS

ABB: Cooperation on simulation software for paint shops

ABB

ABB has entered into a strategic cooperation with Engineering Software Steyr GmbH (ESS) to develop powerful simulation tools that will transform the…

DIN 53099 Electroplating

DIN 53099 published

GalvanizeZVO

DIN 53099 "Metallic coatings - Electroplated chromium coatings from chromium(III)-based electrolytes on copper-nickel coatings on plastics -…

PPG Senior Vice President Industrial Coatings Juliane Hefel

PPG announces management change for industrial coatings

PaintingPPG

There will be a change in leadership at PPG's Industrial Coatings business effective January 1, 2025: Juliane Hefel, currently Vice President,…

3M and Axalta car paint repair training modules

3M and Axalta cooperate on training for car paint repair

PaintingAxalta

3M and Axalta are partnering to launch a new series of training content focused on automotive paint repair. The series will include five cross-brand…

Atorn μm precision indicator Sensikator Hahn + Kolb

New µm precision indicator Sensikator from Atorn for measuring the smallest parts

AnalyticsHahn+Kolb

The new Atorn Sensikator precision indicator from Hahn + Kolb can measure minimal lengths in the thousandth of a millimeter range. Its measuring range…

Rieger Metallveredlung Management Board Co-Managing Director Igor Rudel

Rieger Metallveredlung expands management

IndustryRieger

Rieger Metallveredlung GmbH & Co. KG is expanding its management team: Igor Rudel took over the position of Co-Managing Director alongside the…

basf coatings electric truck transport

BASF Coatings successfully tests electric trucks to reduce CO2 emissions

IndustryBASF

BASF Coatings and Koch International rely on electric trucks for long-distance transport: a test phase with over 10,000 test kilometers was…

Intelligent Fluids Cooperation industrial cleaning company

Intelligent Fluids agrees cooperation with industrial cleaning company

Cleaning/PretreatIntelligent Fluids

Intelligent Fluids starts a multi-year cooperation with Europe's largest industrial cleaning company. The aim is to find environmentally friendly…

Adler 90 years Lackfabrik Schwaz

Adler-Lacke celebrates 90 years of Schwaz paint factory

PaintingAdler

The company celebrated the 90th anniversary of the Adler-Werk paint factory in Schwaz/Tyrol with a company evening. 333 employees and 101 accompanying…

BEP Surface Technologies Nanodiamond research and development Electroplating technology

BEP Surface Technologies intensifies nanodiamond research and development

GalvanizeBEP Surface Technologies

BEP Surface Technologies, a specialist in electroplating and surface finishing, has hired chemical engineer Dinesh Durgappa to drive research and…

NIR spectroscopy Pre-calibration Metrohm Omnis NIR Analyzer

Metrohm: Pre-calibrations for NIR spectroscopy

AnalyticsMetrohm

With pre-calibrations for fast application of near-infrared spectroscopy: Metrohm now offers pre-calibrations for the Omnis NIR Analyzer, making…

Plasmatreat open-air plasma system EPDM profiles Automotive industry

Plasmatreat introduces new open-air plasma system for EPDM profiles

Plasma TechnologyPlasmatreat

Plasmatreat presented a new EPDM station with open-air plasma technology at Fakuma 2024. This enables manufacturers from the automotive industry to…

QIB blasting project results blasting media test

QIB blasting project: Results of the blasting media test presented

Mechanical ProcessingVulkan Inox

The first results of the extensive QIB blasting project were presented by the experts from the Quality Association for Industrial Coating (QIB) at the…

Wagner Sales Bonding and Sealing Division

Wagner sells its bonding and sealing division

IndustryWagner

Wagner sells its bonding and sealing division to Carlisle Fluid Technologies. The Wagner Group will increasingly focus on the core area of surface…

Solar paint Electric vehicles Solar paint Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz: Solar paint for electric vehicles

PaintingMercedes-Benz

A new type of solar paint applied to the surface of electric vehicles could generate electricity for 12,000 kilometers or more per year. The…

Ecoclean EcoCcompact L + XL variant component cleaning system

Ecoclean expands EcoCcompact with L and XL variants

Cleaning/PretreatEcoclean

Ecoclean has expanded the cost-efficient EcoCcompact system for solvent cleaning and preservation with the L and XL model variants. The new product…

Hydrogen-powered paint booth AkzoNobel

AkzoNobel: Hydrogen-powered paint booth for the automotive industry

PaintingAkzo Nobel

One of the first hydrogen-powered paint booths in the automotive industry has been installed by AkzoNobel in a new training center in Belgium. Using…

Tscherwitschke machine butt-welded galvanizing drums

Tscherwitschke: 50 years of mechanically butt-welded electroplating drums

GalvanizeTscherwitschke

Richard Tscherwitschke revolutionized the electroplating industry 50 years ago with the introduction of mechanical butt welding for electroplating…

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