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Teknos at PaintExpo 2024 with a focus on energy efficiency
Teknos will be presenting pioneering coating solutions with a clear focus on energy and cost efficiency and increased productivity at its stand during…
Chemetall opens new aluminum competence center in Italy
Chemetall celebrates the opening of a new global aluminum competence center in Italy. It strengthens the Surface Treatment business unit of BASF's…
Asis: Reorganization of the management
Asis is setting the course for achieving further strategic goals by reorganizing its management team. To this end, the automation technology expert is…
Low-solvent process for rubber coating on metal from Huehoco
Huehoco GmbH invested in a rubber extrusion direct coating system with subsequent inline vulcanization, which requires less film, solvents and energy.…
Kansai Helios takes over Weilburger industrial coatings
Kansai Helios acquires the industrial coatings business operating under the name Weilburger Coatings from Grebe Holding. Weilburger Coatings is a…
Fraunhofer Cleaning: Advanced training in industrial parts cleaning
Training and further education opportunities in industrial parts cleaning are rare. The newly designed and exclusive advanced training course to…
Parts Finishing 2024: New trade fair for quality finishing
The new Parts Finishing trade fair for quality finishing in parts production will be held for the first time at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Center on…
VDMA guideline "Welding without fume - capturing, extracting and filtering"
The VDMA Working Group on Dedusting Technology summarizes the most important regulations on air pollution control at welding workstations in the…
EnviroChemie takes over DLK Technologies
The Swiss company EnviroChemie AG acquired DLK Technologies SA from Le Locle in western Switzerland on December 12, 2023. DLK Technologies has been…
Tiger Coatings at the PaintExpo 2024
At PaintExpo 2024, Tiger Coatings will be showcasing powder coating highlights such as the highly weather-resistant Tiger Drylac Series 68 and the…
Axalta's car color of the year 2024: Starry Night
Axalta Coating Systems has announced its Automotive Color of the Year 2024 - Starry Night. With the latest color, Axalta presents its car color of the…
IBA Kimya low-temperature powder coating for greater sustainability and CO2 reduction
IBA Powder Coatings is expanding its range of polyester and epoxy/polyester powder coatings that cure at low temperatures and therefore reduce energy…
Wacker with validated climate neutrality target for 2045
The independent Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has validated Wacker's goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2045. This makes Wacker one of…
Excelitas Noblelight at PaintExpo 2024: Infrared and UV technology
Excelitas Noblelight will be presenting infrared and UV technology, with UV LED and microwave systems, for sustainable coating solutions at the…
MacDermid Enthone takes over All-Star Chemical
MacDermid Enthone Industrial Solutions has announced the acquisition of All-Star Chemical Company, a manufacturer of chemical solutions for surface…
Panacol: Adhesives and UV-curing systems for flexible electronics
Panacol and Hönle UV Technology have developed solutions consisting of multifunctional adhesives and UV curing units that can be customized for novel…
Adler at Fensterbau Frontale 2024: New window and front door coatings
At the Fensterbau Frontale 2024 trade fair, Adler Lacke invites you to set the course for a sustainable future - with the new Aquawood Terra window…
Adphos: Drying plastic films energy-efficiently and without CO2 emissions
Thanks to the newly developed aLite (Advanced Light Initiated Thermal Emission) technology from Adphos, the energy-efficient and completely CO2-free…
Metallization system from Singulus Technologies for the packaging industry
Singulus Technologies is supplying a polycoater system to a leading Italian packaging company. The metallization system is based on the principle of…
B+T Sustainability Strategy 2024
Under the motto "Let's go green now", the B+T Group launched its campaign to achieve its climate targets in the middle of last year; its own…
Kluthe at PaintExpo 2024: Innovative products and process expertise
As an exhibitor at PaintExpo 2024, Chemische Werke Kluthe GmbH will be presenting its resource-efficient Decorrdal thin-film technology,…
LPW sales strengthened by new application specialist
In January 2024, LPW Reinigungssysteme GmbH gained a new application specialist in the form of Alexander Haffelder. Haffelder has been working in the…
Parts2clean switches to biennial event dates
From now on, Parts2clean will be held every two years in the odd-numbered calendar years and will therefore take place again in 2025. This was decided…
AkzoNobel once again recognized as a top employer
AkzoNobel has been ranked as a top employer in Germany by the Top Employers Institute for the third time in a row. According to the institute, the…
Supfina at Simodec 2024: Superfinish attachments for lathes
At the Simodec 2024 trade fair in La Roche-sur-Foron, France, Supfina will be showcasing the Supfina Fact, a compact belt finishing attachment…
ABB acquires Sevensense as a provider of AI-supported navigation
ABB has acquired the Swiss start-up Sevensense, a leading provider of AI-supported 3D vision navigation technology for autonomous mobile robots (AMR).…
Wagner at PaintExpo 2024: Sustainable and smart coating solutions
At PaintExpo 2024, Wagner is placing a major focus on saving solvents, materials and energy in its product range. The products and systems also…
Schlötter opens branch office in Taiwan
Dr.- Ing. Max Schlötter GmbH & Co. KG opens a new branch office in Taipei, Taiwan. The supplier of copper electrolytes for the PCB industry is thus…
New Norton RazorStar abrasive belts with high-performance ceramic grain
A new high-performance ceramic grain in the Norton RazorStar abrasive belts ensures improved stock removal, longer service life and cooler grinding…
BYK's paint additives division under the new management of Marcel Krohnen
Specialty chemicals manufacturer BYK is bringing Marcel Krohnen back after two and a half years as head of the global coating additives business. At…
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