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Coating Insights: World market for paints and coatings grows in Q3 2022
The global market for paints and coatings grew by + 1.3 percent in volume terms in Q3 2022, according to estimates by the B2B market research and…
Evonik team wins IT award for Coatino Defect Detection
A team from Evonik's Coating Additives Business Line has won first place in the IT Voice Best Data Project Award in the large company category for its…
KST Kugel-Strahltechnik celebrates 40 years
In December 1982, the company KST Kugel-Strahltechnik started. In December 2022, the surface specialist not only looks back on 40 years of company…
The European furniture industry as a guest at Adler
For two days in late autumn 2022, the center of the European furniture industry was in Tyrol: At the international furniture industry event at the…
European chemical industry: Solvay CEO calls for European "Inflation Reduction Act
The situation in the European chemical industry remains tense. Due to high energy prices, many companies are curbing their production, while at the…
World's largest research network IGF acutely endangered
The world's largest research network "Industrielle Gemeinschaftsforschung" (IGF), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and…
BIA Slovakia becomes a wholly owned part of the BIA Group
Effective January 1, 2023, the Germany-based BIA Group will acquire all shares in the Slovakian company BIA Plastic and Plating s. r.o. from its…
Teledyne Flir introduces dew point meter for compressed air systems
Teledyne Flir announced the Extech RH600 dew point meter for accurate and rapid determination of dew point temperatures. The instrument is primarily…
Kansai Helios acquires railway coatings business from Becker Industrie
European coatings group Kansai Helios acquires global railway coatings business from Becker Industrie SAS and establishes subsidiary Kansai Helios…
Hahn + Kolb strengthens expert advice for personal protective equipment
Hahn + Kolb as a supplier of personal protective equipment (PPE) supports customers with expert advice on their individual issues. The system supplier…
ETHZ develops gold coating to prevent fogging of glasses
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) have developed a wafer-thin transparent coating of gold that can convert…
Change in management at Bürkert Fluid Control Systems
Heribert Rohrbeck worked for Bürkert Fluid Control Systems for almost three decades - 18 of them as CEO. He will now leave the company at the end of…
World's smallest magnetic core drilling machine with clockwise/anticlockwise rotation from Fein
Fein presents the world's most compact magnetic core drilling machine with clockwise/anticlockwise rotation - the KBC 36 Magforce. It has been…
SurTec acquires screw locking specialist Omnitechnik
SurTec International GmbH, Bensheim, Germany, has acquired Omnitechnik Mikroverkapselungs GmbH, Munich, Germany. The acquisition of the screw locking…
Save gas with drying technology from Adphos
Due to the low price of gas, gas dryers used to be the main type of dryer used in many surface coating processes. Currently, in view of the gas…
New Adler seminar program for wood processors
The new seminar program of the coating manufacturer Adler includes many suitable training courses for wood processors. The training courses will take…
Matte clearcoat system from Standox for professional vehicle repairs
Standox presents its new matt clearcoat system: the clearcoats Standocryl 2K System Supermatt K9150 and Standocryl 2K System Silk Gloss K9140. Due to…
Combat hazardous dusts with the new Sprintus CraftiX H safety vacuums
As of December 2022, Sprintus GmbH is adding two more certified safety vacuum cleaners to the CraftiX model range. With the CraftiX 35 H and 50 H, the…
Compressed air systems: Find leaks with Beko leakage management system
Leaks in compressed air systems drive up energy consumption and costs. Beko Technologies now offers the new Metpoint CID leakage management system.…
BASF: First biomass-balanced automotive coatings for China
BASF's ColorBrite Airspace Blue ReSource basecoat, which has been certified by REDcert using a biomass balance approach, is making its debut in the…
New generation of weighing transmitters from Minebea Intec
Minebea Intec, leading manufacturer of weighing and inspection solutions, introduces its new Link E series of weighing transmitters. For the first…
Trade fair for quality assurance Control 2023 is in preparation
The next Control, international trade fair for quality assurance, is in full preparation. From May 9 to 12, 2023, forward-looking developments from…
Dürr receives BMW Group Supplier Innovation Award
The BMW Group has honored Dürr with the BMW Group Supplier Innovation Award. Dürr received the award in the "Sustainability" category for the…
Simple solution for aerosol liquid sampling from Metrohm
With increasing air pollution, monitoring the chemical composition of aerosols (particulate matter "PM") is becoming more and more important. With the…
Materials conference Copper Alloys 2022 with focus on sustainability
At the international materials conference Copper Alloys 2022, which took place in Düsseldorf at the end of November after a Corona break of almost…
New Evonik additive Tego Powder Aid D01 improves powder coating formulations
Evonik's Coating Additives Business Line has developed a new, multifunctional polymer additive for powder coating formulations: Tego Powder Aid D01…
Hannover Messe launches Call for Papers
All interested parties who would like to participate in the supporting program of the Hannover Messe with a presentation are invited to participate in…
New data logger series from CiK for monitoring indoor spaces
The MX1104 and MX1105 Hobo series data loggers from CiK Solutions are multi-channel data loggers designed specifically for monitoring energy…
11th Symposium Deburring Technologies and Precision Surfaces 2023
When it comes to deburring and the production of precision surfaces, the deburring technologies and precision surfaces conference of fairXperts has…
Adler-Lacke receives "Austrian of the Year" award
The Austrians of the Year were chosen in mid-October at a festive gala in the Sofiensälen in Vienna. In the category "Companies with Responsibility",…
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