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Great chance, great challenge?

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Employing refugees with a chemical background, as well as training them, could also be a chance t ...

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings and Wilckens form new company

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Nippon Paint Marine Coatings Co. Ltd. of Kobe, Japan, and Wilckens Farben GmbH of Glückstadt, ...

Coatings technology: are biomimetics the new trend?

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As usual, we will at ECS Conference 2017 again be asking attendees to participate in a survey of ...

BASF sales slump by 29%

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In the first quarter of 2016, BASF Group sales decreased by 29% to EUR14.2 billion compared with the same quarter of ...

Full of potential: medical coating

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Researchers from the Ben- ...

Blog: Spending spree in the coatings industry

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Last week, an announcement of an acquisition popped up almost every day. And it was not just abou ...

Environmentally friendly against germs and bacteria

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All the more I appreciate antimicrobial surfaces. Thus, unwanted microorganisms can be ...

Akzo Nobel is getting closer to the top again

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With annual sales of EUR 14.3 billion Akzo Nobel trails number one seed PPG (EUR 15.36 billion). The coatings business of BASF is ranked seventh with roughly EUR 3 billion. As the industrial coat ...

Akzo Nobel reaches general agreement to buy BASF’s industria...

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BASF and Akzo Nobel have reached a general agreement on the sale of the industrial coatings business of BASF’s Coatin ...

“Green Marketing“ – only a buzz word?

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When I did a Google search, I immediately received this Wikipedia entry: "Green market ...

What is it worth having a long (business) tradition?

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For me tradition is linked to pride, history, continuity, customs, legacy and habits. As usual, t ...

Dow and DuPont: Two titans stir up the chemicals sector

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The merger would also see German competitor BASF lose its crown as the world’s largest chemical c ...

Sustainability is the new alibi for killing environment

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This is a word which makes me laugh a bit more actually. We are all uber-sustainable already, eve ...

Seeing and being seen

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The VSLF’ efforts not only include strengthening training and education but also creative measure ...

The laboratory of the future – how should it look like...

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Our expert wrote that the coatings industry was rather conservative by nature and that it lacked the creativity to look to the future. This was not his personal opinion, he added, but rather the ...

Self-healing – the latest fad?

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According to a new research report, "recent advances and ongoing improvements will help rapid and ...

Fighting the lack of skilled labour

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In Switzerland, barely one in six still works in an industrial plant. Hence, the Swiss industr ...

Bio does not equal expensive

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Cooley explains that suppliers of bio-based resins are trying to diffuse this problem by developi ...

Emerging markets slowing down: thunder in paradise?

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Weak and slowing business activities have been raising concerns in the industry about a cooling o ...

What the current crisis at VW means for the coatings industr...

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The German weekly magazine "Die Zeit" wrote this week, "a small environmental organisation expose ...

Nanotechnology: State of affairs?

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Nanotechnology has not moved out of the focus. Still, it has become a rather controversial ...

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