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automotive

BASF Reveals Automotive Color Forecast

Movement towards more color shades than in previous years as BASF staff shows off the 65 new colors they are presenting to automakers and designers around the world.

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curing

Hentzen Coatings Acquires Florida's CrossLink Powder Coatings

CrossLink produces and sells powder coatings for the general industrial and architectural market segments, and has been in business since 1996.

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Liquid Coating

Impact of REACH Regulation on the Global Finishing Market

This paper is a peer-reviewed and edited version of a presentation delivered at NASF SUR/FIN 2012 in Las Vegas, Nev., on June 12, 2012.

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economics

Global Ceramic Coatings Market Worth $5.98B In 2013

Emerging market demand for various consumer items indirectly increases demand for ceramic coatings, and as the need for cost-effective solutions for ceramic coatings to improve productivity and efficiency of machining equipment grows in importance.

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masking

SFCHINA2012 Attracts 10,000+ To Guangzhou

With China has become the world's biggest finishing market, organizers say the 25th edition of the China International Exhibition for Surface Finishing & Coating Products Nov 28-30 was well attended.

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Liquid Coating

CCAI Launches New Market Exporter Initiative

Program is designed to offer export advice while helping companies expand to new markets

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Liquid Coating

Mil-Spec Paint Color

A customer requires painting with MIL-PRF-23377, Type 1, Class N, but with a specific color requirement. The stock colors my paint supplier has found are green, aqua green and yellow, but we need a primer that can be tinted to meet FED-STD-595 color 24424, since Type 1 specifies that it be the natural color of the corrosion-inhibiting compounds used. Is the natural state the above-specified colors or a milky-white color that can be procured and tinted by any paint house?

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Electroplating

Taiwan Surface Finishing Industry Up 13% Last Year

Study shows market is NT$163.5 billion (about US$5 billion)

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economics

Five Market and Industry Trends in Surface Finishing 2012

Consider market and industry trends, and modify strategy to take advantage of them

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economics

Powder Application Equipment

Who makes the best powder coating application equipment on the market?

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