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Adapta Antigraffiti

Adapta's anti-graffiti product range has been designed mainly to protect objects from acts of vandalism such as graffiti made with spray paints and/or indelible markers. Indeed, it enables to clean with common solvents and without damaging coatings.

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Helios Group and Kansai Paint Celebrating the Anniversary Year and the Opening of a New Resins Reactor

Helios Group and its owner Kansai Paint were celebrating the anniversaries - 100 years of Kansai Paint, 110 years of Helios Resins and 70 years of Belinka.

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Wimpel Inaugurates Training Center

Structure reproduces the conditions of large workshops specialized in painting services

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Out Now Issue n. 10 of ipcm Ibérica and Issue n. 22 of ipcm LatinoAmérica

Quality is today an imperative for any non-volatile good.

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No Chance for Legionella

Dry instead of wet: operators of paint shops play it safe when they choose dry separation of overspray for their facilities.

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Cetec Celebrates 25 Years with the Launch of Machines for Industrial, Building and Marking Painting

Company also introduces new airless equipment produced by the US company Titan

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AkzoNobel Combines Digital Tools to Take Color-Matching to the Next Level

A new standard in quick and reliable advanced color-matching is available to vehicle bodyshops after AkzoNobel combined two of its most innovative tools into a single system.

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Carboline Breaks Ground

Carboline has broken ground on a state-of-the-art full-scale passive fire protection testing facility at its Research, Development, & Innovation (RD&I) Center. This $4 million investment is scheduled to be complete by the end of the 2018 calendar year.

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Cool Touch Effect: Highly-Filled Polyamides with Special Properties

With its process engineering know-how and new technical possibilities, ROMIRA is able to manufacture highly-filled polyamides with some specific properties: the products are characterized by an excellent, homogeneous and fine dispersion of fillers.

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Cortec's Solutions Rehabilitate Vulnerable Structures: MCI Technology Used to Restore Historical Buildings in Europe

Saint Donatus, symbol of the city of Zadar is classified among the most famous and most valuable monuments in Croatia. Moreover, due to its unusual cylindrical appearance and robust monumentality, it belongs to the most significant European pre-Romanesque churches. The church is a protected cultural heritage listed in the Register of the Republic of Croatia on UNESCO's list.

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BASF Named a General Motors Supplier of the Year for 13th time

BASF was named a 2017 General Motors (GM) Supplier of the Year for the thirteenth time since 2002. The award is presented to suppliers who distinguish themselves by meeting performance metrics for quality, execution, innovation, and total enterprise cost.

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AkzoNobel Adds Exclusive Sparkle To Diamond Coated Sunreef Yachts Catamaran

The world's first diamond coated multihull yacht is due to make its debut later this year thanks to an innovative partnership between AkzoNobel and Jean Boulle Luxury.

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Premium Cortec M-540 Additive Enables Bio-Based and Ester-Based Greases to Pass Rust Prevention Test in 5% Seawater

A good corrosion inhibiting additive can fundamentally boost the performance of grease used in equipment exposed to harsh conditions of humidity and salt spray. While greases themselves provide a measure of corrosion protection, bearings and gears are more vulnerable to corrosion during periods of inactivity when the grease is not circulating.

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Dürr RoDip E wins Red Dot Award 2018 For Outstanding Product Design

"Form follows function" – this principle not only applies to innovative automobiles, but also the plants in which they are produced. The new cover for the trolley drive of the Dürr RoDip® rotational dip coating process provides impressive proof of this. For this reason it won the Red Dot in Red Dot Award: Product Design 2018.

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Interfacial Rheology: New Instrument For Analysing Oscillating Drops Of Surfactant Solutions

At ACHEMA in Frankfurt, Germany, from June 11 to 15, KRÜSS will be presenting a newly developed measuring instrument for interfacial rheology, the Drop Shape Analyzer – DSA30R.

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