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CIN Invests €7M to Create the First "Smart Factory"

The reconversion of CIN's liquid paints factory in Maia will allow an annual production of up to 8M litres from October. The improvements benefit CIN's Protective Coatings and Industrial segment, with expression in Europe, Africa and South America.

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Fire Protection For Steel Reaches New Levels

A breakthrough in fire protection from Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings is offering a combination of durability and ultra-fast curing not previously possible.

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DSM Drives Performance of Metal Coatings by Expanding Hybrane Resins Family

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, has today announced the launch of a new Hybrane product. This product, Hybrane CY235, will drive standards in the ACE, General Industrial and Car Refinish metal coating industries by enabling enhanced coatings performance, higher throughput and reduced energy consumption.

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Dürr Builds a Highly Automated Paint Shop with Integrated IIoT Solutions for VinFast

Start-ups from outside the automotive sector are entering the automotive market more and more frequently. VinFast is a subsidiary of VinGroup, and is the first volume automotive manufacturer from Vietnam with a particular ambition: a smart factory where 250,000 cars per year in the first phase, initially with conventional drives and in the future also with electric drives, will roll off the production line.

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HMG Paints Support Manchester Homeless Mural

Manchester based HMG Paints recently supplied a myriad of coloured masonry paints to a local initiative supporting the homeless in Manchester. Bringing a large selection of homeless charities and supporting companies together in the creation of a mural located on Ducie Street, Manchester, and now the results have been unveiled.

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Out Now Issue n. 14 of ICT_Industrial Cleaning Technologies

Supplement of ipcm^® - International Paint&Coating Magazine n. 53

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Dürr Closes Acquisition in the Industrial Environmental Technology Business

Dürr has completed the previously announced acquisition of the industrial environmental technology business of the US company Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) as of October, 5th, 2018. The transaction creates one of the leading global providers of air pollution and noise control technologies offering companies from all industries a broad range of solutions for tightening emissions regulations worldwide. The addition of the regional offices of the two environmental technology specialists, MEGTEC and Universal, significantly increases Dürr's global presence and provides a strong global platform for serving customers.

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Cabycal Provides A Mixing Room to Nissan

The Japanese multinational chooses Cabycal to remodel and modernise the facilities at its plant in Barcelona.

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Oerlikon Metco Wins International Design Awards with Innovative Thermal Spray Coating Machine

Surface One, the new flagship machine for thermal spray coatings developed by Oerlikon Metco, is the winner of two renowned international design awards.

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Dürr Receives Largest Order from Toyota in Its History

Dürr will build the new high-tech paint shop at Toyota's US plant in Georgetown, KY. Besides the EcoReflect paint application quality control system, Dürr is also supplying large paint booths and small booths/work decks, Dürr ovens, and the Ecopure^® RL, one of Dürr's most advanced exhaust-air purification systems.

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Sherwin-Williams Showcases "Mastery of Refinishing" at Automechanika Frankfurt 2018

Sherwin-Williams, through its Automotive Finishes division, brought over 100 years of experience in vehicle refinishing to life at Automechanika Frankfurt, the automotive service industry's leading trade exhibition, which welcomed 136,000 visitors between 11-15 September.

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OLPIDÜRR S.p.A. is Currently Seeking for a PFS Commissioning Engineer and a PFS Project Leader

Innovationeering 4.0 – to us this means: having the drive to pursue amazing ideas and passionately leading the way into the new digital industrial age. As a leading mechanical and plant engineering company, we are happy to hear from you, if you share our passion.

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Evonik Launches VISIOMER GLYFOMA, a Low-Odour Reactive Diluent

In Europe, VISIOMER^® GLYFOMA is label-free and registered with REACH. Reactive diluent produces exceptionally low levels of odour and emissions during handling. Biobased monomer can replace styrene and methyl methacrylate.

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Cortec Releases Biobased Alternative to Banned Paint Strippers

As more retailers pull toxic paint strippers containing methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) off the shelf, Cortec^® stands ready to offer greener biobased alternatives that do not contain these toxic substances targeted by the voluntary ban.

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DSM Strengthens its Market-Leading Position in The Development and Commercialization of Sustainable, Innovative Resins and Circular Economy Solutions

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, has today announced the strengthening of its leadership in sustainable, innovative resins & circular economy solutions with the successful expansion of its production capacity of its sustainable liquid polyester technology and other specialty resins, through the operational launch of a new state-of-the-art polyester production facility in Meppen, Germany.