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This website provides you with current news; reports on exhibitions and conferences; products; features and general information on your industry and is an additional service for our journal readers, which enhances the overall package we offer our subscribers.

We will regularly report on the latest issues in paints and polymers.  Please browse the website for recent news articles and exhibition updates from the latest editions of PPCJ.

There is a natural synergy between the coatings business and the adhesives business with many of the same companies operating in both industries and adhesive and coatings products using very similar raw materials.

Therefore, it made considerable sense for the once separate EAS journal to be incorporated into PPCJ from 2004 and give both magazines the benefit of an extended readership across both industries.

AkzoNobel to invest in further plants in India

With plans to become a €1bn (Rs 6800 crore) entity in India by 2015, AkzoNobel has announced it will invest Rs 200 crore to set up a manufacturing plant in Madhya Pradesh.

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Elcometer opens office in Japan

UK-based Elcometer has announcd the opening of its office in Japan, Elcometer KK.

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Great start for first PaintExpo Eurasia

“Our participation at the trade fair was a success and we hope that PaintExpo Eurasia will take place regularly in the future” – this was the conclusion arrived at by nearly all of the 98 exhibitors at the first international trade fair for industrial coating technology in Istanbul.

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Coatex rewarded for its eco-friendly additives at Green Industrial Coating

Coatex received ‘The Best Coating Raw Materials Environmental Friendly Award’ at the Green Industrial Coating Asia (GICA) on October 18, in Shanghai.

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Bayer sells Viverso to Nuplex

Bayer MaterialScience has signed a contract for the sale of its Viverso subsidiary to Nuplex Industries for €75M.

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