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Taking a New Approach to Open Innovation

Innovation is key to both reaching business goals and developing effective solutions for the tough challenges facing our world today. Open innovation–—the leveraging of knowledge from all potential sources within ... Read More…

  • Topic: Business / Market Trends
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ECS to Offer Applications Short Course; Registration Now Open for Eastern Coatings Show, Slated for May 15–17

The Eastern Coatings Federation has announced that The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Polymers and Higher Performance Materials will present an abbreviated short course on new coatings applications ... Read More…

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Reaching the Next Coatings Galaxy: EC Show to Highlight Sustainable and Functional Products

For industries based on sophisticated, advanced materials and technologies, continued growth depends heavily on the level of innovation achieved throughout the supply chain. That innovation cannot occur in a vacuum; ... Read More…

  • Topic: Conferences
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All Signs Point to More M&A in Paints and Coatings

Despite being a seller’s market, the high level of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the paint and coatings industry is expected to continue and potentially even pick up slightly. ... Read More…

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A Brief History of Automotive Coatings Technology

The oft-quoted statement above of Henry Ford is humorous today, but Ford was serious when he said it. In 1908, Ford thought that black car paint was the only practical ... Read More…

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