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Onshore oil and gas industryapplications, however, remainsthe largest consumer of industrialmaintenance coatings in terms ofvalue. Four companies, namelyRPM, Sherwin Williams,AkzoNobel and PPG, account foralmost 60% of the US industrialmaintenance coatings market. Atable presents the value of theindustrial maintenance paints end-use markets in 2008.

Coatings World, Jun 2010, 15 (6), 19-20

DSM will continue its innovationstrategy of combining biotech andmaterial science

DSM is banking on its lifescience and material sciencebusiness to continue makinginnovative products that couldboost its revenue by €1.5 bn($2.3 bn) through 2015. A DSMexecutive says the Dutchcompany is well on coursetoward realizing its target ofgenerating additional sales of €1bn from innovative products andapplications compared with 2005levels, under its Vision 2010strategy. The five-year businessplan, which started in 2005,places emphasis on portfoliotransformation by bolstering thecompany’s Life Sciences andMaterials Sciences businesses,both in their distinct fields and intheir combination. DSM plans tolaunch on 22 Sep 2010 a newfive-year innovation profit margintarget aimed at raising revenuesto €300 M/y from new products,new application of existingproducts, and sales of patent-protected products, up from the€200 M/y target set in 2005-2010. The company establishedin 2005 four Emerging BusinessAreas (EBAs) – biomedicalmaterials, white biotechnology,speciality packaging and personalnutrition – according to the strongpoints and synergies of its lifesciences and material sciencesportfolio. DSM will continue tofinance and further expand thebiomedical materials and whitebiotechnology EBAs as theyproved to be successful. The

company, meanwhile, iscontemplating on expanding thespeciality packaging and personalnutrition fields in partnerships,which will lead to the creation ofone or two new EBAs through2015. DSM is looking at biofuelsand solar cells. In biofuels, DSMwill be able to capitalize on itsstrengths in fermentationprocessing and enzyme process.In the solar area, DSM is workingto enhance its solar antireflectivecoating system called KhepriCoatwhich might help enhance theefficiency of solar modules.DSM’s nanotechnology-basedantireflective picture glass Clarylalso has potential solar cellapplications.

ICIS Chemical Business, 21 Jun 2010,(Website: http://icischemicalbusiness.com)

Coatings market: raw materialscosts are on the increase

The rising demand for rawmaterials for the manufacture ofcoatings, printing inks andadhesives is leading to shortagesin the supply chain. In addition tothis, the prices for the mostcommon raw materials increasedworldwide during the last 6months. The industrialassociations VdL, EuPIA and IVKreport price increases of between10-30%, in some cases even50%. German manufacturers ofpaints and coatings predict aturnover increase of 3.5% in 2010but raw material costs are risingfaster than turnover. The VdLreports that raw materials for thecoating manufacture rose bymore than 10% overall, andincreased by 25% for someproducts. The European PrintingInks Association (EuPIA) reportsthat the costs for frequently usedraw materials for the manufactureof printing inks rose by more than30% worldwide during the last 6months, in some cases over50%. Higher prices are causedby shortages in the supply chainas well as a rising demand forthese materials, particularly ingrowth markets. The associationviews this development as an

additional burden on the printinginks industry, which is currentlycharacterised by zero growth.The adhesives segment is alsoaffected: the petrochemicalsindustry scaled down theircapacities for speciality chemicalsduring the economic crisis in2009 and is now unable to meetthe rapidly rising demand forcommodity chemicals. Howeverthere should not be anyshortages of adhesives asmanufacturers are reformulatingtheir recipes and use alternativeraw materials, according to thePlastics Industry Association(IVK).

Farbe und Lack, Jul 2010, 116 (7), 11 (inGerman)

Foreign trade of coatings by theFederal Republic of Germany in 1Q2010

A table lists imports and exportsof coatings by Germany in 1Q2009 and 1Q 2010 with changesin percentages. The table issectioned by different regions andcountries, including Europe, theEU, America, Africa, Asia andAustralia. German imports ofcoatings increased by 5.8% to49,917 tonnes in 1Q 2010.During the same period Germanexports of coatings rose by16.9% to 160,665 tonnes.

Farbe und Lack, Jul 2010, 116 (7), 10 (inGerman)

Building for the future: overviewof the Middle East paints andcoatings industry

The Middle East representsapproximately 6% of the globalcoatings market, with most of thedemand accounted for by theconstruction industry. The paintand coatings industry in theregion had benefited fromsignificant growth in the region’sconstruction business over theprevious years. However, stalledprojects, the global economiccrisis, and Dubai’s world debtrepayment problem havesomehow affected the current