Automotive coatings market: Asia continues to lure--and reward--carmakers and their paint...

If there's anything that gets carmakers' engines revving, it's Asia. Automobile manufacturers continue to start up sales and production operations throughout the region, as they seek new roads to increased revenue. Their endeavors have meant more opportunities for paint suppliers, and major coatings manufacturers have already shifted into high gear with their own Asia-Pacific plans, hoping to gather their own share of the bounty.

"Paralleling the rationale of the domestic auto OEM, coatings and other key suppliers view the developed domestic markets as saturated and th