Fastener Tapes: No. 7,132,144; Jennifer Roberts, assignor to Velcro Industries B.V., Curacao,...

1. AKZO NOBEL Akzo Nobel nv Velperveg 76 P O Box 9300 6800 SB Arnhem The Netherlands Tel: +31 26 366 4433 Fax: +31 26 366 3250 www.akzonobel.com Key Figures: Paint as % of Group Sales: 41% World Ranking (by volume): 1 Coatings Sales 1,280m litres Coatings Sales 5,249m [euro] ......

The following list, while not exhaustive, should provide an idea about the types of companies that are exhibiting at this year's Central European Coatings Show in Katowice. The product categories that will be on show at the exhibition include chemicals and raw materials, such as additives, extenders and fillers, fatty ......

Packaging has opened a lot of doors for Marjan Falek--both in her personal career and at Heineken, the Dutch brewer that has taken the American beer market by storm. "I am 'born and bred' Heineken," Falek says. The first company she ever worked for, Heineken moved her through a variety ......

IP to sell industrial-papers biz to Kohlberg & Co. : CT-based International Paper signs an agreement March 15 to sell its Industrial Papers Business for approximately $180 million. The division includes lightweight packaging papers, pressure-sensitive papers and related converting assets. To be sold are paper mills in DePere and Kaukauna, ......

Avery Dennison announced that its acquisition of Jackstadt GmbH has been completed.

To increase its global presence in the pressure-sensitive label-converting field, Canada-based CCL Industries will acquire European labelmaker Jarvis Porter for about $10.1 million. Among the facilities to join CCL are two U.K. sites, in Lewes and Leeds, and European plants in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Paris. Jarvis Porter converts labels ......

When is a paint not a paint? When it's a pre-formed dry film, bonded to its substrate by heating or (more often) by adhesives. In a growing number of specialist areas, the perception is that this technology can achieve results which are difficult or impossible to achieve by conventional painting....