Air Power, a leading distributor of industrial products and integrated solutions provider based in High Point, North Carolina, has acquired Zenmar Power Tool and Hoist Systems of Cockeysville, Maryland.

PPG has formed a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for a research initiative aimed at developing energy-efficient coatings systems for the automotive industry.

Thom Bell has been around the finishing industry for a long time, and thought he had seen it all. He was wrong.

Editor’s note: Huzaifa Matawala is the president of Matawala Group of Industries, a paint recycling consultant at Regent Paints, and the CEO of the Paint Foundation in New York, a 501c3 that has an innovative approach to recycling paint waste and reusing paints in an environmentally-conscious way.

Automotive tier supplier Mahle Behr had a situation on its hands when only one certified paint company met its rigorous heavy truck specification for underhood black paint on aluminum, and the coating was increasingly difficult to work with. The search began for another paint supplier that could be certified to this demanding spec.

Akriti Agarwal is the global paint and coatings manager at Mercury Marine in the Greater Milwaukee area.