On Day 4 of the HOT ROD Power Tour 2005 we ran across an interestingdisplay tucked in a corner of the massive parking lot at the GaylordOpryland Hotel in Nashville, TN. Auto Air Colors was putting on ...

Crestmont Cadillac’s Collision Repair Shop has switched to a new environmentally-friendly waterborne automotive refinishing system. It’s joined an elite group of auto collision and repair centers in ...

With the push toward "greener" ways of doing things, especially in the automotive world, more and more shops are moving to waterborne paints, and in states like California this move is pretty much ...

BROKEN ARROW, OK -- Employees at a Broken Arrow body shop say no matter what color they paint your car, it will always stay green. Premier Collision is the only auto shop in the area to switch to ...

Automotive paint technology has come a long way since Henry Ford famously stated, "The customer can get the Model T painted in any color he wants, so long as it's black!" This was the only option in ...

The new coating plant in Thailand has a production capacity of 2,000t. Credit: PPG. PPG has launched a new waterborne automotive coatings manufacturing plant in Samut Prakan, Thailand, aimed at ...

BASF has spent EUR2.5m (US$3.5m) at its Demarchi coatings site, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, to expand its capacity to supply the local automotive industry with waterborne paint. The ...

Since 2026, the prices of chemical raw materials have continued to rise. The coatings industry is deeply squeezed by the dual pressures of rising operating costs and weak downstream market demand.