Over 80 screen printers, designers and print buyers attended the recent launch of Coates Special Product's new Colour Guide at the London Press Centre. The standard colours are…
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Over 80 screen printers, designers and print buyers attended the recent launch of Coates Special Product's new Colour Guide at the London Press Centre. The standard colours are available in a range of five different inks: lead‐free CoSol for ultra fast drying paper and board work, Screenlac, a fast drying ink for paper board and many other display materials, Alka, specifically designed for hand frame printing, and Vynafresh and Vynaglaze, low odour inks for both rigid and flexible PVC. This immediately provides colour agreement for printers who often have to work on a variety of substrates. In all, there are 170 different colours in the new guide.
The new £½m warehouse, built by Synthetic Resins Ltd at their Speke production centre, has become operational and all resin stocks will in future be held in covered storage areas.
Swale Chemicals have formed a joint company with Gibbon Inks to manufacture liquid inks and lacquers in Ireland. The new company is Swale‐Gibbon Ltd, operating from 21 Cookstown…
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Swale Chemicals have formed a joint company with Gibbon Inks to manufacture liquid inks and lacquers in Ireland. The new company is Swale‐Gibbon Ltd, operating from 21 Cookstown, Belgrade Road, Tallaght, Co. Dublin.
Hadfields Industrial Coatings recently held their first sales conference since signing a five‐year technical licensing agreement with Ripolin‐Duco of France.
Macpherson Powders Ltd, part of the Donald Macpherson Group, opened its new factory last month on the Group's Jenkins Lane, Barking site. It is producing both thermoplastic and…
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Macpherson Powders Ltd, part of the Donald Macpherson Group, opened its new factory last month on the Group's Jenkins Lane, Barking site. It is producing both thermoplastic and thermosetting powders. Covering almost 14,000 sq. ft. this purpose built factory also incorporates offices, quality control and development laboratories. A customer demonstration department housing some of the latest powder coating application equipment is also sited within this self‐contained unit.
At a press conference in London last month, Mr P Y (Ben) Sipila, chairman and chief executive of the Donald Macpherson Group outlined the company's plans for the hew streamlined…
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At a press conference in London last month, Mr P Y (Ben) Sipila, chairman and chief executive of the Donald Macpherson Group outlined the company's plans for the hew streamlined and specialised industrial coatings organisation. He opened his address by pointing out that since Tikkurila of Finland acquired the group in June 1984 they had emerged from the economic dperession and ‘were already a force to be reckoned with’. He went on to say:
ICI sells part of industrial paints business to Macpherson. ICI Paints Division and the Donald Macpherson Group have come to an agreement under which part of ICI's industrial…
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ICI sells part of industrial paints business to Macpherson. ICI Paints Division and the Donald Macpherson Group have come to an agreement under which part of ICI's industrial paints business will be transferred to Macphersons.
The Donald Macpherson Group Plc, one of the country's leading manufactuers of industrial and decorative surface coatings, is 100 years old. To mark the occasion the Group's…
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The Donald Macpherson Group Plc, one of the country's leading manufactuers of industrial and decorative surface coatings, is 100 years old. To mark the occasion the Group's industrial manufacturing units last month invited their major customers to celebrate the event with Macpherson's at a centenary roadshow held at seven locations throughout the country.
Donald Macpherson Group have acquired Briggs & Townsend Ltd. from Johnson & Firth Brown (JFB) for a total cash consideration of £1.8m to be paid over one year.
Mr. Rex Chester, Chairman of Donald Macpherson Group plc, has been elected the new President of the Paintmakers Association of Great Britain.