Archroma, a specialty chemicals maker, has announced that its novel halogen-free flame-retardant powder coating additive, Pekoflam HFC, has been o...

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Axalta Coating Systems, a manufacturer of liquid and powder coatings, was named a “Supplier of the Year” by General Motors (GM) at its...

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  The 2015 Custom Coaters Forum—held at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, this past March 5-6, is the world’s only educational and ne...

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The Powder Coating Institute’s mission is to serve its members by promoting and communicating the benefits of powder coating technology. To ca...

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Throughout my career, delivering the message of powder coating technology has been a passion for me. My version of “Powder Coating 101&rdquo...

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  Dear Fellow PCI® Members, We’ve spent the last two years on “Return to Growth” and “Shaping the Future Together...

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This week marks the start of regular season baseball in the United States, an event I look forward to with anticipation every year. Somehow, the beginning of baseball seems to return life back to a normal, predicable cadence. Like the innings of a long game, we have seen a steady rise in nonfarm payrolls over the past year. This month, however, the labor market threw a curveball and upset the reliable recent progress in the labor market. 

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The trade journal Tire Business (3/31, Moore) reports that despite the looming expiration in May of the “$10.8 billion stopgap transportation funding bill” that President Obama enacted last summer, Congress has yet to authorize a multiyear transportation funding plan. 

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Be on the lookout for your next edition of Powder Coated Tough, which will land in your mailboxes and e-mailboxes soon! 

Here is what you will find in our feature stories:

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As we have seen in past weeks, economic data continue to reflect dampened activity in the early months of 2015 as a result of a number of significant headwinds. These challenges range from weak economic growth abroad, to a significantly strengthened U.S. dollar, to the sharp drop in crude oil prices. Weather and the West Coast ports slowdown have also been relevant factors in some of the softness that we have seen in the reports released since December. 

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