Axalta Coating Systems
| Axalta Coating Systems | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Ltd. |
| founding | 1866 |
| Seat | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States |
| management | Robert Bryant |
| Number of employees | 12,650 |
| sales | $ 4.8 billion |
| Branch | Car paints |
| Website | http://www.axaltacs.com/ |
| Status: 2017 | |
Axalta Coating Systems is one of the world's largest manufacturers of automotive OEM coatings , headquartered in Philadelphia , USA .
The company in 2017 had about 12,500 employees and generated sales of 4.8 billion US dollars .
The German headquarters are in Wuppertal and employ around 2500 people at both locations. The first work is on Christbusch in Unterbarmen . The second plant is located between Märkische Strasse in Wichlinghausen-Nord and south of Hatzfelder Strasse in Flanhard in Hatzfeld and covers an area of around 270 thousand m 2 . The seat of Switzerland is in Basel .
The company has offices in South America, Asia, Europe and Africa and does business in 130 countries with more than 100 thousand customers. The company has 50 manufacturing facilities, 4 global technology centers, over 30 laboratories and 47 customers, training centers and more than 100 registered patents .
history
The Herberts GmbH company was founded in Unterbarmen by the German chemist Otto Louis Herberts in 1866 and specialized in the manufacture of Standox lacquer products. The Spies Hecker paint company was also founded in the 1880s. At the turn of the century, permanent paints and nitrocellulose paints were also produced. A paint company founded by Kurt Herberts' grandson merged with Herberts in 1924 and the grandson later took over the management. In the 1920s, the US company DuPont de Nemours commissioned Spies Hecker in Germany to manufacture car paint. In the 1940s, pigment dispersion was improved, refinish paint was developed and a color measuring device was marketed. In the 1950s, the first Latin American plant was founded in Tlalneplanta , Mexico , and the first thermoplastic acrylic coatings were produced. In the 1960s, among other things, powder coatings for pipelines were produced, in the 1970s polyurethane coatings and in the 1980s insulating topcoats. In the 1990s, DuPont took over Herbert's paint business and the first spectrophotometer was introduced. Electrical sheet enamel was also introduced for electrical steel coatings. In the 2000s, plants were established in China and India in order to open up the Asian market.
On August 30, 2012, DuPont de Nemours announced that it had entered into an agreement with the Carlyle Group to sell DuPont Performance Coatings (DPC) for $ 4.9 billion and merged with Axalta. On February 1, 2013, Axalta finally became an independent company.
A water-based paint production facility was built in Shanghai and a pilot reactor was built at the Coatings Technology Center (CTC) in Wilmington , Delaware . In addition, the corporate headquarters was relocated to Philadelphia and a new headquarters were created in Glen Mills in Pennsylvania .
Axalta was first traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE AXTA) on November 12, 2014 . In 2015, Axalta entered into a joint venture in China for the Shanghai region. In 2016, Axalta Geeraets , a Dutch distributor of Cromax products, took over the rigid thermoplastics division of United Paint and Chemicals for interior coatings, the Malaysian refinish paint manufacturer High Performance Coating and the American coil coating manufacturer Dura Coat Products .
Axalta Racing
Axalta is a sponsor of several motorsport competitions such as Hendrick Motorsports and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series ( Alex Bowman and William Byron ) and sports cars such as the Chevrolet Camaro . In 2014, Jeff Gordon won three times at the 2016 Brickyard 400 with an Axalta-sponsored car . Axalta also sponsored Regan Smith at the Phoenix International Raceway . Axalta is responsible for the auto paint jobs for several NASCAR teams at the Gander Outdoors Truck Series , JR Motorsports, Kyle Busch Motorsports , Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing , IndyCar Series and Stewart-Haas Racing events .
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Individual evidence
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- ↑ Axalta Coating Systems: Axalta locations in Wuppertal. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Axalta opens Europe, Middle East and Africa management headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. November 17, 2017, accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ^ Axalta - appoint Dries Van den Burgh as Cromax brand manager for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ^ Vincentz Network GmbH & Co KG: Axalta celebrates 150 years in the coatings industry. Retrieved January 2, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ Overview. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ^ History. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ↑ 2017 at 4: 24p ET: Axalta expands partnership with JR Motorsports, William Byron. March 1, 2017, Retrieved January 2, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Driver Jeff Gordon's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series wins - Racing-Reference.info. Accessed January 2, 2020 .
- ↑ JR Motorsports: JR Motorsports and Axalta Teaming Up for Phoenix Race. Retrieved January 2, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Axalta Racing: The Cars. February 15, 2015, accessed January 2, 2020 .