Axalta preps for the second annual HD Repair Forum
Toronto, Ontario – March 12, 2019 – In just a few short weeks, collision repair professionals, insurance parties and OEs from all across North America will be gathering together for the second annual Heavy-Duty Repair Forum. The HD Repair Forum will take place on April 2 to 3 at the Hilton in Fort Worth, Texas […]
Axalta’s new prefinish program
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — February 28, 2019 — Axalta has announced Unrivaled, a new building products prefinish program. Unrivaled is designed to deliver coating system solutions for factory application. The program includes Axalta’s top products, engineered to produce quality and performance. “Our program leverages our long history supplying market leading siding manufacturers. We look forward […]
Axalta’s Supplier of the Year awards
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario – February 25, 2019 – Axalta Coating Systems has announced its 2018 Supplier of the Year award winners. The recipients of the award were BYK Additives, Chang Chun Plastics, Eastman Chemical Company, Element Fleet Management, GEO Specialty Chemicals, Rhenus Group, Rianlon Corporation, and Wanhua Chemical Group. “Our success as a global […]
Axalta’s Colour of the Year
By CRM staff Peterborough, Ontario – Jan 15, 2018 —For the first time in five years, Axalta Automotive’s Colour of the Year, Sahara, will be available for vehicle customization at the manufacturing facilities, as well as in the aftermarket. The colour is a golden bronze tone that is said by the company to radiate warmth, […]
BASF and Axalta reveal the most popular car colours of 2018
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — January 9, 2019 — White remains the most popular colour for vehicles around the world – but black and grey are on the rise, two new studies from major auto paint manufacturers have revealed. About 38 percent of all vehicles on the road are painted white, reports by BASF and Axalta […]
Axalta and Plenham ink three year partnership deal
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — January 4, 2019 — Axalta is teaming up with Plenham Ltd., parent company of bodyshop and IBIS Worldwide brands. The agreement comes in the form of a three-year global partnership intended to help the global collision repair industry share ideas for business improvement, as well as drive better practices in […]
Axalta opens world’s largest coatings research centre
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — November 8, 2018 — Axalta has officially opened what it believes is the largest coatings research and development centre in the world, its Global Innovation Center located in the Navy Yard of Philadelphia. The 175,000-foot center offers specialty labs, as well as office space. To celebrate the grand opening, […]
Axalta announces new global refinish VP
By CRM Staff Toronto, Ontario — October 26, 2018 — Axalta has announced that sales and marketing director James Muse will serve as the company’s vice president of global refinish sales. Joining Axalta in 2015 as the national accounts and industry relations manager, he had previously served as the vice president of business development at […]
Axalta announces annual Brilliant Refinishers Program
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — October 15, 2018 — In what is now the second annual Brilliant Refinishers Program, Axalta has announced the North American distributors that have demonstrated outstanding and consistent year-after-year results with Axalta refinish products. The program celebrates up to fourteen regional distributors during a NASCAR race weekend this fall when Axalta is the […]
Axalta appoints new chief executive officer
By CRM staff Toronto, Ontario — October 10, 2018 — For the second time in four months, Axalta has hired a new chief executive officer. Robert Bryant, previously Axalta’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, will now also serve as the company’s top executive – a position left vacant by the resignation of Terrance Hahn, […]
