BASF Coatings has won Daimler AG’s Daimler Supplier Award 2011 in the category “Trucks and Buses, Exterior.”

For the eighth time in 10 years, BASF’s Coatings Division has received General Motors’ Supplier of the Year award. The company provides GM with a range of color solutions and development capabilities designed to help improve productivity and environmental performance.

BASF receives honor for the eighth time in 10 years

BASF’s Coatings Division has redesigned its website, basf-coatings.com, to offer a variety of information on the company’s paints and coatings, from scratch-resistant automotive clearcoats to intelligent solutions for wind energy.

BASF Automotive Refinish’s compact COLOR-MAXmobile2 color-matching tool features 531 color chips that automotive paint technicians can compare against painted surfaces simply by fanning out the swatch book.

First car painted with Onyx HD is Petty Signature Series Mustang

New paint reflects heat rays, designed for transparent organic solar cells in the roof of car

BASF and Volvo celebrate 30-year cathodic e-coat partnership in Sweden.

'Green Luxury," human symbiosis with technology are in

BASF Automotive Refinish has named Jeff Wildman as a regional manager.Wildman joined the company in 1991 as a sales representative and since has held a variety of sales and marketing roles within the company, including manager of operations for Automotive Refinish Technologies and bodyshopmall.com.

At BASF, we believe the industry will focus on new technologies, new innovations, and products and processes that enable the customer to be more efficient and ultimately more successful.By more efficient we mean ‘no coats’ and ‘partial coats’ with significantly less re-work for the end-user.

BASF Automotive Refinish (Southfield, Mich.) re-launched its ColorSource Premier program and shared annual objectives and strategic activities at its annual ColorSource Conference.

BASF has launched new basfpaintnews.com and carizzmacolor.com websites.

Antimicrobial coatings are starting to make an even bigger entry into U.S. homes. More consumer goods manufacturers are offering “germ resistant” surfaces on many household items such as refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and other appliances and fixtures. A report by Global Industry Analysts Inc. says the U.S. antimicrobial coatings market alone is expected to reach $1 billion by 2015.

BASF's Liquid Metal basecoat immerses the car in a radiant deep gloss, making it look as if it were made of chrome rather than painted.

BASF has developed two new additives said to further improve the application flexibility of its Onyx HD line of waterborne automotive refinish paints.

BASF’s has a new polychromatic paint for the coil coatings market.

All finishers want a high-quality line with high throughput. But a company's decisions will typically favor one or the other. Quaker Mfg. Inc. chose quality over quantity...