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DU PON T COATINGS & COLOR T." . T Strategic Direction: Protect, decorate and add functionality to a wide variety of surfaces and substrates by developing and providing ingredients, inks, coatings and color technologies. a Core Markets: Automotive; rCollision Repair; Paper; Industrial Coatings; Digital Printing; ' it'll Architectural Coatings; Plastics. lit* 2003 Revenue: $5.5 B lira ^tn?;lf:03 jm2eHmtotmam Shanghai Technical Service Center Gives Customers "One Stop" Convenience In recognition of the ever-growing importance of China as a market, DuPont Coatings & Color Technologies opened a new techni cal service center in Shanghai in 2003. The 194,000-square-foot facility houses product R&D labs and manufacturing and warehousing facilities. There's also space for sales and marketing and technical support personnel. The result is "one-stop" service for customers of DuPontTM Ti-Pure'1' titanium dioxide products lor coatings, plastic, paper and inks. Opening of the Shanghai Center coincided with the introduction of a new range of Ti-Pure"' slurry products -- pre-dispersed pigments in solution form, specially designed for the water-based emulsion paint market. The new products will be manufactured at the Shanghai site. New Curing Technology Powers Powder Coatings into Fresh Applications Powder coating has long provided durable finishes. But the need co bake ponder coatings at high temperatures meant they simply weren't practical for many products, such as architectural finishes, office furniture and bicycles. So DuPont Performance Coatings introduced a new powder painting process with a low curing temperature, opening up entire new markers. The process also allows a one-step application in a thick layer for improved efficiency, plus a high curing speed. Vjiillilt IPiffigr CollisionMD Streamlines Repairs y of Damaged Vehicles Debuting a new consulting offering, DuPont Performance Coatings takes its years of vehicle finishing expertise into the body repair business. CollisionMD uses web browser-based technologies to deliver a "start to finish" management system to handle the progression of collision-damaged vehicles through the repair process. Body shops, insurance companies and, ultimately, consumers will benefit from the greater efficiencies CollisionMD bungs to body repair and claims.- Shown above raking a laptop ; "test drive" of the CollisionMD experience arc (left to right) Nigel" ' M Glass, fleet & Insurance manager, Etirope/MEA, DuPont Performance . Coatings Rcfinish Systems; and David Jones, managing director, d Abbey Motors HH Limited. -d