Hybrid Coating Technologies Inc (fka HCTI)

[sharpei]

These two companies are both partners w/Polymate, our research arm of the company.

April 24:

'Akzo to Consider PPG's Sweetened $29 Billion Takeover Offer

Akzo Nobel NV said it would consider PPG Industries Inc.’s new unsolicited 26.9 billion euros ($28.8 billion) takeover bid, which the U.S. rival extended with “one last invitation” for Europe’s largest coatings company to negotiate a deal.

Akzo Nobel will “carefully review and consider” the proposal, the Amsterdam-based company said in a statement Monday. PPG earlier offered Akzo shareholders cash and stock valued at 96.75 euros a share including a dividend that Akzo plans to pay, the Pittsburgh-based company said in a statement, adding it’s a 50 percent premium over the unaffected closing price March 8. PPG’s previous, sweetened bid valued Akzo Nobel at 90 euros a share with the dividend.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-24/ppg-sweetens-unsolicited-offer-for-akzo-nobel-to-28-8-billion