The AzkoNobel plant in Houston at 6001 Antoine Drive was originally built in the late 1960s as an annex to Matcote Co. Inc., a Houston-based protective coatings company which had a small facility at 5810 North Houston Rosslyn Road, which soon moved to this location (it is unknown when they closed the North Houston Rosslyn Road facility) and expanded again in the early 1970s.
A 1979 article goes a bit more into detail what Matcote did, which was not make paint but rather protective coatings for industrial use. In 1980, Matcote was purchased by UK-based Courtaulds d/b/a International Paint, but expanded the facility, adding another warehouse in 1982 and in 1985 opening a powder coating facility (they also expanded the facility's production after the closure of an International Paint facility in New Orleans in 1986). During this time the Matcote name disappeared and was replaced with the Courtaulds Coatings name through the 1990s (following a reorganization at Courtaulds that spun off its textile business). In 1998, Courtaulds merged with Dutch-based AkzoNobel and the plant reverted to the International Paint name again, though the plant has been branded as AkzoNobel since at least 2007.
The property also incorporates 5903 Antoine Drive—a former site of Monterey House (later Monterey's Tex-Mex Cafe) from 1981 to 1994 and ultimately torn down for additional parking.
This was originally part of "Antoine Drive in Houston".
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