[3] Axalta develops and manufactures coatings for light and commercial vehicles, industrial, and refinish applications.

[4] Axalta traces its origins to the German firm Herberts Gmbh, which began in 1866 coating carriages before moving to automotive painting.

24 Hendrick Motorsports car, a relationship which dated back to Gordon's first NASCAR Cup Series race in 1992.

[6] In 1999 Herberts merged with DuPont Automotive Finishes,[7] a transport coating systems technology company that had been started in 1922 in Wilmington, Delaware, to form DPC.

In 2012, the private equity firm The Carlyle Group announced its plans to purchase and discontinue DPC.

[10] On January 21, 2015, Axalta and Chinese industrial coatings firm Shanghai Kinlita Chemical formed a partnership to operate in China.

[12] In July 2016, the firm acquired United Paint and Chemical Corp.'s automotive interior coatings business.

[17] Nippon Paint Holdings Co. attempted to buy the company in November 2017, but the deal failed to reach an agreement.

[18] In July 2021, Axalta acquired U-POL, a Northamptonshire based manufacturer and distributor of fillers, coatings and aerosols,[19] from Graphite Capital.

Cromax, a water-based product, and the industrial paints Nap-Gard, a powder coating for oil and gas pipeline companies, and Voltatex for electrical insulation, were introduced in the 1990s.

[4] Other products made by Axalta include Abcite, Alesta, AquaEC, Audurra, Centari, Challenger, Harmonized Coating Technologies, Imron, and Nason.

[35] Through its Spies Hecker brand, Axalta provides paint for Formula One team Mercedes AMG F1.