Recently, PCI met with the staff at -Emerald Performance Materials to discuss questions they are often asked about successful industry approaches for optimizing performance of low- and zero-VOC coatings, and to gain insight into the company’s latest raw material innovations in specialty resins, coalescents and additives. Information in this article includes contributions from William D. Arendt, Bruce Berglund, Julie Vaughn Biege, Walter Bustynowicz, John Erbeck, Garrett Gebhardt, Shamsi P. Gravel, Emily L. McBride, Thomas Penny, Jeffrey Tyrrell and Charles Zarnitz.
As industry needs have changed, the way we interact with customers and the marketplace has also greatly changed. Given the number and scope of material and formulation changes across the supply chain, we recognized we cannot innovate in a vacuum. We work even more closely today with customers to understand industry developments in order to provide competitive solutions that meet the market’s current and future needs, and we have expanded our R&D capabilities to do so.