Automotive customization and energy-curable technology are an excellent complimentary pair. On top of its fast cure, energy curing offers excellent chemical resistance that can pass many of the automotive crème standards and can also be tailored to have a wide variety of properties.
The near-term outlook for participants in the industrial coatings industry remains bright. On top of broad economic tailwinds such as low interest rates, cash-rich participants and an active M&A market, several industry-specific factors are providing further lift.
Using one hundred percent-reactive methylene malonate monomers, difunctionals, multifunctionals and prepolymers, manufacturers of paints, coatings and other products can dial in a wide range of properties to produce a variety of high-performing polymer products that cure rapidly at low or ambient temperatures.
Greenkote, a provider of advanced anti-corrosion metal coatings, announced it is working with Scott Bader, a global chemical company that manufactures, sells and distributes a wide range of synthetic resins, polymers and structural adhesives.
BASF and Landa Labs announced a strategic long-term partnership in which BASF will employ Landa’s nano-pigment technology in a new portfolio of easy dispersible ultra-high transparency pigments marketed under the Colors & Effects brand.
On April 3, BASF kicked off its third annual North American science competition, which focuses on creating a superior coating finish on carbon fiber composites.
Specialty chemicals company Clariant suggests a sea of underwater-inspired shades to bring more color to our roads in 2019 in its new global Automotive Trendbook.
