As part of an extensive renovation of Germany's roughly 100-year-old Dresden Central Railway Station, 3M Dyneon provided the coating of Dyneon™ PTFE and Dyneon Fluoroplastics to the structure's glass fabric membranes.
The coatings and printing ink industries have been around for centuries and, as such, have developed a variety of methods to characterize their products.
Combining the rapid cure and excellent barrier properties of epoxy resins with the thermal and UV stability of silicon-based materials, formulators created high-performance coatings with excellent resistance to corrosion and chemical attack, as well as thermal and UV degradation, as early as 1959.
As time passed, and the need for greater productivity became prevalent in other markets, the UV-curable product line raised its hand for investigation.
Acrylic dispersions, consisting of particles with a controlled morphology and a self-crosslinking mechanism, are the current state-of-the art binders for VOC-compliant industrial coatings for wood, metal and plastics.
Cuprinol, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of wood-care products, is achieving consistently high quality control standards on its range of wood stains and water-based garden products following the installation of six high-performance, self-cleaning Eco Filters supplied by Russell Finex.
The use of acrylate monomer has become more common as it avoids the strong odor as well as the viscosity instability caused by the volatility of styrene.
Recently, increasingly stringent environmental regulations have required changes in how latex paints used in architectural applications are formulated.
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