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Environmental regulations have led to the increasing popularity of energy-cured coatings and printing inks.

Wood flooring coatings provide substrate protection and maintain aesthetics for a number of years.

Now, 12 years and two revisions later, ISO quality and environmental management systems (QMS/EMS) are among the most important and widely adopted strategic initiatives in the coatings industry.

Environmental regulations have led to the increasing popularity of energy-cured coatings and printing inks.

Increasingly stringent environmental regulations cause the coatings industry to constantly work to reduce VOCs and lower energy consumption during high-tech coatings production.

Other than the changes being wrought by that powerful trio of industry forces known as consolidation, regulation and globalization, it’s business as usual in the industrial wood coatings segment.

Recent developments have shown that smectite minerals can be used to reduce the cost of TiO₂ by $15 or more per 100 gal of paint.

In response to the ongoing elimination of chromate- and lead-based pigments and the need to identify effective replacements, molybdate corrosion inhibitors are finding increased application in the coatings industry.

Bob Black is truly a coatings innovator.

With the large range of electronic test equipment currently on the market, users could understandably forget the simple, low-cost options that are available for the quality control of coating processes.