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The U.S. Court of Appeals rejected a legal challenge to the EPA’s national VOC rule on architectural and industrial-maintenance coatings — the so-called “AIM” rule — mounted by a group of coatings manufacturers.

The best chemistry for such clearcoats has proven to be a highly reactive polyurethane system, which is formulated as two components that are mixed together in precise proportions immediately before being applied.

In addition to technological and environmental advantages, thermosetting powder coatings also provide economic advantages.

For ease of this discussion, extruder processing will be discussed.

This article discusses the development of a high-performance, environmentally friendly glass coating system based on a hydroxy-functional polyurethane dispersion and an aqueous blocked polyisocyanate crosslinker.

The largest coatings event in Asia — the Asia Pacific Coatings Show 2000 — officially opened on Wednesday, May 24.

In industrial applications, the technical performance of the product is often the key competitive differentiator.

Some producers are banking on a decorative product coating system known as “Final Finish.”

In some respects, staying ahead for multinational paintmakers is not much different than it is for companies a fraction of their size.

Few questions are more important, or more difficult to answer, for an architectural paint company than: “How should we distribute our product?”