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More companies are adding and/or expanding their portfolios with biobased waterborne alternatives that offer the formulator/end user another benefit without sacrificing performance.

 All safeguards intended to prevent dust explosions must be recognized, understood and maintained by operating forces. 

 The use of the pigment encapsulating acrylic binder in exterior applications can not only decrease the amount of TiO2 at the same hiding level, bringing possible cost reduction, but can also help to improve exterior durability such as dirt pick up resistance, tint retention and efflorescence resistance. 

This case history of a Chinese paint manufacturer shows how using an Integrated tinting system that included colorants, color formulas, dispensing and mixing equipment, software, technical support and equipment service, helped the company save time and money. 

Traditional two-pack PUR technology combined with surface-modified nanosilica particles results in increased scratch and abrasion resistance in transparent, high-gloss coatings for plastics.

Paint and coating manufacturer, Axalta, looks back at the history of automotive color trends.

LANXESS introduced a major step forward in Penniman Red production technology with a new optimized Penniman process that ensures high environmental compatibility.

Independent corrosion tests have shown this is a successful conductive polymer-based anti-corrosion coating technology and the first non-chromate coating that has out-performed hexavalent chromate coatings.

 Perhaps the most important emerging technology to reduce long-term energy consumption, especially in large plants building new mix rooms, has been the use of electric pumps. 

 The architectural design of a new amine epoxy hardener by molecular engineering has been shown to meet increasingly stringent market demands on legislation compliance, operator and environmental impact, and high productivity while showing excellent cost-performance balance of self-leveling epoxy systems.