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The applications of daylight fluorescent colorants are so diverse that an entire industry has developed to prepare and tailor these materials to be compatible with and to maximize their luminous performance across a range of product categories. Unlike conventional colorants, these materials are able to absorb shorter wavelengths of sunlight and then re-emit that light at longer wavelengths, producing a visual experience of color intensity above and beyond anything we expect to see from light.

Recently, considerable development work has been conducted to demonstrate the enhanced performance and improved economics associated with new and novel white pigment offerings. This article highlights a new white pigment that is showing great promise at reducing the amount of titanium dioxide needed to formulate cool roof coatings while enhancing performance, processability, and affordability. 

LANXESS Corporation has announced the retirement of President and Chief Executive Officer, Antonis Papadourakis. Frederique van Baarle, member of the Board of Management and Labor Direcor of LANXESS AG, assumed the role of President and CEO for the company’s Americas region on Oct. 1.

Assembled into photonic crystals, brush block co-polymers have demonstrated utility in creating coatings with ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared reflectivity, radar transparency, and the potential to reduce the carbon footprint of performance coatings by up to 50%. One company has set a course to launch a structural color co-polymer based on this unique technology.

A specialty chemicals and minerals supplier offers a case study to compare its novel architectural colorants to industry-standard colorants. Utilizing tests such as viscosity drop, blocking resistance, open time, and base compatibility, these colorants deliver superior performance, an extended shelf life, and offer global compliance, while showcasing their low-VOC and high-pigment-loading capabilities.

The Innovation Award, with which ALTANA recognizes outstanding research achievements on the part of its employees, was presented this year for the eleventh time.

Project specifiers and coatings contractors are demanding water-based coatings that keep outdoor air safer and nuisance-free.

Through a series of projects over the next two years, the expansion is anticipated to increase global production capacity 20-fold and position the company to better meet the sustainability, performance, and cost demands of colorant producers and paint retail stores.

In an interview with PCI, LANXESS discusses how environmental product declarations (EPDs) are helping to achieve low-emission product strategies along the value chain.