A live DIY consumer roll-out study along with a comprehensive benchmarking study of > 20 commercial paints gave insights into physical paint parameters that result in DIY consumer satisfaction.
PPG announced that the MGM National Harbor Hotel and Casino in Maryland is finished with PPG DURANAR coatings in five colors: Kuala White, Natural Silver and three versions of Platinum Mica.
The new University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital features 36 custom shades of Valspar coating, all arrayed in a beautiful interior design gradient.
In the 1960s a coating system formed by overcoating a molten hot-melt coating with a latex paint was conceived as an answer to a search by the wood siding industry for a primer to improve paint performance on its product. Performance testing, including weather exposure, had a positive outcome, but circumstances prevented commercialization. Thirty years later, the originator of the concept undertook a more thorough investigation. This article is a public a report on coating system composition and performance.
The introduction of new substrate wetting additives improves the spreading capacity of emulsion paints. Also the effectiveness in filling the crevices/pores of concrete substrates is highlighted by the results of accelerated efflorescence or alkali block testing.
Dura Industries, reputable color developer and applicator of liquid PVDF and powder coatings, teamed up with Valspar, frontrunner in the international coil and extrusion architectural coatings industry and part of Sherwin-Williams Extrusion Coatings, to create and coat the renowned façade of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. For this specific project, Dura Industries implemented a hand-painted five-coat system for the first time in the company’s history.
The former Spruce Goose hangar that was built by aircraft innovator Howard Hughes in 1945 in Playa Vista, California, is being renovated for use as office space. The project’s architects were looking for an infrared heat reflective coating and a dark color that will last on the building and not fade, and provide energy savings.
These micronized innovations are based on renewable raw materials in different particle size distributions that support customers’ ambitions to offer more sustainable solutions to industrial markets without compromising performance.
In early 2013, Grace Matthews published a white paper titled North American Architectural Coatings: The End Game? In it, we discussed the recent acceleration in architectural coatings mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and likened the "Big Four" - at the time Sherwin-Williams, PPG, Masco and Valspar - to the final table of a poker tournament.
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