As awareness of sustainability and green issues continues to affect specification choices the world over, more developments are turning to terrazzo flooring as the solution.
History has been made at Westminster Abbey in London with the first major addition to the famous church since 1745 - and AkzoNobel has supplied products for the prestigious project.
Beckers' BeckryFluor and BeckryFlon, which were used to give the Novotel Hotel its unique hue-changing color and the protective topcoat, provide a plethora of benefits when applied to architectural surfaces.
Maxemul reactive surfactants act as efficient emulsifiers providing colloidal stability and are chemically bonded to the polymer particles during free radical polymerization. The enhanced stability and mitigation of surfactant leaching during and after film forming significantly improve water resistance and barrier properties of the latex binder as a replacement of conventional surfactants.
This two-part article has focused on the four interdependent aspects of a wood finish: the products, execution, environmental regulations and quality control.
This article is a comparison study using an accelerated weathering method to test different wood types pretreated with and without Eversorb SB in different co-solvents.
As demonstrated by the real-world exposures presented in this article, use of a primer is very beneficial over even the most challenging substrates. In some cases, the lifetime of the topcoat can be extended by over three years when a primer is used.
The 262-foot Limmat Tower is regarded as the centerpiece of one of Dietikon, Switzerland's newer districts, Limmatfeld. And its coated with a coating system from Beckers.
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