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The coatings formulation process looks a lot like it did 30 years ago, with spreadsheets, notebooks, and time-consuming rounds of hands-on testing. By combining powerful data and decades of knowledge, digital coatings formulation platforms help to enhance the formulation process, streamline testing, improve the customer experience, and more, revolutionizing the industry.

The new line of coatings is designed to protect ship and vessel hulls in the harshest underwater marine environments, and is specially formulated for effective fouling prevention. 

This case study shows how one company offered thermal insulation as a solution to lower the surface temperature, prevent burns, and halt further corrosion of a tank at a lubricant plant. 

The company partnered with researchers at the University of Queensland to develop a polymer coating that is designed to fight the spread of bacteria and viruses.

Nycote Laboratories Corporation explains how it uses its well-qualified, proven coating technology as a platform to add new performance features that solve present and future problems for the aerospace industry and more. 

Taken collectively, the EPA’s recent actions serve as a roadmap for the risk management rules the agency will propose for existing chemicals in the future. For paint and coatings in particular, the proposed rules will have significant implications on industry operations due to the many conditions of use and applications of these chemicals that the EPA plans to regulate.

This article outlines how a robust materials data management strategy can significantly enhance your R&D activities, streamline workflows, and even revolutionize material discovery and production processes.

Commercialization of 3D printing, the increase in popularity of electric vehicles (EVs), and climate change-related challenges are highlighted as three major global trends affecting coatings industry growth and leading innovation efforts.

This study introduces the use of 1,3-Propanediol (1,3-PDO) in polyurethanes as a building block component of polyester and polyether polyols, and as a chain extender. The bio-based coatings prepared in this investigation provided useful physio-mechanical properties, chemical resistance, and water resistance compared to reference commercial petroleum-based two-component PUDs.

PCI Magazine Chief Editor, Kristin Johansson, interviewed Silvio Cimenti, Global Director of Branding and Marcom, on the recent launch of IM GROUP North America. Formed in Italy in 2021, IM GROUP is the holding brand of: Inkmaker, Rexson, Vale-tech, Swesa, Teko, Tecnopails and IEC+.