Car parks and road tunnels are two environments where air pollution significantly affects the users of these infrastructures as well as the people working there.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology have spent nine years developing new environmentally friendly and effective antifouling paints through a joint research program called Marine Paint.

China has been the largest producer (10 million tons in 2011) and consumer of coatings since 2009, surpassing the United States.

Tennant Company, a world leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing solutions that help create a cleaner, safer, healthier world, announces the launch of the floor care industry’s first known sustainable urethane floor coatings that are 50 percent soy plant-based and specifically designed for manufacturing, industrial and warehousing facilities.

Some of the most remarkable new coatings, like color-changing and smog-eating coatings, are applied to metal using the highly advanced continuous coil coating process.

The American Coatings Show and Conference was held May 7-10 at the Indianapolis Convention Center. With 427 exhibitors and more than 7,500 overall participants from 69 countries, this year’s ACS broke all of its previous records for visitors, exhibitors and footprint.

Coil-coated aluminum was chosen to clad the first world-class soccer stadium in the United States: LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas City, KS.

Two recurring issues in the coatings industry that owners, applicators and inspectors struggle with is how to accurately determine whether amine blush is present on epoxy coatings, and the ability to differentiate an amine blush from an amine bloom.

Wollastonite (calcium metasilicate) is growing in popularity as a versatile additive in coatings to reduce cost and improve performance.

Self-healing polymers are a class of smart materials that have the capability of autonomically repairing themselves after damage, without the need for detection or repair by manual intervention.