Waterborne Coatings

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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.

Associative thickeners play an important role in defining the rheology of waterborne latex paints.

It’s tough out there, especially for metals that aren’t protected from the elements.

VpCI®-386 is an organic water-based acrylic coating that provides superior multimetal corrosion protection in harsh, outdoor, unsheltered applications, incorporating Cortec's unique VpCI technology.

One of the challenges of formulating waterborne architectural coatings is achieving an acceptable balance of properties both during application and in the final film.

The challenges of substrate wetting and flow are especially problematic for formulators of water-based coatings.

Formulating wood coatings can be challenging, given the variety of resins available and the diverse applications in the industry.

Waterborne acrylic latexes can be prepared via batch, seeded, in situ seeded and continuous polymerization.