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Purac has introduced its renewable PURALACT™ lactide as a monomer for creating sustainable coating resins.

Sealers are applied to concrete to protect the surface from water and salt damage.

The binders used in water-based paints are traditionally produced by emulsion polymerization.

A professor at Eastern Michigan University who developed sustainable alternatives within the polymer and coating industries was recognized for his innovations during the Michigan Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, held October 26 in Detroit.

Scottish scientists Dr. David Hepworth and Dr. Eric Whale invented Curran®, an innovative additive for coatings. Curran® was developed with a special, patented process by Scottish company CelluComp Ltd.

Over the past two decades, government regulations and customer preferences have led the coatings industry to reduce VOCs in coatings formulations.

History is replete with examples where technological advancement has always been at the cost of nature, and that at every step of the way nature has fought back to get its due.

Coating additives belong to a broad and diffuse category of key components in a coating formulation.

To comply with VOC regulations, coatings manufacturers have gradually moved away from conventional low-solids, solventborne systems to several emerging technologies, which include high-solids, UV, powder, waterborne and solvent-free systems.1-3

Grit blasting of metal surfaces, a routine surface preparation technique prior to painting, is expensive, labor-intensive, time-consuming, and generates a large amount of hazardous, powdery waste