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An Eastern Michigan University professor has partnered with a Michigan-based company to help commercialize "green" protective coatings developed by his research team at the university.

According to a new report by Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA), niche and end-use applications will stimulate growth opportunities for the global epoxy resins market.

Global demand for coatings is forecast to rise 5.4 percent per year to 45.6 million metric tons in 2015.

International Paint LLC, an AkzoNobel company and a provider of high-performance protective coatings, linings, and fire protection products, has named Neil Plowman the company’s new Marine & Protective Coatings General Manager, Americas.

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

Predispersed nanoparticles can be very beneficial to the life cycle of coatings.

ASTM International Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications has approved a standard covering a test chamber used by transportation departments and similar agencies throughout the world to specify and test the dry speed of waterborne pavement marking paints at elevated relative humidity.