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Chemical compatibility database and guidance makes selecting the correct pump for each chemical or formulation a straightforward task while maintaining workplace safety.

A new category of blast media, superoxalloys, is proven to help powder coaters achieve economic and environmental sustainability objectives.

This restoration coating is helping a building resist exterior fading and degradation for at least 20 years.

Upscale, Mixed-Use Property Resolves Major Noise Issue with Acoustical Coating

Additives are used in small quantities and can have the highest per unit cost of coatings raw materials. They facilitate production, or improve certain properties of the wet coating or the final film. Learn about rheology modifiers and suspension agents in Part 1 of this four-part series.

A new difunctional water-based crosslinker is used to crosslink acid or carboxyl functional coatings, inks and adhesives to increase adhesion, physical and chemical properties.

This article discusses what VOCs are, where they come from, and why high-solids coatings are so good at reducing VOC emissions.

Specialized coatings have an important role to play in reducing our environmental impact – energy consumption and carbon emissions of manufacturing and operations processes can be reduced significantly.

Recent research conducted at Iowa State University has developed an innovative coating additive made from amphiphilic Janus particles that can alter the surface properties of a waterborne coating system.

Managing color can be challenging, but with a comprehensive digital color management system in place, it is possible to achieve accurate color quickly, sustainably and cost efficiently.