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The coating has several features that lengthen the life of a roof, including its superior resistance to fading from ultraviolet radiation and minimizing the absorption of solar energy. 

Due to the worldwide price increase of raw materials, pumps have become more expensive in the past two years. Data shows that the energy efficiency of a pump is more important than the purchase price. 

Why are UV-curable coatings gaining traction worldwide? Given their ability to facilitate higher productivity and line speeds, UV-curable coatings support space, time, and energy savings.

How does the right paint enable a ship to use less fuel? This article discusses choosing the right marine coating and the corresponding environmental considerations. 

The new resins have a renewable carbon content, can be formulated and used without hazardous ingredients found in most competitive products, and were developed to have efficient crosslinking with environmentally compliant carbodiimide-type crosslinkers.

This exclusive covers a contract coating company's search for a sustainable powder coating solution that can also be applied to sensitive substrates — materials that are traditionally liquid coated. 

Dunn-Edwards discovered how to optimize its eco-efficient paint-manufacturing operation by upgrading to AODD pumps, resulting in reduced downtime and an optimized paint-manufacturing operation.

This article makes the case for a single coating layer system to replace two-coat systems for concrete coatings, claiming superior hardness and abrasion resistance as well as comparable adhesion to wet or dry concrete and equivalent chemical resistance.

The technologies discussed in this article promote significant efficiency gains, production time and cost reductions, agglomerate prevention, more efficient raw material utilization additive savings, biocide reduction, and simplified cleaning, among other benefits.

This month’s Formulating with Mike column covers the history and evolution of solvent-based alkyds.