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While balancing cost and sustainability might sound challenging, digital color management makes it possible for paint and coatings professionals to help the environment while still favoring the bottom line. This is a key consideration for many in the industry who, now more than ever, are searching for innovative ways to streamline workflows and reduce waste while saving on costs.

Innospec is one of the largest suppliers of Sulfosuccin(am)ate surfactants, which are used in emulsion polymer (EP) synthesis, paints, over print varnishes (OPV), inks, adhesives, agrochemicals, and plastics.

A complex world requires colorful solutions! Join us for a free #webinar on September 8, 2021. Don’t miss Clariant’s experts and hear about our latest introductions for #coatings and inspiring new solutions.

Ancamine® 2739, 2712M and Ancamide® 2769 reduce your protective, tank/container, and marine coatings' VOC levels, protecting the environment, applicators and assets with the highest performance.

The coating technology discussed in this article is a 100%-waterborne, high-ratio zinc silicate. When used as a single-coat system – or when complemented with a topcoat for aesthetics – the product delivers superior and complete corrosion-prevention benefits that are unmatched when compared to other "IOZ" systems used in the marine environment.

This article examines the environmental benefits of long-life coatings, including a comparison study of the carbon footprint of a fluoropolymer powder coating versus a solvent-based coating.

Clariant has utilized its global network of chemists and product experts to drive the development of a better colorant solution for use in industrial coatings.

This study reveals the degradation mechanism of a typical acrylic melamine automotive clearcoat caused by bird droppings. It was found that natural bird droppings and pancreatin are able to catalyze the hydrolytic cleavage of etheric and esteric linkages of acrylic melamine clearcoats, leaving etched areas and local defects as well as a decreased appearance on the clearcoat surface.

Whether you're looking for additives, crosslinkers and catalysts, minerals and extenders, pigments, resins/intermediates, solvents, or more, Brenntag Coatings & Construction has you covered with a broad specialty product offering.

In shipping's ongoing efforts to survive and thrive in the global economy, and on the backdrop of societal and regulatory pressure to reduce maritime's impact on the environment, tackling biofouling head-on and mitigating the risks has never been so important.