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In this article special emphasis is given to PVD technology and its application for polymeric materials in the automotive and home appliance industries, highlighting cost reduction and improved quality around surface modification of parts.

UV-cure cationic coatings present viable and attractive options to OEMs, polymer coaters, extruders, contract coaters and/or thermoformers to improve functional and/or physical properties for formed polymer film/sheet as well as an effective delivery transport mechanism for new pathogen inhibition and biocidal efficacy technologies.

New amphiphilic silicon epoxy hybrid binders were developed for biocide-free foul-release coatings.

Pearlescent pigments are a versatile group of effect pigments that are widely used in many coatings applications. Their color is a result of light interference based on their physical structure and composition.

This study reviewed analysis of several formulations based on an FEVE emulsion and an FEVE dispersion.

Through a new recycling process, this company is able to serve the markets with a final recycled product that saved many important ingredients from land burial or fuel blending.

A ranking of the top 10 global and top 25 North American coating manufacturers. The ranking is based on 2017 coatings sales. Sales of other noncoating products are not included.

This article demonstrates the equivalence of a simple calculation for crosslink density to more sophisticated methods developed by others. By virtue of the method's simplicity it has been easily extended to more complicated UV-curing systems and serves to easily determine the effects of prepolymer architecture on the crosslink density in the cured film.

From the perspective of TiPMC Solutions, ensuring reliable supplies of high-quality TiO2 and the feedstocks required to produce it will mean that coatings and other downstream customers will need to share value with the TiO2 producers, and their feedstock suppliers.