Polyaspartics offer specifiers, contractors and facility owners adjustable cure times for faster return to service, thick, high-build finishes, ultralow VOCs and low-odor systems that are not greatly impacted by ambient temperature.
In order to affect true change, we must develop products that touch on several of the change drivers, including regulatory issues, total cost of painting and performance
ED pigments offer paint manufacturers best-in-class performance in both waterborne and solventborne applications while reducing production time, saving money and decreasing energy consumption.
This article discusses utilizing natural oil metathesis to create novel renewable building blocks that are beginning to reshape many chemical markets, including the coatings industry.
As more Americans rent and housing demographics shift to favor the contractor market for paints and coatings, incorporating additives, specifically rheology modifiers, into a formulation can help meet desired performance.
As with all effect pigments, the use of polychromatic pigments requires an intensive examination of illumination and observation geometries, if useful and interesting color creations are to be produced.
It is imperative for coatings manufacturers to set an example for the entire industry and produce more sustainable products and technologies that address the many problems facing our earth.
CPCA seeks to play an instrumental role in helping its members find ways to attract qualified people to the coatings industry and effectively compete in a shrinking workforce.
The ACOMP technique has not only proven to be able to fully monitor research and industrial polymerization processes but has also proven the capability to automatically control polymerization reactions in real time to deliver a polymer that is ‘born characterized’.
Throughout this article we aim to dispel some myths surrounding holidays and pinholes, while also exploring holiday detection and the solutions used to fix these defects.
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