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AI enhances sustainable manufacturing in smart factories by optimizing processes, improving product design and ensuring compliance while reducing environmental impact.

UV coatings can deliver faster production speeds, reduce operation costs, and offer no VOC emissions, as evident in two customer case studies; one a sprinkler pipe manufacturer and the other a solar torque tube manufacturer.

In an interview with PCI, Giona Kilcher, Global Business Director, CASE, at Trinseo, delves into how chemical recycling, traditionally associated with plastics, is now being harnessed to make latex binders for coatings more environmentally friendly.

The objective of this collaboration was to showcase the performance of sustainable, soy-based coating materials in real-world formulations, comparing them to benchmarks derived from petroleum-based counterparts. Part II of this series focuses on soy-alkyd dispersion paint. 

Bio-degradable citrate esters have excellent toxicological and eco-toxicological profiles, and provide good versatility and compatibility with numerous polymers. Read how they compare to standard coalescing agents.

One of the key performance properties formulators use fluorocarbon surfactants for is early hot block resistance. To address this need in architectural coatings, a study of alternative technologies was conducted and revealed that modifying a specific phosphate ester could provide a straightforward solution.

Whether you are a specialty coatings company selling to an OEM, or a raw material company selling into a coatings company, you can use AI to deeply understand how your product impacts your customers’ performance so that you can recommend the correct product, charge based on value, and find a market niche with higher margins. Learn how to get started.

A bisphenol-free coating offers improved performance, sustainability, and seamless integration into existing food can manufacturing processes. 

The anti-corrosion coating was used to coat the internal lining of three tanks, protecting them against aggressive, acidic substances. The tanks play an important role in the process of turning large amounts of shellfish byproduct into the bio-polymer chitosan.

Being able to reduce the amount of petroleum-based solvents in a product and replace them with gentler bio-based material such as canola oil is a great option. Learn about new bio-based rust preventatives.