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The PCI Blog is written by our team of editors, as well as industry contributors, and includes thought provoking opinions, trends, and essential paint and coatings industry information.

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Art and Heritage Are Key to Creating Strong Cities That People Want to Live In

Hester Alberdingk Thijm
January 15, 2016
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By the end of the decade, as many as 100 million Chinese people will migrate from rural areas to live in cities.


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The Flexibility to Manage a Mix of Energy Sources is the Key to Navigating These Exciting Clean-Energy Times

Anders Österlund
November 20, 2015
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Analysis presented during the recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance annual summit in New York offered more evidence that the tide is slowly turning against fossil fuels.


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Time for the Use of Lead Compounds to Come to an End in all Paints

Julian E. Hunter
November 10, 2015
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The negative health effects from exposure to lead are well known, the most severe being lifelong irreversible effects on children’s brains, yet in some parts of the world lead compounds are still added to paints as coloring pigments and drying agents.


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Why Reducing Coating Costs Isn’t Necessarily a Winning Strategy

Mike Reed
October 15, 2015
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We often advise that buying coatings according to a low cost-per-unit cost isn’t a smart approach. Every OEM wants to reduce cost.


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Technology Will Make our Cities Smarter, But Without the Human Touch We Won’t Want to Live in Them

Johan Widheden - AkzoNobel
August 10, 2015
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The passing of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew earlier this year triggered a nationwide outpouring of grief and tributes from leaders from across the world.


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Intumescent Coating vs. Cementitious Coating

Mike Reed
July 8, 2015
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Passive fire protection tends to fall into one of the following three categories: dense concrete, lightweight cementitious and intumescent coating.


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Antimicrobial Coatings: More Markets, More Intelligence

Lawrence Gasman
June 9, 2015
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The market for antimicrobial coatings is creating opportunities because of (1) the growing need for antimicrobials in traditional healthcare/medical markets and (2) the emergence of entirely new markets for antimicrobials.


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An Open Letter from Mike Reed to Independent Sales Reps

Mike Reed
April 1, 2015
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Independent coatings sales reps are becoming something of a dying breed in industrial coatings these days.


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