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Coatings can be found among the 800-year-old primitive dwellings at Mesa Verde.

New sustainable developments that come from ‘left field’

BYK USA’s expanded facility in Wallingford, CT, will more than double manufacturing capacity.

I don’t want to sound alarmist, but I was deeply disturbed by the recent pronouncements from the IPCC. This learned international organisation concluded that the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has grown to levels not seen for 3 million years, and that about half of cumulative anthropogenic CO2 emissions between 1750 and 2010 have occurred in the last 40 years.

This year, we see steady growth in the industry, as well as signs of possible movement among the world’s top manufacturers.

At the recent ACS show in Atlanta, attendees were asked to identify which supplier industry would be expected to deliver the most significant innovation step over the next three years. In declining order of popularity, attendees predicted developments in the fields of binders, production technology, additives and pigments.

The DSCT’s annual FOCUS conference drilled down into the topic of innovation.

Strong on technical advances but short on commercial traction. Energy supplies and efficiency are not the whole story!

This Guest Viewpoint by Publisher Donna Campbell reviews the annual WACKER press conference in Germany.

Back in October of last year, this blog discussed what is termed the Regenerative Circular Economy in which coated products are recycled at the end of their useful lives, either in whole or in part rather than being incinerated or landfilled.