Aquaflow nonionic synthetic associative thickeners for high-performance waterborne paints and coatings build rheology through self-association and interaction with other ingredients.

These suppliers share their perspectives on the current market, industry drivers, steps they take when developing new products and challenges that formulators face.

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., announced plans to invest approximately $89 million over the next three years to expand specialty chemical production at its manufacturing facility in Hopewell, VA.

Eckart promoted both solvent- and water-based technologies from Scott Bader Speciality Polymers Division.

Mixture design is a type of DOE that takes advantage of the fact that the proportions of the ingredients of a mixture must add up to 100% to reduce the number of experimental runs required to evaluate the design space.

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., announced plans to increase the price of its global coatings hydroxyethylcellulose.

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., recently received a Ringier 2013 Coatings Technology Innovation Award for its Natrosol^TM Performax paint thickening technology.