Flat roofs face aging and weathering challenges from solar radiation, moisture and pollutants. This study explores polymer dispersions' impact on elastomeric roof coatings' durability, flexibility and chalking resistance.
Michelman, a developer of water-based functional coatings, surface modifiers and polymers, has formed a new Engineered Wood business unit and has made four personnel changes to better align its resources with customer needs.
OMNOVA Solutions’ Specialty Chemicals business announced a price increase of up to $0.08 per dry pound for all styrene butadiene emulsion polymers produced in the United States and up to $0.10 per wet pound for all acrylic and styrene acrylic emulsion polymers.
In Part 1 of this article series,1 we discussed a new class of reactive surfactants, both nonionic and anionic, for use in both conventional aqueous emulsion polymers and in UV-curable coatings that contain two polymerizable moieties.
