The Western Coatings Technology Center at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, will offer the annual winter Polymers and Coatings Short Course during the week of Feb. 4-8, 2019.
The results of a survey conducted at the 2018 American Coatings Conference involving topics such as the technologies and markets coatings companies find most important, drivers for R&D, hot topics and regulations.
In some cases, a company has a product and knows immediately where it should go. GVD Corp. was not one of those cases. The MIT spinoff had developed a new approach to making polymer coatings, which had substantial industry interest. The problem was finding the specific market.
Iranian researchers from Sharif University of Technology, in association with researchers from Laser and Optic Research Center, have produced a crack-free ceramic coating using nanotechnology.
According to a new study released by Cleveland-based market research firm The Freedonia Group Inc., U.S. demand for solvents is expected to increase at an annual pace of 1.5% through 2018 to 11 billion pounds.
