December is our annual Buyers’ Guide, with detailed information and contact details for suppliers and distributors in the coatings industry. The issue also contains a market report on China’s anti-corrosive coatings market, and an index of articles that ran in 2014.
The Chinese anti-corrosion coating market is likely to continue experiencing slow growth over the next few years as the shipbuilding industry continues to underperform.
The event brought in almost 400 attendees and an impressive group of speakers that included suppliers, professors, manufacturers and association members.
Rheology is the science of the flow and deformation behavior of all kinds of materials, and a new knowledge and information platform “World of Rheology” by Anton Paar is exclusively focused on this topic.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is launching a national dialogue with stakeholders on ways to prevent work-related illness caused by exposure to hazardous substances.
PPG Industries and Henan Billions Chemical Co. Ltd. held a ceremony to mark the completion of Henan Billions’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) manufacturing and research facility in the Henan Province of China.
Daylight fluorescent pigment manufacturer Brilliant Group Inc. announced the opening of its new 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Richmond, CA.
A proposed new standard, ASTM WK 46877, Test Method for Pigment Loss on Ignition, will provide definitive instructions for conducting the common loss on ignition test.
Argex Titanium Inc., an emerging producer of high-grade titanium dioxide (TiO2) used in paint, plastic, paper, cosmetics and other applications, has won the ICIS 2014 Award for Best Innovation by Small or Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) in recognition of its novel method of producing TiO2 pigment.
Michelman celebrated the grand opening of its new Advanced Materials Collaboration Center (AMCC) on October 2, 2014, at the company’s global headquarters in Cincinnati.
BASF India Limited inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India. With a project cost of approximately €150 million, the site represents BASF’s single-largest investment in India.
Eric Houze, Research Fellow at Axalta Coating Systems, and Bavand Keshavarz, a Ph.D. candidate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), presented the results of a joint research program on new rheological measurement technologies that can be applied to sprayable paints.
Polycin® XP 100 LV and Polycin XP 200 LV are 100% solids castor oil-based polyols developed as cost-effective reactive diluents in solventborne acrylic and polyester systems to lower VOCs and increase solids.
SiVance® C1008 curative significantly improves the durable flexibility of epoxy polysiloxane protective topcoats in marine and infrastructure applications without sacrificing weatherability.
VORASPEC™ 58 toughened epoxy binder is a high-performance reactive epoxy toughener for epoxy systems used in industrial and infrastructure applications, especially in harsh environments.
