Our October issue features the latest in powder coatings technology, pearlescent and iron oxide pigments, non-leaching reactive surfactants, and a focus on distributors.
The allnex high-reactive polyester resins give the powder coating industry the ability to formulate products for both indoor and outdoor applications with reduced curing times and/or lower curing temperatures.
With this powder coating technology, manufacturers can lower operational costs, increase end-product value and provide a mechanism for meaningful differentiation.
National specialty chemical distributors will continue to serve as one of the vehicles to identify and understand future needs of the coatings industry. The distributor assists the raw material manufacturer in product development, market promotion and sales success through its strong industry knowledge about the requirements of its customerās technical, compliance and supply chain departments.
OEMs that make parts or products from flat-rolled steel, aluminum and other metals are eliminating in-house lamination operations and outsourcing to experienced coil coaters instead
Polly Mertz's first scale-up of a new emulsion polymer had resulted in the contents boiling out of a 500-gallon reactor. What had gone wrong in the acrylic emulsion production batch?
Special clays have successfully demonstrated their use as rheological additives in paint and coatings systems. Sepiolite, attapulgite and smectites make up a particular silicate subgroup in the clay family. All of them, under the appropriate processing conditions, produce gel structures that are capable of behaving as shear thinning and thixotropic fluids.
The Hoover Color Division of CATHAY INDUSTRIES has worked in conjunction with iron oxide recovery to modify a naturally occurring process to produce a series of unique iron oxides pigments. Not only is the EnvironOxide range a good source of color, it is also a by-product of a successful reclamation project.
Maxemul reactive surfactants act as efficient emulsifiers providing colloidal stability and are chemically bonded to the polymer particles during free radical polymerization. The enhanced stability and mitigation of surfactant leaching during and after film forming significantly improve water resistance and barrier properties of the latex binder as a replacement of conventional surfactants.
Pearlescent pigments are a versatile group of effect pigments that are widely used in many coatings applications. Their color is a result of light interference based on their physical structure and composition.
TiO2 forecasts for 2018 looked strong worldwide. Then yellow flags signaled warnings by early summer. What happened? And what can we expect in the near future? CEOs of major TiO2 producers are still upbeat, because they see a strong industry and growing demand without significant capacity expansion.
Chemical distributor Brenntag has completed the acquisition of all shares of specialty chemicals distributor Alphamin S.A., headquartered in Wavre, Belgium, and its subsidiary, New Jersey-based Alphamin Inc.
Gulf Coast Chemical has entered into a distribution agreement with Unican for less-than-truckload and truckload quantities of metal packaging products for resale to customers.
The Krahn Chemie Group, a chemical distributor headquartered in Germany, has expanded the cooperation with Valtris Specialty Chemicals, Independence, Ohio.
IGM Resins, a manufacturer of UV curable materials, was honored with the 2017 3M Supplier of the Year Award in recognition of the company's contribution to improving 3M's competitiveness.
The global market for packaging coatings is expected to benefit from a growing packaging industry across the globe and new developments in packaging materials and product designs.
According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, global consumption of five of the leading coating and ink additives (rheology modifiers, dispersants, foam control, wetting, and slip and rub) was 2.53 billion pounds in 2017.
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.
RadTech, the nonprofit trade association for ultraviolet and electron beam technologies (UV+EB), announced a new conference in 2019 called BIG IDEAS for UV+EB Technology.
A leader of the paint industry in the Philippines cited the collaboration by government, industry and civil society players as a crucial element in the phase-out of lead-containing paints in the country.
The Hostatint A 100ST range features nine ready-to-use, highly transparent pigment dispersions that offer the entire color circle to solvent-based paint systems.
Easily dispersible in water, the polycarbonate diol Duranol W8011 improves the chemical and scratch resistance, adhesion, softness and self healing of coatings.
Uralac one shot matte (OSM) resins deliver better reproducibility and enable lower crosslinker levels and curing temperatures than current one shot matte alternatives.
LM (low-migration) acrylate monomers and oligomers are designed for the formulation of UV-curable inks and coatings dedicated to indirect food contact applications.