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Names in the News: October 2025
Editor’s note: The following industry professionals have recently received promotions or appointments. To submit your company’s personnel news for possible publication in CoatingsTech, email publications@paint.org with “Names in the News” in the […]
New Products October 2025
Editor’s note: This column is a roundup of recent product releases from the coatings and allied industries. To submit a product release for consideration, email publications@paint.org. Please note that all submissions […]
Names in the News: September 2025
Editor’s note: The following industry professionals have recently received promotions or appointments. To submit your company’s personnel news for possible publication in CoatingsTech, email publications@paint.org with “Names in the News” in the […]
New Products: September 2025
Editor’s note: This column is a roundup of recent product releases from the coatings and allied industries. To submit a product release for consideration, email publications@paint.org. Please note that all submissions […]
Colorant Effects on Solar Reflectivity and Rheology of Exterior Architectural Coatings
By Ray Fernando, Olivia Everitt, and Caleb Hall California Polytechnic State University The main objective of this study is to generate formulating knowledge that can be applied for selecting appropriate […]
Methods to Determine Open Time of Architectural Coatings
By Jennifer Mills, John Rabasco, Sunny Wang, Wesley Rauenzahn, and Scott Purtell The Dow Chemical Company Introduction In this article, we introduce a new applied method, brush workability, for determining […]
Salt Spray Testing: Dinosaur or Foundational Benchmark?
By Cynthia A. Gosselin, Ph.D., The ChemQuest Group First published in 1939, one of the oldest specifications in the Committee D01 arsenal is ASTM B117 Standard Practice for Operating Salt […]
The State of the U.S. Paint and Coatings Industry: Geopolitics, Supply Chains, and Strategy
By George R. Pilcher, The ChemQuest Group, Inc. We all lived through the Great Supply Chain Crisis of 2022, and most of us lived to tell about it. While we would […]
Advances in One-component PVDF-acrylic Hybrid Dispersion and Its Applications
By Wei Wang, Diane Vaessen, Brian Peterson, and Abby Miller, Arkema, Inc. For many years, aqueous hybrid dispersions of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and acrylic resins have been formulated into waterborne topcoats because of their […]
Development of Hygienic Paint for Enabling the EPA Residual Efficacy Requirement
By Chun Liu, Kathryn Neely, Leon Estell, Nicole Wise, Lehong Jin, Kevin Janak, Arxada Over the past couple years, hygienic paints and coatings have gained significant attention due to their […]
Global Trends, Part 2: EUROPE & ASIA
By Philip Marsh and Wayne Daniell, Ph.D., The ChemQuest Group, Inc. Megatrends are wide-reaching, critical forces that shape our society and long-term economic and technological landscape, from which the paint and coatings industry […]
2025 CoatingsTech Conference Review
Coatings and Technologies For a Resilient Future: Technical Highlights from the 2025 CoatingsTech Conference By Charles Hegedus, Ph.D. The American Coatings Association’s 2025 CoatingsTech Conference took place April 28-30 at the […]
BASF and Carlyle Reach Agreement on Coatings Business
BASF has entered into a binding agreement to divest its automotive OEM coatings, refinish coatings, and surface treatment businesses – collectively known as BASF Coatings – to funds managed by […]
Sherwin-Williams Completes Acquisition of Suvinil
The Sherwin-Williams Company has completed the acquisition of BASF’s Brazilian architectural paints business Suvinil following the announcement of a definitive agreement in February of this year and subsequent customary regulatory […]
BASF Expands Production Capacity in Türkiye
BASF has started a new production line dedicated to dispersions for architectural coatings and construction materials at its facility in Dilovası, Türkiye. The expansion has significantly increased production capacity, allowing […]
AkzoNobel Becomes Exclusive Supplier for Solar Absorbing Wall Technology
AkzoNobel has become exclusive paint supplier to the Calosol heat-retaining façade, a coating which can warm up or cool down a building—and a technology it helped to create. According to […]
Solera Announces Partnership with PPG
Solera announced a strategic partnership with PPG to integrate PPG’s premium automotive refinish coatings—including NEXA AUTOCOLOR® and MAXMEYER® brands—into Solera’s Sustainable Estimatics platform. The collaboration will reportedly enable PPG customers […]
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