Bobbing for Goldfish
Over the last several months, I spent time helping startup technology companies craft value propositions that resonate with prospective investors and collaborators, and I came to realize that while startups ... Read More…
Industrial Wood Coatings: Numerous Applications with Diverse Needs
The industrial wood coatings segment of the paint and coatings industry comprises a wide range of coatings applied at the factory to a broad array of wood and wood composite ... Read More…
Enzymatic Polymerization for Engineered Polysaccharides in Coatings
Enzymatic polymerization is emerging as a scalable process to polymerize sucrose into engineered polysaccharides. Polymer architecture and material properties can be controlled selectively to provide the foundation for novel differentiated biomaterial ... Read More…
Balancing Performance of Slip/Mar Additives Using a High Throughput Approach
Additives formulating can be resource intensive and time consuming to paint manufacturers due to the plethora of ingredient combinations and interactions that affect performance properties. These challenges may inhibit the ... Read More…
The Demand for Coatings Raw Materials to 2022
Raw materials, in the form of individual chemical constituents that are incorporated into paints and coatings, represent an exceptionally diverse and vitally important sub-set of the overall specialty chemicals industry. ... Read More…