A Personal History of Automotive Coatings Systems
I have been involved with automotive coatings for more than 40 years. When I started, car bodies were made of cold-rolled steel with little galvanized steel or plastic, primers mainly ... Read More…
A Look at 40 Plus Years of R&D
This issue of CoatingsTech includes an interesting article by Cynthia Challener on the current state of R&D in our industry. Reading it made me think about my experiences in R&D ... Read More…
Coatings Driving Improved Sustainability of Flexible Packaging
Flexible packaging offers many benefits, including lighter-weight packaging solutions for reduced cost and a lower carbon footprint. At the same time, multi-layer flexible packaging solutions today are not generally amenable ... Read More…
Novel Metal-free Catalysts for Epoxy Carboxy Coatings
A new class of metal-free catalysts has been developed that promotes the crosslinking reaction of epoxy functional polymers with carboxyl functional compounds and polymers. Particularly effective at much lower cure ... Read More…
Polyamine Curing Agents Meeting the Industry Need for Enhanced Productivity
In the challenging world of industrial, protective, and marine coatings, two-component (2K) epoxy systems are established as the benchmark technologies due to the combined offerings of excellent corrosion protection and compliance with ... Read More…