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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…

  • Topic: Industrial & Protective Coatings, Polyurethanes, Resins
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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…

  • Topic: Additives, Equipment & Testing, Raw Materials
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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…

  • Topic: Industrial & Protective Coatings, Raw Materials
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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…

  • Topic: Additives, Business / Market Trends, Pigments, Raw Materials, Resins, Solvents
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Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP): 1—Introduction

Solubility of polymers in solvents is extremely important to the coatings industry. If the solvents in a formulation are not able to dissolve the polymer or polymers to be used, ... Read More…

  • Topic: Coatings Clinic, Equipment & Testing
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