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Names in the News for April
The following industry professionals have recently received appointments or promotions. Hockmeyer Equipment Corporation has appointed Danny Thomas as president and chief operating officer (COO). Thomas’ career spans more than […]
New Products for April
Editor’s note: This column is a roundup of recent product releases from throughout the coatings and allied industries. To submit a product release for consideration, email publications@paint.org. Please note that […]
CHINACOAT Returns to Guangzhou
CHINACOAT 2024, which showcases new products and technologies in the global coatings industry, will be held December 3-5 in Area A at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in […]
Automotive Corrosion Symposium Seeks Poster Abstracts
The Automotive Corrosion Symposium is scheduled for April 11-12 in Detroit, MI. Although the deadline for speaker abstract submissions has passed, the symposium welcomes the submission of Poster Abstracts until […]
Coatings Xperience: Incorporation of Sustainability and Circular Economy Principles in Product Development
By Mike Jeffries, Covestro Background Is circular thinking new? When and why did linear thinking become more popular? To begin, let’s look at some history in mass production and consumerism to […]
Improved Performance in a Waterborne All-Acrylic Latex Produced without PFAS
Eliminating PFAS, while maintaining coating performance, requires unique binder chemistry that is both flexible and durable. By Mary C. Chervenak, Donovan Lujan, and Jeffrey Arendt Arkema Inc. Although exterior architectural coatings improve the appearance […]
Architectural Coatings as a Tool for Combating Urban Heat Islands
By Audrey McGarrell and Stacey Weister Cool Roof Rating Council Heat is the leading weather-related cause of human mortality, surpassing hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, and blizzards. The impacts of heat are intensified by the urban […]
Going … Going … Gone: Obsolescence in the Coatings World
By Cynthia A. Gosselin, Ph.D. The ChemQuest Group Over the past two or three decades, there has been a well-publicized amount of consolidation within the paint and coatings industry that has […]
BREAKING THE ICE: The Innovative World of Icephobic Coatings
By Cynthia A. Gosselin, Ph.D., The ChemQuest Group Anyone who has had the pleasure of scraping ice off a car windshield, looking nervously at beautiful but deadly ice spears hanging from […]
Janus Particles: A New Additive for Improving Waterborne Hydrophobic Coatings Through Self-Stratification
By Shan Jiang, Yifan Li, and Rebecca Mort Introduction The coatings industry has undergone significant transformations in recent years due to the replacement of organic solvent-based coatings by waterborne emulsion latex polymer coatings. […]
Advantages of Siloxane Surface Additives in Low-VOC Architectural Coatings
By Ingrid K. Meier, Kersten M. Forsthoefel, and Tony Hazim Evonik Corporation, USA In the higher pigment volume concentration (PVC) systems, the use of siloxane additives will be shown to improve stain-resistance and scuff-resistance […]
Hydrophobization of Nanocrystalline and Microfibrillated Cellulose Using Covalent Grafting of Plant Oil-Based Copolymers
Editor’s note: This article is based on the work titled “Nanocellulose Hydrophobization,” which garnered the first place Student Poster Award at the 2023 CoatingsTech Conference. CoatingsTech welcomes student submissions year-round. […]
Azelis Expands CASE Application Lab in Wisconsin
Azelis has completed upgrades and expansion of its Wisconsin facility to create another industry leading applications lab for customers and principals in the Americas. The Wisconsin CASE application lab will […]
Lubrizol Opens New Global Capability Center in India
The Lubrizol Corporation has opened a new Global Capability Center (GCC) in Pune, India, as a hub to accelerate its growth in the region and enable closer collaboration for its […]
Schenck Process Becomes Qlar
The German-headquartered Schenck Process will rebrand as Qlar on May 13. The company will continue to serve all existing target industries, including chemicals, high-performance materials, cement, steel, infrastructure, transport, and […]
Orion S.A. Breaks Ground in Texas
Orion S.A. announced that it has broken ground on a plant in Texas that will be the only facility in the United States producing acetylene-based conductive additives for lithium-ion batteries […]
AkzoNobel Invests in Dutch Research Labs
AkzoNobel is building two new research labs at its Sassenheim site in the Netherlands. Work is about to start on building a technology center for Powder Coatings, while a newly […]
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