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New Products July 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 July 2025
ditor’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 […]
Low-Field (LF)-NMR Liquid Relaxation
Best Paper Award, 2025 CoatingsTech Conference A Useful Technique for QC and to Determine the Equivalency of Materials for Coatings Formulations By David Fairhurst, Colloid Consultants Ltd.; R. Sharma, […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Simple, Highly Effective ASTM Curing Test
By Cynthia A. Gosselin, Ph.D., The ChemQuest Group Assuming that paint chemistry, film thickness, and application techniques are matched to the intended service environment, the degree of cure is the […]
Reinvestigating the Link Between Lab Test Results and Real-World Exposure: A Study on Grain Cracking Performance of Architectural Paints
Xin Li, Keith Task, Shawn Overcash, Jack Johnson, and Nicholas Foley BASF Corp. USA Correlating paint film integrity in the lab with wood grain crack resistance in real-world exposure is a challenging task. In 2020, […]
Detecting the Mass of Pigment Particles: Towards a Universal Size Standard
By Jörg Wieder, Franz Friebel, femtoG AG, and Kingsley Reavell, Cambustion Ltd. We present a novel approach that introduces mass as a fundamental metric for characterizing the size and structure of pigments and […]
Global Trends, Part 1: NORTH AMERICA
By Crystal Morrison, Ph.D., and Eric Casebolt, The ChemQuest Group, Inc. Understanding the trajectory of the coatings industry is essential for business leaders and strategic marketers, but it’s equally important to assess […]
Beckers Group and Anodyne Chemistries Collaborate
Beckers Group announced its collaboration with Anodyne Chemistries to develop first-of-its-kind renewable chemicals, particularly Hexahydrophthalic Anhydride (HHPA.) Anodyne is pioneering a sustainable way to produce HHPA using CO₂ by engineering […]
Covestro Expands Coatings and Adhesives Lab in Shanghai
Materials manufacturer Covestro announced the completion of a major expansion of its laboratory for coating and adhesive formulations in Shanghai. Part of the company’s Asia-Pacific Innovation Center, the lab, which […]
Stahl Inaugurates Customer Center of Excellence in Mexico
Stahl has relocated and opened its enhanced Center of Excellence for Leather Finishing and Performance Coatings in León, Mexico. According to the company, the center —part of Stahl’s global network […]
Indorama Ventures Partners with PolySource
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, a global sustainable chemical company and producer of specialty co-polyesters, has entered into a strategic distribution agreement with PolySource, a distributor of high-performance polymer solutions. […]
RPM International Acquires Ready Seal
RPM International Inc. announced the acquisition of Ready Seal Inc. (Ready Seal), a Texas-based manufacturer of exterior wood stains, including its Goof-Proof™ stain-and-sealer-in-one, for its Rust-Oleum business in the Consumer […]
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