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May-June Online Exclusive—Bridge Coatings: Protecting Our Infrastructure
Editor’s note: The following online exclusive examines the crucial role coatings play in protecting bridge and extending their service life. Following the article is a special Q&A with industry leaders ...

The Great Supply Chain Fiasco of 2021–2022: The Immediate Danger is Past, but What Lies Ahead?
"My concern, however, is that decision makers are too often caught in traditional, linear (and non-disruptive) thinking or [are] too absorbed by immediate concerns to think strategically about the forces ...

Expanded Applications and Enhanced Durability of Alkyd Coatings Using High-Performance Catalysts
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Unique Additives for High-Performance Industrial Protective Coatings
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Improving the Odds of Success: Using a Benign-by-Design Approach to Product Development
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Sustainable and High Performance: New Biobased Acrylic Dispersion to Prevent Knot Staining for Wood Coatings
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The Promise of Click Chemistry
Chemistry is once again taking a front seat in the quest to find ways to manufacture new, green, people-friendly, sustainable, multifunctional complex molecules for an array of practical implementations.

LANXESS Doubles Capacity for High-Purity Benzyl Alcohol in North America
LANXESS doubled its production capacity for benzyl alcohol at its site in Kalama, Wash., to support the growth of its customer base in the Americas. The capacity expansion is the ...

DKSH Performance Materials Moves to New Office in the Netherlands
DKSH Performance Materials moved to a new 360-square-meter sales office in Roermond, Netherlands, to serve the Benelux region.

Brenntag and ML Polyolefins Sign Cooperation Agreement
Brenntag announced a new agreement with ML Polyolefins to serve Scandinavia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. The cooperation will focus on applications like automotives and appliances, where there is a high ...

WACKER Completes Capacity Expansion for Dispersions and Powders in Nanjing
WACKER announced the completion of the capacity expansion for vinyl-acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions and VAE dispersible polymer powders at its Nanjing site in China.

Names in the News for May
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Names in the News for April
Editor's note: Updated April 18, 2023

42 Presentations Set for Eastern Coatings Show
The Eastern Coatings Federation recently released the schedule for the upcoming 2023 Eastern Coatings Show, set to take place from May 16 to 18 at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, ...

Coatings in Education for April
The following is a roundup of recent education news for students and professionals in the paint and coatings industry.