durability-weathering
Analytical Series: Principles of Accelerated Weathering: Evaluations of Coatings
Wood Coatings
Recent Trends in Wood Furniture Coatings
The global market for coatings (solventborne, water-based, UV-cured, powder) used on wood furniture is expanding at a healthy 6.17% compound annual growth rate and will increase by $1.96 billion dollars from 2019 to 2023, according to market research firm Technavio....
Durability Improvement Underlies Much Coating Innovation
The main objective of most coatings is to both protect and decorate. The balance that must be achieved between decoration and durability depends on application. Even so, the durability of paints and coatings continues to be a key performance characteristic....
Sustainable, Low-Emissions, High-Performance Polyols for Wood Floor Coatings
The industrial wood coatings space is undergoing some challenges and changes while continuing to grow. The development of sustainable, low-emissions, high-performance wood floor coating technologies continues to be of high interest to the coatings industry. Sustainable content in these coatings...
Book Review—Wood Coatings: Chemistry and Practice
Wood Coatings: Chemistry and Practice is a comprehensive book on all aspects of wood coatings. It provides a holistic perspective that includes a brief history and development, basic market metrics, trends and needs (including social trends driving needs for coatings),...
Novel Oil Modified Urethane for Wood Flooring Applications
Vegetable oil modified urethane (OMU) has been widely used in wood flooring applications for many decades. Due to tightening volatile organic compound (VOC) regulations in recent years, the market has been slowly shifting towards waterborne systems. However, most of the...
Raw Materials
Coatings Industry Innovations Enable Energy Conservation
Energy consumption impacts not only costs, but sustainability. Reducing energy consumption, therefore, reduces costs and lowers greenhouse gas emissions. The coatings industry is helping to reduce energy consumption in many ways. Manufacturers are developing more efficient processes for the production...
Turning Used Plastics into Bright White Paint?
White paint today is produced using titanium dioxide, a mineral mined from the ground. Producing the titanium nanoparticles in the form and purity needed for paint applications is energy intensive, leading to undesirably higher carbon footprints—and higher costs.
Fine-Tuning Coating Surface Control Through the Use Of Modified Siloxanes
Siloxane-based additives are critical tools in coating applications because their structures can be varied to provide a broad range of performance benefits in many types of formulations and chemistries. Surfactants and defoamers are some of the more commonly recognized additive...
Liquid Color Measurement: A New Approach for Color Testing
Liquid Color Measurement: An Approach for Color Measurement of Liquid Paint and Pigment Preparations The liquid color measurement (LCM) system discussed here is based on a machine layout, where an opaque liquid (paint or pigment preparation) is put on a...
Pigment Binding of Alkyd Latex Polymers
EXPERIMENTAL Two alkyd latex polymers were used for the majority of this work. Polymer A was specifically designed for use in direct-to-metal primers. Development of this polymer and the associated paint formulations was described previously.10 The key performance attributes for...
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Axalta To Apply Its Antimicrobial Technology In Chicago Hospital For Coronavirus Patients
Axalta has announced that it will supply E&R Powder Coating with more than 7,000 pounds of its Alesta AM powder coatings for bed frames at a temporary hospital at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL, which is being used for coronavirus patients.
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Clariant has started monthly production of 2 million liters of disinfectant at its facilities in Gendorf, Germany. This disinfectant is then directly or via repacking partners provided to regional hospitals and other vital institutions in Bavaria, who are currently facing limited availability of this critical product during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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