While the passenger vehicle market has experienced weakening of demand in recent months, the market for heavy-duty vehicles remains healthy. Consequently, demand for coatings used on these vehicles and their…

I have been involved with automotive coatings for more than 40 years. When I started, car bodies were made of cold-rolled steel with little galvanized steel or plastic, primers mainly…

By Ravi Ravichandran, Michael Emmet, Matthew Gadman, John Florio, and Steven Woltornist, King Industries, Inc. A new class of metal-free catalysts has been developed that promotes the crosslinking reaction of…

By Matthew Gadman, John Florio,  Ravi Ravichandran, and Steven Woltornist, King Industries, Inc. New water-soluble urethane diol resins have been developed to be used as resin modifiers for waterborne  coatings systems…