- Detroit Society hosts successful FOCUS
Conference.
The Detroit Society for Coatings Technology sponsored its 31st annual FOCUS (Future of Coatings Under Study) Conference on Thursday, May 4, 2006. Held at the MSU Management Education Conference Center in Troy, MI, the conference attracted over 200 participants. The theme of the one-day program was "Globalization, Regulation, and Innovation." ......
- Coiled and ready to spring into
action.
Despite starting coil coating production almost 50 years after the US, the Chinese industry is rapidly adapting to the use of coil coatings in construction, placing increasing demands for high quality coatings. This creates opportunities for companies to expand volume production and to increase competitiveness by improving the quality of ......
- Automotive plastics' challenge: 10-year paint
durability.
Both the auto industry and the EPA have higher performance expectations for plastics coatings. Producers of paints, pretreatments, and plastics resins are scrambling to satisfy stiffer specs for durability and VOCs. Today's automotive coatings for plastics must travel an increasingly rough road. More sloping vehicle designs with more horizontal surfaces ......
- Shifts to water-based paints drive growth in
surfactants: as the industry reacts to environmental pressures and
continues to shift towards water-based and low VOC coatings, surfactants
will become more...
The emulsifying, wetting and dispersing properties of surfactants as additives are critical in the production processes of some major sectors including agrochemicals, textiles and emulsion polymerisation. A surge in demand from water-based paints and coatings and emulsion polymerisation applications is expected to further help the 565.4-million [euro] European industrial surfactants ......
- Prosperity and enterprise--the promise of Vietnam: the
Asia Coatings Forum and exhibition in Vietnam proved a great success and
is set to become the first of many. (Event Review).
The importance of Vietnam as a growth market for the coatings industry was underlined by the success of the very first Asia Coatings Forum and exhibition held at the Hotel Equatorial, Ho Chin Minh City, in March. The opening of a new powder coatings factory by Akzo Nobel in Ho ......
- Leo Procopio to lecture at PSCT fall
symposium.
Philadelphia Society member, Leo Procopio, of Rohm and Haas, will present "New Developments in Waterborne Acrylic Resins for Low-VOC Industrial Maintenance Coatings" at the upcoming PSCT symposium on "Industrial Coatings Research Boundaries." The symposium will be held on October 11, 2007, at the Williamson in Horsham, PA. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ......
- The grass really can be greener ...
Although the paint and coatings industry often touts its extensive capabilities in producing a large palette of shades and hues, one color in particular stands out more than others these days--green. The predominance of this green, however, does not reflect shifts in consumer demand for products of this actual ......