PPG Industries’ coil and building products-exterior coatings group will exhibit the full line of DURANAR fluoropolymer coatings and join Arkema Inc. in celebrating the 50th anniversary of KYNAR 500 resin, a key ingredient in every ...
Tags: PPG, Metal Coatings, pigments, solvents
Specialty label and packaging company CCL Industries is planning to invest around $35m in its facility in Guanajuato, Mexico over the next three years. The investment will see the addition of new equipment to manufacture plastic laminate ...
Evonik's TEGOVAPRO technology has been designed to deliver what was once impossible: glossy exterior coatings that are water repellent from the outside but permeable to water vapor from the inside. This Evonik innovation simply replaces one ...
Tags: Evonik, TEGOVAPRO technology, exterior coatings, matte paints
Arkema is showcasing one of the coating industry’s broadest technology and business offerings at ABRAFATI 2015, October 13-15, 2015, Stand #93. The company will display products spanning every aspect of coating formulation, including ...
Researchers at the Stockholm University in Sweden have developed pacakging from films of zeolite and nanocellulose, that can remove the odor emanating from food items, such as durian. The films have the potential to absorb the gas ...
Tags: Packaging Film, food items
PPG Industries' protective and marine coatings business has introduced the SIGMA SAILADVANCE high-performance antifouling coatings range suitable for a variety of operating conditions. The range currently comprises four coatings: SIGMA ...
Tags: chemicals, PPG, SIGMA SAILADVANCE MX, marine coatings
Wacker Chemie AG has started up a new specialty monomer plant with a yearly capacity of 3,800 metric tons at its Burghausen facility in Germany. "The specialty monomers; vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate are key raw materials in the ...
Tags: Textile
Dow Coating Materials , a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, accelerates progress in paints and coatings through customer collaboration, understanding market trends, and research and development, including high through-put research, ...
Tags: Coating Materials, Construction, coatings
German eco-business firms Zelfo Technology and Upgrading have teamed up to introduce an up-cycled packaging material based on wheat straw for the food industry. The Micro and Nano Fibrillated Cellulose (M/NFC) packaging solution ...
Among the forty presenters, not including three breakfast keynoters and a panel including two NASA scientists, at the Eastern Coatings Show will be Stuart Lipskin of BYK USA, Inc. and Carl Cavalin of Hexion, Inc. The Show is at the Taj ...
Tags: Eastern Coatings Show, Coatings
BASF is launching a new binder – Acrodur Power 2750 X. The product is designed for the production of natural fiber composites for automotive lightweight applications such as interior car door panels or shelves. As a low-emission ...
Tags: BASF, Acrodur Power, Lightweight Composites
In step with green building trends in commercial and institutional architecture, Dow Coating Materials (DCM) introduced two new resin technologies for low and ultra-low VOC coatings this week during the 2015 SSPC Conference and Exhibition. ...
Tags: VOC Coatings, SSPC 2015
BASF plans to invest up to €56 million in the expansion of its Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) value chain over the next four years. PVP is a polymer which is used in diverse industries, for example the pharmaceutical or the personal and ...
Tags: binding properties, PVP market, Construction
BASF showcases chemistry’s contribution at the BAU trade fair from January 19-25 in Munich. In hall A6 booth 303 the company presents numerous solutions including products to raise the energy efficiency of buildings. Other exhibits ...
Tags: flooring solutions, grouts, Construction
Methacrylate binders from Evonik, marketed as DEGALAN, are designed to offer multiple possibilities for the formulation of heat-sealing lacquers. They are used in the sealing of yogurt containers and pharmaceutical blister packaging. The ...
Tags: polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene, Construction