Q. My house needs more efficient windows. I live alone, so I am considering some glass block windows for security. Are they very efficient and how can I have some summertime ventilation with them? A. Glass block windows are definitely ...
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“Key pacemakers for Autumn/Winter 2014/15 are checks exuding that trendy Brit chic. Patching makes for exciting contrasts: mixed, patched – fancies are the new basics! In the denim segment we feature heavily destroyed effects ...
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Oerlikon Balzers, the market and technology leader in the field of high-quality hard material coatings is continuing to expand its footprint in Asia and is opening its first coating center in the Philippines. Thanks to its local presence, ...
Color in home decor may be all the rage, but Canadians are stuck on neutrals. That’s the finding of a countrywide survey conducted by leading brand CIL paint of Canadian paint habits over the last year. The survey, which polled a ...
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Q. My house needs more efficient windows. I live alone, so I am considering some glass block windows for security. Are they very efficient, and how can I have some summertime ventilation with them? A. Glass block windows are definitely ...
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Belgium-based Europlasma, one of the world leaders in low pressure plasma technology, presents a new family of conformal nanocoatings for the electronics industry under the Nanofics brand name. Nanofics refers to nanoscaled ...
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The rising demand for polyurethane automotive coatings has prompted Bayer MaterialScience to expand the production of two important coating raw materials: hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI). After a ...
Tags: Bayer, Expand Production Capacity, HDI&IPDI Coating Raw Materials
Axalta Coating Systems is rolling out its latest generation Nap-Gard® product which can withstand continuous operating temperatures of 155°C (311°F). Nap-Gard High Tg 7-2555 is a thermosetting epoxy powder designed for use as a ...
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Rust-Oleum continues introduced forth fresh, innovative products to the automotive industry. From water repellents to protective coatings and everything in between, Rust-Oleum offered a full-line of products to protect and enhance the ...
Arkema has officially started its new 60,000 MTY emulsion polymers facility on its Changshu platform. The plant, part of Arkema's Coating Resins business unit, will serve customers in the Asia Pacific region with a full line of waterborne ...
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Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSH: ASH), announced the addition of a coatings and construction lab in its Shanghai Technical Center. With 20 additional chemists, the newly expanded technical center ...
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Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 3,059,000 net tons (nt) of steel in October, including 2,233,000 nt of finished steel (up 8.5 percent and ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been using limited area epitaxy (LAE) to improve the performance of lasers diodes (LDs) grown on free-standing semipolar (20-21) gallium nitride (GaN) substrates [Matthew T. Hardy et al, J. ...
Coating applications, one of the major sources of industrial volatile organic compound emissions, are facing stricter industry regulations as air pollution has emerged as a major issue for the Chinese government, sources said. The central ...
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DSM and Empire Supply of Houston, Texas have entered into a distribution and supply agreement for DSM’s UVolve UV field applied floor coatings for North America. DSM transferred all direct sales activities of UVolve Instant Floor ...
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