Water shortages have become a major issue on a global scale. According to The Water Project, 783 million people lack access to clean, safe water. To put that number in perspective: one in nine people worldwide lack sufficient access to a ...
According to Ashland Specialty Ingredients, paint is changing. Yesterday's "house paint," a functional necessity to cover drywall, wood or masonry, must today be an "architectural coating" that allows owners to express their personal style. ...
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Air Products Materials Technologies segment will introduce the latest addition to its innovative portfolio of molecular defoamers and dynamic wetting agents—Surfynol® 107L—at the Associação Brasileira dos ...
Air Products introduces the latest additions to its innovative portfolio of defoamers—Airase 4750V and 4800 defoamers—at the Eastern Coatings Show in Atlantic City, N.J., from June 1-4. Air Products' Airase 4750V and 4800 ...
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BYK Additives & Instruments is launching a new additive on the market: BYK-1640 is a polymer-based, VOC- and silicone-free defoamer for aqueous systems which is also suitable for some applications that come into direct contact with food. ...
Manufacturers of aqueous high-gloss and wood coatings now have a new solvent-free, high-performance additive that eliminates foam without compromising surface appearance or integrity: Troykyd D209W from Troy Corporation. Highly compatible ...
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Coating additives are specialty additives primarily used during the manufacturing of coatings in order to improve their quality and performance. Some major types of coating additives include rheology modifiers, wetting and dispersing ...
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GIA announced the release of a comprehensive global report on Defoamers markets. Global market for Defoamers is forecast to reach $3.9 billion by 2020, driven by resurgence in demand from end-use markets, and stringent environmental ...
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Emerald Specialties Group, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has introduced two new 100% active FOAM BLAST defoamers for coatings and graphic arts, including both aqueous and energy curable (UV/EB) applications. FOAM ...
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OAKVILLE, Ont. -- ProKleen, which bills itself as Canada’s only full-service commercial food grade tank wash facility, has been purchased by US-based Quala. Quala provides IBC and bulk transportation services as well as sustainable ...
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Ashland Inc. has expanded its family of Aquapas RDP to include Aquapas M Series RDP, Aquapas T Series RDP, Aquapas HS-2098 RDP and Styrene-Acrylic based Aquapas N7930 and Aquapas N7970 RDPs. In 2011, Ashland Inc. launched its Aquapas ...
A defoaming agent is a chemical additive that reduces the surface tension of a solution, to inhibite the foam formation. A defoamer is generally insoluble in the foaming medium and must have some essential features: low viscosity, a ...
European regulations aimed specifically at limiting emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from coatings have been mainly confined to decorative paints and the manufacture of the coatings themselves. The last piece of major ...
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Kusumoto Chemicals, Ltd. has obtained a patent for a method for imparting defoaming property to a baking finish type topcoat paint containing an acid anhydride curing agent, a melamine resin curing agent or a glycidyl-containing acrylic ...
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