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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Dow Coating Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, unveiled new RHOPLEX 800h Acrylic Binder at the Western Coatings Symposium, providing a solution to formulators seeking to improve hardness in architectural paints. ...
Tags: Architectural Paints, Paints
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, ...
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Shell Chemicals recently took its newest product, GTL solvents, to the 2015 European Coatings Show in Nuremburg, Germany. Shell’s GTL solvents are next generation, high purity paraffinic fluids based on innovative gas-to-liquids ...
ANGUS Chemical Company has announced that AMP, a multifunctional specialty chemical that's widely used in latex paint formulations, is no longer classified as a volatile organic compound (VOC) under a final rule by the U.S. Environmental ...
Tags: AMP, VOC, Decoration
LiquiGlide, Inc. recently announced the world's first commercially viable super-slippery coating for paint and paint colorants. LiquiGlide's permanently wet coating prevents paint products from sticking to cans and manufacturing equipment, ...
Kyle Price, a PhD Candidate with the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, and researchers from Arkema Coating Resins , a business unit of Arkema, have earned the prestigious American ...
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Gareth H. McKinley, M.I.T. School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and Associate Head for Research, offered the keynote address at the first annual global Axalta Coating Systems Innovation Symposium. Over 100 Axalta ...
Celanese Emulsion Polymers, a global leader in vinyl-based emulsions, invites attendees of the ABRAFATI 2013 international exhibition to learn more about solutions for low odor, low VOC decorative paint. Increasing consumer demands for low ...
BASF recently launched Hydropalat WE 3111, a non-APEO pigment wetting agent which provides excellent color acceptance and can be used as a dispersing agent in base paints. Hydropalat WE 3111 outperforms the leading APEO-based mid-high HLB ...
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Confusion still remains over what exactly nanomaterials are being defined as. The European Commission, the European Union's Brussels-based executive, has at last published a definition of nanomaterials. But both environmentalists and ...
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Despite the current economic crisis that plunges the construction business ever downward, the "green building" trend is taking off. Even when new construction projects are in a decline, there is increasing interest in green building methods ...
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