The Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA) is offering the opportunity to purchase annual subscriptions to interactive Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Regulation Maps that track the rules governing Architectural and Industrial ...
Dr. Azhar Awan from Cytec Industries Inc. presented a paper “Experimental Eco-friendly Sustainable Surfactants for Preparing Acrylic and Vinyl Acrylic Latexes for Architectural Coatings at 40th Annual Waterborne, High-Solids, and ...
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The Rudd Company appointed Jeff Takac vice president of sales and marketing. Takac’s focus will be leading both the sales function as well as building strategic customer partnerships throughout Rudd Company’s business units ...
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Advanced surface coating specialist Hardide Coatings has secured a grant of up to £250,000 under the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Smart’ scheme to commercialize a novel coating that will enable a new generation of ...
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U.S. 8,163,824 B2 Bostik, Inc. has been granted a patent for a hot melt adhesive comprised of a blend of 5%-40% weight of a styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer, the styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer is a substantially linear ...
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Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. has opened two new stores in the Bay Area – San Francisco and Lafayette. The Lafayette store is located at 3707 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549. The newest San Francisco store is located at 701 ...
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Sartomer USA, LLC, has appointed Heather Rayle as senior business director. Rayle will be responsible for marketing, sales and finance. She reports directly to Douglas Sharp, Sartomer’s global president, and will assume the commercial ...
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U.S. 8,192,603 B2 BASF Coatings GmbH has been granted a patent for an aqueous coating composition comprised of a metal oxide selected from the group consisting of bismuth oxide, vanadium oxide, manganese oxide, cobalt oxide, zinc ...
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U.S. 8,178,160 B2 PPG Industries has been granted a patent for a method for preparing a decorative and durable coating having a homogeneous hue comprised of dry-blend mixing a first powder coating composition having a first hue and a ...
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DuPont Refinish now offers a new range of Cromax Pro Basecoat components specifically to answer issues associated with using waterborne paint systems when low moisture levels affect evaporation and drying times. Even though bodyshops can ...
Michael Dell might be celebrating having agreed a buyout for his company, but $24.4 billion leveraged deal has seen a backlash, with one of the company’s largest shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, planning to oppose the ...
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The Xicato stand at Euro Shop Xicato has announced a new warranty program that guarantees the colour consistency and lumen maintenance of it modules. The company claims that its “Five-year colour consistency and lumen maintenance ...
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Till Becker was appointed executive director at Hess AG last month Hess AG and its subsidiary Hess Lichttechnik GmbH have started insolvency proceedings. Till Becker, sole member of the management board of Hess AG, filed the application ...
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Security watchdogs are now worried about a new attack vendor that cybercriminals could take advantage of – the growing number of devices that routinely use the Internet to function. Machine-to-machine (M2M) security is closely ...
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Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates recently took part in a question-and-answer session on popular message board site Reddit. Gates’ Ask Me Anything (AMA) session garnering more than 18,000 comments shortly after it ended. ...
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