In terms of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, portfolio changes and investment projects, one of the most active sectors in the European coatings supply chain is dispersions. Despite a slow growth in demand for coatings, ...
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Despite the booming profits of TiO2 producers in Europe, they still want to diversify their portfolio into speciality pigments to ensure higher profit margins in the long-term. This switch into specialities is causing concern among ...
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Europe's coatings companies, especially the multinational ones, are reasonably confident they can continue to increase their sales in the short- to medium-term, unless the world is plunged into a second recession. But they are much ...
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Paint producers and their raw material suppliers in Europe are giving a new impetus to the drive to making sustainability a central objective of the whole coatings market across the region. The sector is seeking to draw up common ...
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PPG Industries announced that a new series of window products featuring Duranar coatings was among the winners of the 2012 Glass Magazine Awards announced earlier this month. The awards recognize the best products and glass applications in ...
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Sensient Colors LLC has been granted a patent for a method of modifying a pigment, the method is comprised of sulfonating a pigment comprised of at least one of an azo pigment, a phthalocyanine pigment, an anthraquinone pigment, a ...
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Kao Corporation has been granted a process for producing a pearl pigment comprised of adding an aqueous solution of a colored metal oxide precursor to an aqueous dispersion of a flaky powder so that the amount of metal ion is ...
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A judgement was handed down by a European court in June that Clariant Produkte (Deutschland GmbH), a German pigment manufacturer had been wrongfully claiming that Sudafast 132 (PY191) infringed its patent. It was also held that Clariant had ...
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BASF and Gabriel Performance Products, LLC, a U.S. based specialty chemical company, signed a contract to transfer the BASF Capcure business to Gabriel Performance Products. Capcure mercaptan-based curatives are used in epoxy curing ...
U.S. 8,158,698 B2 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company has been granted a patent for a powder coating composition comprised of at least one glycidyl-functionalized (meth) acrylic resin, 1%-30% weight, the weight percent based on the total ...
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U.S.2011219983 Lecithin and plasticiser compositions and methods(discloses compositions having lecithin and a plasticiser.Processes for producing such compositions are further disclosed.The present invention is also directed towards uses ...
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Porcelain is generally believed to have originated in China. Porcelain manufactured during the Tang Dynasty period (618–906) was exported to the Islamic world, where it was highly prized. By the Sui (about 580 AD) and Tang (about 620 ...
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In its first year of entry DyStar has gained a second position in the prestigious Parivartan Sustainable Leadership awards DyStar participated in the “Sustainability stewardship - innovation in shaping sustainability in Supply ...
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From low concentration protein solutions to emulsions, colloids and suspensions, the DelsaNano can measure particle size and zeta potential in most cases without the need to dilute the sample. Sample cells for both aqueous and non-aqueous ...
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La Montre Hermes opens a gate to the fairy night sky with the new Hermès Arceau Attelage Céleste. The watch features the emblematic “Duc Attelé” studded with star-like paillons or spangles. The obtained ...
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