Consumers in Europe are now almost spoiled for choice in the range of colors available in most coatings sectors. As a result coatings and colorant producers, as well as suppliers of materials running in-plant coatings facilities, are ...
American startup company LiquiGlide has developed an innovative coating that can permanently make the insides of a bottle wet and slippery. The coating will help in reducing wastage of products like glue or toothpaste by making the ...
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The American Coatings Association (ACA) presented its CoatingsTech Mattiello Memorial Lecture Award to Dr. Danny C. Rich, manager of Sun Chemical Corporation’s Color Research Laboratory. Rich delivered the Mattiello Memorial Lecture, ...
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Ambuja Intermediates, an India-based company engaged in manufacturing and exporting superior quality dye stuffs and organic pigments, is going to participate in the upcoming 15th China International Dye Industry Pigments and Textile ...
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BASF has made progress in its plans to build a world-scale methane-to-propylene complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The company has selected Freeport, Texas, as the potential site. It will use Air Liquide’s proprietary Lurgi MegaMethanol ...
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AkzoNobel has launched an ultra-reflective powder coating which can increase the effective output of commercial lighting fixtures by up to 30 percent. Developed by the company’s Powder Coatings business, Interpon ReFlex delivers ...
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Coatings company PPG Industries has completed the construction of its $40m plant in Sumaré, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 65,000ft2 plant will produce resin on-site. Resins produced at the Brazilian facility will be used to produce PPG's ...
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BASF has selected Freeport, Texas as the potential site in its plans to build a world-scale methane to propylene complex on the US Gulf Coast. BASF in a press release said, it will use Air Liquide’s proprietary Lurgi MegaMethanol ...
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PPG Industries held a ceremony to mark the completion of a $40 million, 65,000-square-foot plant for on-site resin production at its Sumaré, São Paulo, Brazil, coatings manufacturing facility. Resin produced at the facility ...
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Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC, will come together as one company at the European Coatings Show 2015 to explain how its product families of pigments and resins can be used together to create enticing coatings for a full range of ...
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Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd. (President Katsumi Kitagawa) announced that, effective January 1, 2015, it has merged two wholly-owned subsidiaries Toyo Ink Chemicals Taiwan Co., Ltd. and Toyo Ink Taiwan Co., Ltd. into a single operating ...
Tags: printing inks, SC Holdings, Taiwan Subsidiaries, pigments
AkzoNobel has introduced Enviroline 405HTR, a single-coat glass fiber reinforced lining system into its International coatings range. Enviroline 405HTR is designed to reduce product range complexity while meeting the ever-changing ...
Prime Resins Inc. has introduced a new class of inorganic water- and mineral-based coatings that provide corrosion and fire resistance protection on multiple surfaces. Prime Coat 6000 Lining, Prime Coat 6100 Fire and Prime Coat 6200 ...
Axalta Coating Systems will participate in the NACE Corrosion Expo, March 16-19, in Dallas, TX. For the past three years, the company has offered its customers and other attendees important insights and in-depth corrosion protection ...
According to a study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, global consumption of formulated adhesives was 10.24 MM tons in 2014 worth $29.4 billion. Volume has increased modestly since the 2009 recession and a 5% annual rate ...