Growing vegetables in greenhouses extends crop production seasons in northern latitudes, but the greenhouse environment is far from ideal for providing plants with optimal photosynthetic light. In fact, available photosynthetic daily light ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Lamps
BASF's new trend collection features 65 global automotive paint colors for 2019 and beyond. The colors explore the powerful potential of Real Authentic Ways (RAW). This overarching theme emerged from trend findings that society is focused ...
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BASF will form a global business unit (GBU) combining all of its pigments activities effective January 2016. In the second half of 2016, BASF intends to carve out its pigments business and establish separate legal entities. With sales of ...
Tags: Pigments, azo pigments, dyes
XSpark, BASF’s Coatings division has developed a color effect that has now been honored in one of the world’s most prestigious design competitions: the Red Dot Award: Product Design. For the first time in the 60-year history ...
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AkzoNobel’s contribution to fusing modern technology with classic painting techniques were celebrated in Amsterdam during a special viewing of Vincent Van Gogh’s newly-restored Field with Irises near Arles. As part of the ...
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Highest durability levels, outstanding coloristics and excellent processability in both, water- and solvent-based systems: Suppliers of automotive coatings have high expectations when it comes to pigments. BASF aims to meet the requirements ...
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In addition to its current extensive portfolio of inorganic pigment products, specialty chemicals company LANXESS will promote its line of new red shades at the Eastern Coatings Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey from June 1 – 4. ...
Troy Corporation will introduce new products at this year's Eastern Coatings Show 2015 in Atlantic City, NJ, June 1-4. Troy representatives will be available to discuss how Troy is Your Partner for Success, offering expert technical service ...
BASF now offers all five effect pigments of its Lumina Royal product series for plastics applications. This will enable producers of plastics all over the world to create attractive design options in blue and copper color shades. Already in ...
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Axalta Coating Systems has introduced the latest digital spectrophotometer, the Acquire Plus EFX for car refinish body shops in Korean market. About 30,000 digital spectrophotometers are in use by Axalta customers around the world. Now ...
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The Gasmet stand at ACHEMA, C53 in hall 11.1, will focus on the wide variety of applications for which FTIR gas analysis is now being applied, and will feature an innovative technology for the characterisation of paints and coatings. ...
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The upcoming Performance Days functional fabric fair in Munich this month will have two awards this time. Apart from coveted Performance Award for the best innovation, the brand new Eco Performance Award for the best sustainable development ...
Coatings formulators can now expand their styling color gamut with the introduction of Sun Chemical’s new red shadeQuindo Violet 55 Quinacridone pigment. The intense color of Sun Chemical’s red shade Quindo Violet 55 is 10 ...
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Sun Chemical Performance Pigments has added new transparent red and yellow iron oxide pigments to its range of Sunsperse ECO aqueous pigment dispersions for waterborne emulsion architectural and industrial paints. The new transparent red ...
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Sun Chemical and its parent company, DIC, have 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 metallic coatings for a full ...