A new easy-to-disperse carbon black pigment that can produce stable waterborne pigment pastes within minutes – is now available from Orion Engineered Carbons. Experimental Black XPB 430 was developed to deliver the high jetness and ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, Decoration, carbon black pigment
BASF Coatings Japan Ltd. has been awarded a patent for a paint composition comprised of a hydroxyl group containing resin comprised of a hydroxyl group value of from 80 to 220 mg KOH/g, a glass transition temperature of −50° C or ...
Tags: Construction, Coating, Paint
Summer is here and with it is the hot, strong sun. While you may see this as an opportunity to tan, your rugs and carpets are hiding in fear. Why? Because, sun means only one thing for carpets and rugs—sun fading. Dover Rug & Home, ...
Tags: Rug, Carpet, Decoration
Ross Engineering Inc., a custom fabricator of storage tanks, pressure vessels and reactors, has acquired new machining equipment and upgraded its facility to better serve customers. It can now take fabrication projects of virtually any size ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Clariant, a leading specialty chemical company, announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Connell Brothers, the largest marketer and distributor of specialty chemicals and industrial ingredients in Asia Pacific, to market ...
Tags: Clariant Additives, Textile
PPG Industries reported record second quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year, according to a PPG press release. “We achieved new sales and adjusted earnings records due to the continued strong ...
Tags: Glass Segment, Construction
PPG Industries reported record second-quarter net sales in 2013 of $4.1 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year, but company glass sales dipped in what chairman and chief executive officer Charles E. Bunch calls a ...
Fiber-based packaging supplier Evergreen Packaging has entered into an intellectual property license agreement with Smart Planet Technologies to explore the development of cupstock products using EarthCoating technology. EarthCoating ...
Xanofi, a nanotechnology company specializing in nanofiber production and applications, has been granted a prestigious Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This funding will help ...
Tags: Textile
Hydromer and the Russian Cardiovascular Catheter company have entered into an agreement, under which the Russian firm is licensed to use the Hydromer hydrophilic coating on its percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) ...
Tags: Russian Firm, PTCA Microcatheters
How do you use packaging to communicate your sustainable strategy to customers? Come and find out. On July 17, 2013, Jim Hanna, director, environmental impact, Starbucks Coffee Co., will speak at the Packaging Digest Global Food & ...
Tags: Packaging, Sustainability, Gateway
AkzoNobel Powder Coatings' Interpon D3000 Fluoromax coatings for architecture have been awarded a Certificate of Material Excellence by Material ConneXion and accepted into Material ConneXion’s library of innovative materials. The ...
Tags: Interpon D3000 Fluoromax, AkzoNobel Powder Coating, Material ConneXion
Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received an R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine for its SPECTOR-HT ion beam deposition (IBD) System. The SPECTOR-HT is used to create precision thin-film coatings for the optical market for ...
Tags: Veeco, Ion Beam Deposition System
Hanjin Chemical, a specialty paint manufacturer, has begun operations of its Hanoi, Vietnam plant for specialty coating materials used for mobile devices. "We established the plant to supply paint materials to Samsung Electronics Vietnam ...
Xanofi, a nanotechnology company specializing in nanofiber production and applications, has been granted a prestigious Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This funding will help ...