The dispersions segment is continuing to be one of the most active in the European coatings sector in the development of new technologies as well as investing in mergers and acquisitions and expansions in production capacity. Demand for ...
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GCiS China Strategic Research estimates that the domestic market for anticorrosion coatings in China was worth more than RMB 36 billion in 2013, with sales of roughly 1.4 Mn Tons. The study finds that growth in 2013 was only 2.8 percent, ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, one of the leading global suppliers of liquid and powder coatings, has announced the expansion of its global product portfolio to include Alesta ZeroZinc, the next generation of zinc free anticorrosion primers. These ...
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EPA Region 7 has reached an agreement with Griffin Pipe Products, LLC, to settle violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and Clean Water Act (CWA) at its Council Bluffs, Iowa, facility that will require Griffin Pipe to lower lead emissions ...
PHILADELPHIA– Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin presented the Lehigh Gap Nature Center and its Executive Director Dan Kunkle with a 2014 Excellence in Site Reuse Award. The ...
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Global coatings supplier Hempel, has launched HEMPADUR AvantGuard, a portfolio of three new anti-corrosive zinc primers. Based on patented AvantGuard technology, HEMPADUR AvantGuard coatings provide better anti-corrosion protection than ...
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An Australian National University (ANU) team has successfully replicated one of the crucial steps in photosynthesis, opening the way for biological systems powered by sunlight, which could manufacture hydrogen as a fuel. "Water is ...
University of Liverpool researchers propose replacing a toxic treatment step in cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell production with one that is benign, but apparently just as effective [J. D. Major et al, Nature, published online 25 June ...
Hennessy Industries Inc. announced that its BADA wheel weight division has been honored with the 2014 Partners in Transformation Award from Sears Holdings Corp. for its implementation of a closed-loop recycling program. BADA was ...
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China's refined copper surplus is expected to widen in 2014, on lower demand from the collateralized borrowing sector, as well as a slowdown in the domestic private sector's construction activities, Chinese industry experts said Thursday. ...
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The South American mining industry will reach an estimated compound yearly growth rate of about 6.2% from 2012 to 2017, which will take the industry to a total value of $184.3-billion. Some of the world’s largest copper, bauxite, ...
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Pro-tect Coatings offers powder coat paints as a more environment friendly option than conventional liquid paints. Recently the company has upgraded to a larger powder coating oven size, the new oven is 6m long X 2.9m wide X 2.6m high and ...
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Tommie Copper Holdings, Inc., the original innovator and first-mover in the new category of copper-infused performance apparel, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Tengram Capital Partners ("Tengram"), a private ...
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Turkey's Bilkent University has used hollow-cathode plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition (HCPA-ALD) to make gallium nitride (GaN) thin-film transistors (TFTs) at temperatures below 250°C [S. Bolat et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
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The price of palladium, hitting $865 an ounce on Friday, made a notable record. It hasn't, as Reuters notes, traded so high since February 2001. What's more, it also surged by highs it hit back in 2011 when it traded in the mid-$800s an ...
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