The European Union’s controversial REACH legislation on the safety of chemicals has been challenging chemical producers and their raw material suppliers since it came into effect five years ago. Initially the major concern was that ...
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Dainichiseika Color and Chemicals Mfg. Co. has received a patent for a process for the production of a pigment dispersant comprised of polymerizing (a′) 5% to 30% weight of at least one of an aromatic vinyl monomer and a heterocyclic ...
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Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced three PIXMA printers and a CanoScan photo scanner to expand the creative solutions available to consumers for easily printing, archiving and sharing photos. The ...
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US company SWECO has introduced the Sanitary Bag Dump with Integral Dust Collector that significantly reduces worker exposure to nuisance dust. The Bag Dump Dust Collection System is designed to work exclusively with the SWECO Bag ...
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KGS Artwear launched its SportFreak line of graphic intense, performance sports apparel just for the sports fan. Using the latest in fabric imprint technology , these color-fast graphic designs are infused into moisture wicking athletic ...
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The Shepherd Color Company announced the development of a new pigment chemistry offers excellent durability, high opacity and a bright clean yellow color. Niobium Tin Pyrochlore (NTP) Yellow is an innovative inorganic pigment that expands ...
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Sachtleben Pigments has been granted a patent for a method of preparing a well-dispersable,rutile-structured,microcrys-talline titanium dioxide product having a crystal size of less than 60 nm from a TiO2 starting material,the method is ...
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Imperial Chemical Industries has ob-tained a patent for a pigmented,aqueous coating comprised of an aqueous disper-sion of non-crosslinkable addition oligo-mer of weight average molecular weight of 5000 to 15000 Daltons and calculated Fox ...
The market for pigments and dyes responds to the coloring needs of a wide range of end-use industries, ranging from paints and coatings to construction. With robust demand in key markets of paints and coatings, plastics, paper and printing ...
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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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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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