Paint & Coating News

Nippon China has successfully developed anti-viral coil coatings with a virus inactivation rate of over 99%

• Nippon
• Painting&Coating

On June 11th, China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone Yantai Area Intelligent Manufacturing Key Project Centralized Commencement Ceremony was held, and Jinqiao Unocal New Material's annual output of 50,000 tons of metal surface modified composite new mater

• Painting&Coating
• high-performance
• Shandong

For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through. Lab tests or even detailed computer simulations to determine their exact properties, such as toughness, can take hours, days, or

• Tougher
• Coatings
• research

The International Institute of Building Enclosure Consultants is hosting its first-ever virtual trade show in the coming weeks.

• IIBEC
• Coating

As of the end of 2019, according to monitoring, the total production capacity of propylene in mainland China has exceeded 40 million tons.

• Propylene
• China
• 2020

On June 10, Asia CUANON (603378) issued an announcement that in order to optimize the company's product structure, expand its business scope, expand market share, meet the company's diversified layout in the field of building materials

• Asia CUANON
• project
• Coating

Recently, the expert review meeting for the group standard of "Antibacterial and Antiviral Coatings" was held in Guangzhou Building.

• Painting&Coating
• anti-virus
• Guangdong

BASF started piling of the first plants of its smart Verbund project in Zhanjiang, China.

• BASF
• China
• Guangzhou

The Corona crisis has also affected the paint and coatings industry. The 10 largest paint and coatings manufacturers in the world lost 3.0 % of their sales turnover on a EUR basis in the first quarter of 2020.

• Coating
• paint industry

Recently, the reporter learned from the Science and Technology Bureau of Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province that China's scientific research team has successfully developed a gloss-adjustable water-soluble acrylic resin through the research

• Water-soluble resin
• Painting&Coating
• Market

Clariant has recently launched solutions for high-performance and growing sustainability requirements for different end users in North America (automotive, transportation, construction, consumer goods and household goods industries).

• Painting&Coating
• Clariant
• North America
• Market

A new paper reports the use of functionalised nanosilica as a non-leaching biocide.

• Painting&Coating
• research

A new paper presents results regarding the possibility of using intumescent alkali-activated borosilicate inorganic polymers (AABSIP) as passive fire protection for various substrates.

• Polymers
• Coating
• research

Like many other manufacturing industries, European paint manufacturers and their suppliers hope that the region's economy will recover from the devastating effects of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

• COVID-19
• power-coating
• demand
• market

Recently, Lubrizol launched a new high-solids polyurethane dispersion Aptalon 8080HS commercially available products.

• Lubrizol
• polyurethane dispersion
• Painting&Coating

The researchers note that certain metals that aren’t poisonous to humans can be lethal to viruses and bacteria and, according to reports, the findings showed that surfaces coated with copper nanoparticles “strongly blocked infection of the cells by the vi

• COVID-19
• Coating
• research

Scientists have investigated the surface chemistry and wettability of octafluorocyclobutane and acrylic acid copolymer combined LDPE substrate by pulsed plasma polymerisation.

• Painting&Coating
• research

Since its official launch in August last year, a new type of coating designed to provide greater protection for the bulk cargo tanks has received nearly 40 applications and gained considerable market recognition.

• Nippon
• Cargo paint
• market
• Painting&Coating

Recently, PPG Master® Lacquer Suzhou flagship store opened in Suzhou Red Star Macalline Park store.

• PPG Master
• China
• Painting&Coating

Natural biomimetic surfaces have the advantages of micro-/nanoroughness and minimised free energy characteristics that can motivate the dynamic fabrication of superhydrophobic antifouling surfaces.

• Coating
• research