Paint & Coating News

Scientists have presented a detailed study on the effect of exposure conditions on dirt pickup resistance for exterior paints.

• Coating
• research

With the second bottoming of international oil prices, the domestic polyester raw material futures prices in April showed a clear upward and downward trend.

• polyurethane

The US "Forbes" magazine released the 2020 "Global Listed Companies 2000" rankings, and many coating companies made the list. Among them: Sherwin-Williams, a global coatings giant

• Painting&Coating
• Sherwin-William
• rank
• Forbes

Oil prices rebound, driving TDI and MDI prices up in the world.

• TDI
• MDI
• crude oil

A proposed ASTM International standard will allow manufacturers to make better use of portable goniometers to measure angles of drops of liquid when applied to a surface for testing the wettability of coatings, substrates, and pigments.

• Painting&Coating
• ASTM
• standards

Yesterday (May 11), NACE International, The Corrosion Society announced via press release that its CORROSION 2020 Conference and Expo was officially canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

• Corrosion
• cancel
• COVID-19

A poisonous styrene gas leak occurred at 3 am (May 7) in the Vishakhapatnam area of Andhra Pradesh, southern India.

• LG
• Leak
• Styrene

Axalta has broken ground on the newest phase of its Jiading plant in Shanghai, which represents an important new investment in waterborne coatings by the company in China.

• Axalta
• Waterborne
• Coating
• China

Chemists have studied silica-based hybrid coatings for the protection of aluminum against chloride-rich environment.

• silica-based
• hybrid
• coatings

Paint and coatings producers are continually improving their processes to comply with the increasing number of regulatory policies enforced by various governments.

• VOC
• Coating

Some of the world’s leading coatings specialists gathered virtually at the Royal Society of Chemistry to discuss how special surface technologies could be used to tackle the global COVID-19 pandemic.

• Coating
• COVID-19
• tackle

In the continuous development of the construction industry, technology is also progressing, and people pay more and more attention to the development and application of new technologies and new materials.

• PPG
• Eco-friendly
• Market

By the end of the month, the overall operating rate of domestic DMF enterprises was about 69%.

• DMF
• Pharmaceutical

Chemists have studied the possibility of silicon dioxide coatings modified by 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane as protective materials for stone.

• Silicone
• Coating

Even though the American Coatings Show Conference was cancelled, the organizers of the conference reviewed all the submitted papers. For her work on better understanding of stain resistance, Zeena Cherian of Ashland Specialty Ingredients was just announce

• America
• Coating
• Awards

The Asia-Pacific region is the world's largest sales market for coatings, followed by Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa, and South America.

• Painting&Coating
• Asia-Pacific

With the successive construction of major petrochemical infrastructure projects in various regions, coatings are an indispensable auxiliary material for anti-corrosion projects. This market has performed well in April.

• Painting&Coating
• market

On April 27, Tiger Surface Technology New Materials (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tiger China) announced the launch of a new generation of anti-hazardous microbial powder coatings-TIGER AM series, namely Yaomu series

• Painting&Coating
• anti harm

VTT and its business partners have launched a two-year project to develop a concept for a process to capture and utilise carbon dioxide.

• Carbon
• Dioxide

What could be better than a high-performance multi-functional additive? The same additive but without VOCs!

• VOC
• Coating