Paint & Coating News

BASF 3D Printing Solutions is presenting a variety of new materials at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference, which takes place April 8 to 12, 2018 in St. Louis. Together with Essentium Materials, Texas, BASF 3D Printing Solutions...

• BASF
• 3D-Printing

Sika is continuing to expand its production capacity in West Africa with the opening of a concrete admixture factory in Senegal. The new plant is the first in the country. Sika has a total of 19 national subsidiaries and 20 factories in Africa.

• Sika
• Africa

Dominion Colour Corporation (DCC) and LANSCO Colors announced that they will be merging their companies.

• DCC
• Merger

DowDuPont announced a plan to make a series of investments totaling approximately $100 million over the next two years to expand manufacturing capacity and to modernize facilities at the Sabine River Works (SRW) plant in Orange County, Texas.

• DowDuPont
• Expansions

Evonik Corporation’s High Performance Polymers Business Line announced a sales agency agreement with Seher Consulting Ltd. for its VESTAMID® NRG polyamide 12 product line used in oil and gas applications for the Canadian region.

• Evonik
• Contract
• Seher

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC introduced a new resin that the company said can help manufacturers formulate coatings with lower volatile organic compounds (VOC). GP BKS-2605 resin provides the performance attributes of Georgia-Pacific Chemicals’...

• Georgia-Pacific
• Resin

Dominion Colour Corporation (DCC) offers a broad color palette of pigments worldwide. To ensure ongoing supply to the European Union (EU), DCC has successfully completed REACH registration for a wide range of products.

• REACH
• DCC

Dr. Deepak Parikh, CEO and region president of Clariant Corporation North America, shared insight on the latest economic trends impacting the color pigments industry during the Color Pigments Manufacturers Association (CPMA) Members’ Meeting on...

• CPMA
• Pigments
• US

Recent gains in US spot toluene prices have pushed disproportionation margins into negative territory and have dented demand from the chemical segment, S&P Global Platts data showed Monday.

• toluene
• Price

No. 865 is a 750°F (399°C), three-zone conveyor oven from Grieve currently used for curing coatings at the customer’s test facility. Workspace dimensions of this oven measure 30” W x 18’ D x 15” H. 90KW (30 KW per zone) are installed in Incoloy...

• Grieve
• Oven

Starting April 1, 2018, Sartormer Americas, a business unit of Arkema, expanded its distribution network through a partnership with Harwick Standard Distribution Corp. to market and sell Sartomer specialty (meth)acrylate additives and co-agents into...

• Sartormer
• Arkema
• Distribution

Mascoat is releasing its WeatherBloc-HRC Coating, a new thermal insulation coating for commercial buildings and metal roofs. Unlike standard reflective rooftop paints, this coating combines thermal insulation with reflective paint to provide dependable th

• Mascoat
• Coatings

Hydrite Chemical Co., an integrated manufacturer and supplier of chemicals and related services, will be exhibiting at this year's American Coatings Show (April 10-12) at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The company will be in booth 343.

• Hydrite

At Booth #2531, Clariant’s showcase will include Genamin Gluco 50, its unique, sugar-based low-VOC multifunctional neutralizer for eco-label certified paints. This is set for its North American launch at ACS 2018...

• Clariant
• Innovation

LANXESS Corporation’s Inorganic Pigments (IPG) business unit hosted its 27th annual BAYFERROX Color Workshop in Pittsburgh from March 6-8. Nearly two dozen professionals from concrete products manufacturers in North America participated in this ...

• Lanxess
• IPG

BASF will launch VINOFAN, a vinyl acrylic latex binder for the paper coating industry, at PaperCon 2018, which is scheduled for April 15-18 in Charlotte, N.C. VINOFAN will join BASF’s APEX platform of high strength binders developed for paper and...

• BASF
• Paper
• Coatings

BASF’s coatings division has won the internationally coveted iF Design Award in the category ‘automobiles/vehicles’ for its functional paint technology for passive temperature management. The jury honoured the specific properties of the paint system...

• BASF
• Coatings

BASF Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. closed the previously announced sale of a portion of its oleochemical surfactants business in Mexico to Stepan CDMX, S. de R.L. de C.V. The transaction includes the Mexico oleochemical surfactants product portfolio and...

• BASF
• Sale
• Surfactants

He presented the new IHD series from Romaco Innojet, which was specially designed for pharmaceutical hot melt coating processes and meet...

• Coatings
• Pharmaceuticals

The colorants industry, comprising producers of dyes, pigments and their intermediates, is an important part of the chemical industry, particularly in India and China. Products from the industry serve the function of coloration...

• Colorants
• India
• China