Paint & Coating News

College of Human Ecology faculty and student efforts to advance sustainable approaches to textile and fashion design has led to the development of the Cornell Natural Dye Garden after a successful crowdfunding campaign that ended in fall 2016.

• Dye
• Greener

Archroma and MintModa, a fashion forecaster announced a new strategic partnership leveraging the respective strengths of both companies in colour creativity.

• Archroma
• MintModa
• Partner

The last five years have seen something of revolution in wall treatment in the country. For one, paints have evolved from their traditional role of just adding colour to a finished wall to become a major décor accessory one can use...

• Coating

British and Chinese scientists have created a new type of ceramic coating for planes that could be 12 times more effective at dissipating heat than what's currently on the market.

• Ceramic
• Coating

The butyl acetate market was range-around in H1, 2017. The bottom price of butyl acetate in East China was RMB 5,560/mt, while the peak price was RMB 6,225/mt, which left a gap of RMB 665/mt.

• Dissolvant
• Butyl Acetate
• Coatings

The operating rate in the titanium dioxide industry will be low, which will be under 60%. As the devices in part of factories will be shut or undergo maintenance, the supply of titanium dioxide will decrease.

• Titanium Dioxide

Applied Graphene Materials has partnered with HMG Paints to develop and commercialize grahene-containing coatings for a variety of industries.

• Coatings

The Paints brand by PPG Industries has introduced Black Flame (PPG1043-7), as 2018 colour of the year. Recently the Olympic brand unveiled Black Magic as its 2018 colour of the year.

• Decoration
• PPG

A pigment is a chemical material, which alters the colour of reflected or transmitted light due to wavelength-selective absorption.

• Pigments
• Dyes

Global coatings company Hempel is investing in a new research and development centre focused solely on passive fire protection coatings. Located just outside Barcelona in Spain, the centre is due to open towards the end of 2018.

• Hempel
• Coatings
• Fire
• Protection

PPG today announced the completion of a COLORFUL COMMUNITIES™ project in Milan, Italy, that helped revitalize the Villa Arconati, a historic villa in the hamlet of Castellazzo di Bollate that is the headquarters of...

• PPG
• Colorful

Axalta Coating Systems，a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, presented the opening address at the 24th annual DFO European Automotive Coating conference, held recently in Braunschweig, Germany, for automotive and paint industry experts.

• Axalta
• Coating

The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation Evonik’s acquisition of Huber Silica. Evonik and Huber Silica are both manufacturers of specialty chemicals, including precipitated silica.

• Evonik
• Coating

PPG Industries has given up its pursuit of Dutch rival Akzo Nobel and said it won't make a hostile takeover bid. After being rebuffed three times by the coatings specialist and having a judge toss out a lawsuit brought by a hedge fund to force the issue,

• PPG
• Akzo
• Nobel
• Coating

The Danish EPA has released a report on allergic reactions to tattoo inks, to help Echa in preparing a REACH Annex XV dossier to restrict harmful substances in the inks.

• Ink
• Tattoo
• EPA

An urgent notice from Wujiang Environmental Protection Agency said that all printing and dyeing mills were required to be shut down from 9:00PM on Jun 25 and sewage plants should turn off valves from Jun 26 morning.

• Painting
• Dye

Textile dyes are one of the most polluting chemicals that routinely go into our water-bodies. Effluents discharged from the dye industry contain a variety of toxic molecules that, if allowed to flow untreated, severely erode river water quality.

• Textile
• Dyes

Axalta Coating Systems, a leading coatings manufacturer, has opened a technology center and plans to invest more in China.

• China
• Paints
• Global

Hydrogen itself is seen as a key part of our clean-energy future, but even better would be hydrogen produced using the power of the sun...

• Paint
• Hydrogen
• Fuel

First, the supply in the Chinese acetone market declined as the units in Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Company, Kingboard Chemical and CCS were shut.

• Acetone
• Coating