Experts work on the more challenging aspect of sustainability for new trends on architectural colourpaints. Andrew Trapani, Technical Director Europe at Rohm and Haas comments on the complexity in aself-feeding circle where customers request and suppliers started already to research, e.g. in the way two polymers are combined.
Polyurethane-based coatings have been used for manual parquet flooring for some time now. Dr. Christof Irle, 2K waterborne coatings expert at Bayer MaterialScience, comments on the dominance ofwaterbased systems and mentions new raw materials and formulations for this area. R&D activities are currently focusing solutions to eliminate or reduce solvents emissions.
1 Jun 09
Polymer mixing enhances performance
Designed Diffusion Technology allows VOC-conform formulation without compromising performance. This paper won the European Coatings Award 2009.
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