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Aluminum powder with bright colour and excellent alkali resistance
A new study describes the preparation of sandwich structured polymer-encapsulated aluminum powder.
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Bright future for bio-based coatings
Industry experts from Akzo Nobel, Covestro and PPG Industries are expecting further opportunities for bio-based coatings systems. The insiders share their views on the current situation and provide an...
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Akzo Nobel invests in coatings application technology from Qlayers
Technology from Qlayers, which is opening up new possibilities in the application of industrial coatings, has prompted Akzo Nobel to acquire a stake in the startup.
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Self-healable and stretchable polyurethane film
A new paper reports a waterborne polyurethane film fabricated via multiple hydrogen bonds that is both room‐temperature self-healable and stretchable.
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Fujifilm: New inkjet pigment dispersion manufacturing plant
Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, a U.S. subsidiary of Fujifilm Corporation, will construct a new production plant for pigment dispersions, which is a colorant for water-based pigment inkjet inks.
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Recent advances of polyaniline composites
A new review article summarises the problems encountered in the preparation of polyaniline composites in anticorrosive coatings and lists the corresponding solutions.
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Microplastics from ship paints – “an underestimated source?
A recent study by the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, has revealed that most of the microplastic particles in water samples from the southeastern North Sea may come from binders used...
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Hempel opens its new Campus
Coatings company Hempel has opened its new campus, which features a newly constructed office building and an R&D facility. The campus is the new international headquarters for the Hempel Group.
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Plant-inspired superhydrophobic coating
Scientists have presented 3D multiscale sponges with plant-inspired controllable superhydrophobic coating for oil spill cleanup.
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Karsten Munk Knudsen nominated to Hempel board of directors
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Novo Nordisk, Karsten Munk Knudsen, has been nominated to replace Marianne Wiinholt as board member of Hempel.
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Preparation of an isocyanate-free composite coating
A new study focuses on a composite coating with controlled molecular architecture and describes a new convergent approach to functional macromolecules.
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Bodo Möller Chemie distributes products of FP Pigments
Bodo Möller Chemie Group expands its range of coatings and printing inks.
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Novel coating that fights corrosion and bacteria
Microban and Everbrite have partnered to offer a new antimicrobial coating that fights corrosion and bacteria.
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Data sharing in the coatings industry – what’s the status?
The need to digitally transform is nothing new. Banking, fashion, travel and a host of other industries have already made the leap. The coatings industry is not immune to these developments. In a digital...