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Krahn Chemie takes over distribution for FP-Pigments in Germany
Krahn Chemie GmbH and the Finnish company FP-Pigments Oy started to cooperate in the sales and marketing of opacity pigments for paint, coating and printing ink ...
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Water-borne coatings: “Still challenges in some high-gloss trim paints”
Calls to lower the solvent content of coatings are in line with customer demands and regulations. Anne-Sophie Hesry, senior chemist, R&D Performance Polymers at ...
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Inks made of graphene-like materials
An international research team has developed inks made of graphene-like materials that are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques for optoelectronics...
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Real-time characterization during dispersion process enhances product quality
Particle size is one of the key aspects influencing the performance of coatings and inks, such as viscosity, transparency, stability and color strength. Dr. Felipe ...
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Evonik builds new production plant for specialty copolyesters
Evonik Industries is building a new production plant for specialty copolyesters at its Witten site in Germany. As binders for paints, specialty copolyesters ...
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Preventing mussel adhesion using lubricant-infused materials
During marine fouling, surfaces are encrusted with scale or biological organisms, which can be expensive to remove. A group of researchers has used polymers ...
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PPG opens automotive refinish training center in Argentina
PPG has opened a new 300-square-meter training center for automotive refinish professionals in Pillar, Argentina.
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Anticorrosive water-borne paints with reduced phosphate content
The objective of a research was to formulate water-borne epoxy coatings free from zinc and with reduced phosphate levels, replacing zinc phosphate by calcium...
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Multi-impact testing for stone-chip resistance: EN ISO 20567 1 revised
Grit, road metal and other materials can damage automotive coatings so that individual layers come off or the whole coating delaminates from the substrate. ...
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Akzo Nobel nominates new Supervisory Board members
With Sue Clark and Patrick Thomas Akzo Nobel has nominated two new Supervisory Board members.
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Modifying the structural properties of epoxy resins
To what extent do modifiers affect the properties of epoxy resin? Austrian researchers have investigated the thermomechanical, mechanical and fracture mechanical ...
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Disenchantment regarding politics and the EU on the part of SME colleagues is understandable”
Luxembourg-based company Peintures Robin is celebrating its 90th anniversary. CEO Gérard Zoller talks about the peculiarities of the market in this small country...
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Wacker expands technical center in Dubai and includes new polymers lab
Munich-based chemicals group Wacker is strengthening its presence in Middle East and Africa (MEA) by expanding the service portfolio of its technical center ...
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Improving the thermal properties of pigmented acrylic resins
In a study, the effect of silica aerogel as thermal barrier additive for two different types of acrylic resins was investigated.