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Rain Carbon gives starting signal for production plant of industrial resins
Rain Carbon Inc. has commissioned detailed engineering for a new plant for the production of important raw materials for the adhesives and coatings industry at ...
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Recycling: How sustainable is UV-curing?
Nowadays, it is hard to imagine a printing industry without the utilization of UV curing anymore. It is efficient, it is fast, it is cheap. However, the technology...
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New technique could help turn Mars or moon rocks into concrete
Researchers have developed a form of concrete that humans could produce on Mars or the moon – and that might have important benefits here on earth.
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Saudi Minister launches industry committee for the growing coating sector
Saudi Arabian Minister of Commerce and Investment, Dr Majid Al Kassabi, is set to launch the Kingdom’s first paint and coating industrial committee on May 24, 2017 ...
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Preparation of UV-curable waterborne polyurethane-acrylate emulsions
Researchers at Tianjin University, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, have studied the molecular structure of UV curable waterborne polyurethane ...
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Tense situation on the market for key adhesive raw materials
The German Adhesive Association IVK has published current price trends in key adhesive raw materials. There are several reasons why tonnages imported to European...
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Anti-icing potential of petal shaped nanostructures planted on array micro-patterns
The aim of a paper was to report a strategy of planting a layer of petal shaped nanostructures on the surface of array micro-patterns, and producing excellent ...
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Sapici forms commercial alliance with Sun Chemical
Sapici and Sun Chemical have formed a commercial alliance to market Sapici’s lamination adhesives portfolio under the Sun Chemical commercial brand name.
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Replacing phenol in adhesive formulations with lignin
Lignin, produced as a byproduct of pulp and paper and bioethanol industries, is a polyphenolic compound that has excellent potential to be used as phenol replacement...
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Akzo Nobel rejects third takeover proposal from PPG
Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel has rejected a third takeover proposal from its U.S. rival PPG Industries, valued at EUR26.9 billion, saying it undervalues the ...
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UV-cured coating resins made from renewable thiolactone derivatives
A set of multifunctional UV-cured thiol-ene polymer resins was prepared from thiolactone containing monomers and different amine compounds. When applying the...
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“We will see increased use of bio-based materials“
Completely sustainable solutions are still rather rare in the paints and coatings industry. However, the academic world is quite active in this field. We spoke ...
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Freeman Technology opens office in Japan
Powder characterisation specialists, Freeman Technology, continues to expand their global presence with the establishment of an operation in Japan.