News Raw Materials
Synthesis and characterization of castor oil-based polyurethane acrylate
In a recently published paper scientists propose the synthesis and characterization of novel renewable castor oil-based UV-curable polyfunctional polyurethane ...
News Raw Materials
Akzo Nobel announces preliminary financial results for 2017
Akzo Nobel recorded growth in the financial year 2017 in its sections decorative paints, particularly in Asia, and specialty chemicals. The costs of the transformation...
News Raw Materials
Beckers launches coatings trend collection
Beckers Group just launched this year’s global trend collection for consumer electronics and lifestyle appliances. The samples illustrate trends for 2019/20. ...
News Raw Materials
Renewable raw materials: “The economy of scale should take care of the price-issue
The use of renewable materials in binders for the coatings industry will continue to grow, says Dr Toine Biemans. We spoke with the head of R&D of Worlée-Chemie...
News Raw Materials
Covestro presents new film technologies
Covestro presents new developments of film technologies for car interiors at the "Folien+Fahrzeug" conference in Hannover. According to the company, the car cockpit ...
News Raw Materials
Fraunhofer IFAM develops binder for lignin-based paints
Instead of happening as a result of one big discovery, independence from fossil resources will most likely take place gradually. Researchers at the Fraunhofer ...
News Raw Materials
Solvay appoints Daniela Manique as head of Coatis
Solvay has appointed Daniela Manique as president of the group’s Coatis global business unit (GBU). She has 14 years of leadership experience within Solvay, most ...
News Raw Materials
Krahn Chemie acquires distribution business of Memolex SAS
The Krahn Chemie Group has acquired the distribution business of French Memolex SAS and has established Krahn France SAS.
News Raw Materials
Akzo Nobel and Mullen Lowe Group expand collaboration
Akzo Nobel announced the appointment of Mullen Lowe Group as the new creative agency partner for its Paints global marketing organization, which is based in ...
News Raw Materials
BASF increases prices for pigments, dyes and preparations worldwide
Coatings, plastics, printing, cosmetics and agriculture markets have to expect higher costs. BASF increases its prices for pigments, dyes and preparations by up to 15...
News Raw Materials
Asian Paints recorded growth in 2017
Asian Paints announced financial results for the Third Quarter and Nine Months ended December 31.
News Raw Materials
PPG and U-M’s Mcity partner to develop coatings for autonomous vehicles
PPG has announced its partnership with the University of Michigan's (U-M's) Mcity, a public-private partnership that brings together industry, government ...
News Raw Materials
Digitisation and Big Data – What are they good for?
You’ve only just said goodbye to paper in the laboratory and made your acquaintance with Microsoft Excel and suddenly everyone's talking about digitisation....
News Raw Materials
Michelman inaugurates innovation centre for coatings in India
Michelman has announced the opening of its new packaging incubator, the Michelman Innovation Centre for Coatings (MICC), at its facilities in central Mumbai....