World demand for emulsion polymers in paint and coatings (excluding paper coatings) is forecast to expand a healthy 5.4 percent per year to 5.0 million metric...
BASF and Henkel have signed an agreement under which BASF intends to acquire Henkel’s professional Western European flooring, tiling and waterproofing business in ...
In a paper, researchers contrasts cement paste - concrete’s binding ingredient - with the structure and properties of natural materials such as bones, shells,...
Scientists have developed a technique that can repair old, cracked asphalt. They got their inspiration from a method used in cancer treatment based on nanoparticles. ...
A 200-square-foot slab of seemingly ordinary concrete sits just outside the Peter Kiewit Institute as snowflakes begin parachuting toward Omaha on a frigid ...
A new self-healing concrete aims to reduce the requirement for maintenance of structures over the long term by slowing down the effects of deterioration due ...
Cracks in concrete can self-heal when exposed to prolonged wetting, but this is limited to narrow cracks. In practice, cracks > 0.2 mm cause leakage and...
A new water based, environmentally coating provides corrosion protection in outside storage as well as offering corrosion resistance for embedded rebars.
A work aimed to study the performance of ground white and brown chicken eggshell waste powders as potential replacements of conventional quarried limestone in ...
According to a recently published study by Applied Market Information Ltd, polymer based single ply membranes are gaining market share strongly from bitumen...
