Protective coatings

News Coatings Technologies

Research aims to find an isocyanate-free alternative for military coatings

A new technology will have the potential to significantly reduce environmental impact while improving the overall effect on human health and safety. ...

News Raw Materials

Univar to open new coatings and adhesives laboratory

Univar announced the opening of a new laboratory that will service the coatings and adhesives industry.

News Application Areas

Interview: Coil coatings in architecture

Sonja Specks, editor European Coatings Journal, asked Per-Erik Sundell, SSAB about the big differences of facade and roof top coatings. Furthermore in how far ...

News Raw Materials

PPG announces executive appointments

PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) today announced several executive appointments effective March 1.

News Application Areas

Viability of epoxy-siloxane hybrid coatings for preventing steel corrosion

In a research work, eight coatings consisting of primers, topcoats and combinations of primers/topcoats were evaluated.

News Application Areas

Investigating antifouling properties of surfaces featuring zwitterionic polymer coatings

Zwitterionic polymer coatings can serve as a promising new class of anti-fouling materials.

News Application Areas

Efficient coatings and its copolymers for marine and bacterial fouling prevention

Researchers investigated molecular design, fabrication, and properties of thin-film coatings based on poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) (PMOX) and its copolymers to ...

News Application Areas

Antifouling and antibacterial hydrogel coatings with self-healing properties

Multifunctional self-healing hydrogel coatings based on a dynamic disulfide exchange reaction were developed via surface-initiated thiol-ene photopolymerisation. ...

News Application Areas

Corrosion protection for reinforcing metal

A new water based, environmentally coating provides corrosion protection in outside storage as well as offering corrosion resistance for embedded rebars.

News Application Areas

Studying the effect of sol-gel coatings on aluminum corrosion protection

In a paper Indian researchers compared the corrosion protection of sol-gel coatings with different organic functionality on Al-2024 substrate.

News Application Areas

Glass-like coatings for automotive parts combine protection with beautiful colour

Researchers have developed new coatings, that combine corrosion and wear protection with beautiful colour.

News Application Areas

Improving the anti-corrosion performance of epoxy coatings

Solvent-based epoxy resins are often used for the anti-corrosion purpose but their cured process fabricating plentiful micro-pore via solvent evaporation is...

News Raw Materials

Fatty acid based waterborne epoxy ester resins for coating applications

High performance water soluble epoxy ester resin was synthesised by partially reacting bis-phenol A based epoxy resin with different fatty acids.

News Raw Materials

Fluorosilicone additive delivers defect-free foam control

A new fluorosilicone additive has been introduced for defect-free foam control in solvent-borne and radiation-curable coatings.