Radiation curing
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Radiation curing by LED technology for industrial wood flooring coatings
LED technology for UV curing of wood flooring coatings has a high potential to replace the conventional mercury vapour lamp in the future. It offers the possibility of making a product more sustainable...
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New Review: Low-gloss UV-curable coatings
A newly published review focuses on light mechanisms, formulations and processes of low-gloss UV-curable coatings.
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Photocurable polyurethane acrylate for textile artificial leather
Researchers have proposed an eco-friendly photocurable textile artificial leather coating strategy. The fabricated artificial leather exhibited excellent colourfastness.
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IGM Resins do Brasil announces new laboratory
The new facility will focus on efficiency and performance tests of radiation curing products for various segments.
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Feasibility study on the overcoatability of UV coatings
In a current paper, approaches are being sought to improve the recoatability of UV coatings. Different approaches are chosen to change the surface properties.
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Enhancing weathering resistance of UV-curable coatings
Aiming to enhance the weathering resistance of UV curable coatings, a new study prepared a series of UV-curable composite coatings using TiO2 particles as filler and systematically evaluated the influences...
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Ecofriendly adhesion promoter for UV curable coatings
Researchers have studied a novel high performance, low cost, and environmentally friendly adhesion promoter – which can also can significantly enhance the corrosion protection properties of the coating....
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Castor-oil-based UV-curable hybrid coatings
Scientists have prepared a novel UV-curable hybrid coating with self-healing, recyclability, removability, and hydrophobicity.
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Arkema to expand its UV curable resins production
Arkema has announced plans to double its UV curable resins production capacity at its Nansha plant in China.
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IGM Resins appoints Solindis as distribution partner
IGM Resins has announced the creation of Solindis, a new company who will act as exclusive distributor for IGM for a large group of European, Middle East and African customers as of the 1st of January...
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Polyimide–polyester hybrid UV-curable powder coating
A new UV-curable maleimide-terminated polyimide was prepared and characterised. The viscoelastic properties of the hybrid system were most improved when 16% weight percent of polyimide was added into the...
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Review: Progress in the development of UV curable powder coatings
A recently published paper highlights currrent advances in the field of UV cured powder coatings and desscribes photoinitiators and reaction mechanisms during the UV curing process.
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Epoxidised linseed lipids as fast-curing alternative to drying oils
Epoxidised lipids in UV-curable systems can replace drying oils. These UV-curable systems can achieve drying times of only minutes. However, the mechanical properties of the UV-cured films are comparable...
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Ultraviolet cure kinetics of a acrylate network under varying light intensity
Scientists have investigated the photopolymerisation kinetics of a low glass transition temperature (Tg) urethane acrylate network as a model soft coating system.