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Evonik implements leadership change

Klaus Engel, long-standing Chief Executive Officer of Evonik, handed over to Christian Kullmann at the end of the annual shareholders’ meeting.

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“Axalta will likely remain an acquisition target“

Sherwin-Williams and Valspar are selling off their North American wood coating business to Axalta. But what is the impact on the wood coating market and how ...

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Promising feedstocks for a sustainable chemical industry

Carbon dioxide and hydrogen are promising feedstocks for a sustainable chemical industry. Currently, their conversions are most advanced for chemicals with 1 ...

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Radiation curing: giving films a smoother profile

A new paper investigates the film quality of electron beam curable varnish coatings on polymer web substrates. Properties were found to be affected by monomer...

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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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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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Cyclic polymers as advanced materials for surface modification

Cyclic versus linear: Belgian researchers from University of Ghent have proved that cyclic polymers are superior to their linear counterparts in many respects....

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Industry 4.0: “Start today or be left behind”

Some coatings manufacturers are already dipping into the digitalisation, but others are holding back. We donned our coatings goggles for a look around the Hanover...

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Five facts about the Indian coatings market

The Indian coatings market is quite agile and is growing steadily in the double digits’ area. We collected some interesting facts about the market.

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BASF starts new year with considerable rise in sales and earnings

BASF completed the first quarter of 2017 with a considerable rise in sales and earnings compared to the same quarter of last year. Especially in the Chemicals ...

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Sika further expands presence in West Africa

Sika is expanding its presence in West Africa and is establishing a new national subsidiary in Senegal – following those in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Cameroon. ...

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Interview: “Corrosion protection is and will remain the key

Corrosion protection is one of the most important features for coatings. We spoke with Maximilian Bendix, Head of E-Coat Customization at BASF about the current ...

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Axalta Coating Systems to acquire Valspar’s North American industrial wood coatings business

Axalta will buy Valspar’s business for USD 420 million in cash. Valspar is not selling entirely voluntary.