Community Insight - SpecialChem 4 Coatings

Coatings & Inks Trends Analysis

Our industry experts regularly analyze the evolution of SpecialChem Members preferences and share with you unique aggregated data!
Our ever-growing community and unique position in the market allow us to have exclusive insight on key information our members share with us, such as the performances they seek or the markets they serve.

Below you will find a list of Community Insights.

Focus of the month

Insight in the adoption of UV technology March, 2010
	In our struggles to develop more environmental friendly coating systems we face many challenges ranging from performance constraints to deciding what resin system to use. Additionally we have the choice to select a curing mechanism, should we deploy air-drying, 2-component, coalescing through emulsion particle fusion or radiation-energy curing.

Past Community Insights

	February, 2010 - High throughput experimentation serves different purposes Having been a formulator myself, I have always looked for way to do things more efficient haven't you? When asking our community members this question they have responded in a way that is quite interesting. Indeed most formulators share the idea to do things more efficient, not only from a time perspective but also to increase reliability of results and even predictability of the outcome.

	January, 2010 - Bio-based or not…. This month we surveyed our coating community on the relevancy of bio-based content levels and how this may relate to your coating formulation and the (green) market perception of your formulation. Quite interesting is that the overwhelming feedback we received from you is that you do not yet see bio-based labeled raw materials as relevant in your formulation to be able to market the product as environmentally sound...

	December, 2009 - Biosolvents, prolonging existing technologies via bio-based solutions? When we evaluate the coating market, one can state that the VOC issue has probably been one of the most impactful issues in the past decade. Now that many companies have actively been developing solutions away from the typical petrochemical feedstock new –bio-based- technologies are becoming available for the coating industry.

	November, 2009 - Interesting feedback from the market place on raw material selection criteria! We all are formulating with raw materials and quite often we have a choice in different raw materials and their suppliers! When asking the market place on the key drivers by which they select raw materials the following trends were observed.

	October, 2009 - What drives your innovation? As usual we post a monthly question to identify what is shaking and moving the industry. This month we have asked you what your main driver of innovation was. I had expected a strong differentiation based on the application area but the data has shown that nearly all market segments share the same drivers for innovation. So, rather than discussing each segment separately I will provide you my feedback on the results based on a holistic market overview.

	September, 2009 - To innovate, a true innovation culture is critical In present times when many product solutions are seeing new competitors arise differentiation is a critical component to stay unique, add value to your customers and to prevent further commoditization. However we were wondering if the differentiation in relation to development of new products, solutions and offerings is a natural thing for you or not.

	August, 2009 - Product development efforts Formulating coatings (paints and inks) is a science which sometimes is referred to as a bit of black magic. People dream up blends of ingredients and components, grind up some solids and mix it with some more liquid ingredients to finish the concoction.

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