Welcome to our 2003 Coatings Trends Survey page. Members of www.PaintandCoatings.com were invited to respond to 15 questions designed to delineate the changing direction of the paint and coatings industry in the next three to five years. The...

Today's formulation criteria increase emphasis on reduced VOCs, and therefore efficient vehicle systems with the lowest possible viscosity and the highest solids loading have become very important. Therefore, modern solvent systems are more complex,...

Described as "a new industrial revolution", nanotechnologies are at the keen edge of sustainable production in Europe. Already fuelling a broad spectrum of applications in industries as diverse as information technologies, automotive,...

In recent years, the EPA has become increasingly concerned not only about VOCs and their atmospheric effects, but also about hazardous atmospheric pollutants (HAPs) in general, including all aerosol materials that are toxic, or cause a harmful...

Once each month, our India Correspondent, Mr. Ravi Marphathia will be bringing PaintandCoatings.com readers all of the news of the burgeoning Indian coatings market with a local perspective. This month, he explores the financial planning and...

In the Spring of 2002, PaintandCoatings.com conceived and carried out a survey concerning the technical ramifications of recent VOC regulations directed at architectural and decorative coatings produced in the USA. While the US Environmental...

Terrorists, warring factions, and saboteurs use chemicals commonly found in communities in industrialized nations to create improvised explosives, incendiaries, and chemical agents. Common chemicals may be used because standard military chemical...

Before we even knew what coatings were, we were kids. A bicycle was, for many of us, our primary form of transportation. It was our freedom. Sure, gears and brakes were cool. A banana seat or a sissy bar could add to the look. But what really...

In spring of 1999, the biggest story in the industry was the South Coast Air Quality Management District's adoption of a proposed amendment to its Rule 1113 governing the amount of volatile organic compounds allowed in paints and other coatings. On...

Although the majority of the mixing and dispersion work done in a paint plant is done by high speed devices such as high speed dispersers and mills, both formulators and production people should also understand low speed mixing techniques, and the...

One problem with media milling since ball mills was the inefficiency of energy distribution inside the grinding chamber. While using a pumping impeller as a media acceleration device is by no means a novel idea, the authors describe the design...

We have recently seen experimentation with supercritical CO2 as a solvent and propellant in the paint industry, so why not near-critical H20 to replace process solvents? Read on to understand how the researchers at Georgia Tech propose this...

No single other operational problem affects the international shipping community as greatly as the need to find a replacement for tributyltin based antifouling coatings. These TBT coatings were recognized in 1989 as causing deformation in oysters...

Asphalt bitumen tends to flow. (Put a brick on top of a cube of roofing bitumen for a week, and it will disappear into the cube.) On the rural routes of Pennsylvania, rutting is a particular danger, especially in the rain. This appears to be a...

Galvanized steel sheet use by the automobile industry gained a high profile in the late 1980s/early 1990s when more and more carmakers opted to use it instead of applying extra layers of paint to beat rust. Automobiles have spurred an increase in...

Of all recent developments in processing machiners, the basket mill has been among the most cheerfully received. Basket mill is designed specifically to offer complete mixing and dispersing in a single tank without tank changes or separate premix....

Brownfields are abandoned, closed, or under-used industrial or commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is hindered by real or perceived chemical contamination. The cleanup and repurposing or restoration of brownfields represents one of...

Few chemical materials on earth have found more uses than calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is all around us, and much-used in the coatings industry. Understand the types of calcium carbonate available and their correct use in modern coatings...

Corporate think-tanks and incubators have been around for many years. This article explores a new, Internet-based organization that specializes in the development of assets in the chemical industries, including paint and coatings.

Color is an experience enjoyed by almost all the human race from a very early age. Our coatings reflect our love of color, and come in all hues and shades. With the profusion of effects pigments now on the market, it becomes increasingly important to...

Advances in composite technology are revolutionizing major industrial markets such as transportation, oil and gas production and civil and marine infrastructure. An example is the first composite offshore storm water drainage system in Long Branch,...

In todays world of microelectronics, circuit traces have become too thin to reliably etch on a PCB. Find out how conductive inks offer a solution to this and many other problems in electronics.

Petroleum reserves are more difficult to maintain, petrochemical material prices continue to increase. This article explores the possibilities of crop-based renewable resources, and their substitution in the petrochemicaql market stream.

Each year, corrosion eats its way into the profits of the chemical process industries. Spray coatings, linings and corrosion-resistant materials of construction are common solutions to the ever-present corrosion problem. Field inspection, service and...

Corrosion remains one of the most costly infrastructural problems since the industrial revolution. This article outlines the various types of corrosion-inhibiting ingredients available to the coatings industry, and how they should be used in...

The ongoing consolidation of the paint and coatings industry continually empties the roles of mid-sized companies in the industry. This industrial landscape must be repopulated to support a vital, thriving industry. This first in a series of articles...

The Daimler-Chrysler plant in Dusseldorf, Germany, has, for the first time, succeeded in completely recycling and reusing vehicle paint material. This case study explores the possibility of integrating recycling into the normal coating process.

Setting up and maintaining a coatings production laboratory is a difficult task for several reasons. Any paint facility lives or dies by the efficient operation of its production laboratory. In this article discover the key elements to create a best...

A coating additive containing the inherently conductive polymer (ICP) ligno-PANI has been developed as a key component of a new corrosion control product line. This product, known as Catize is the subject of this first expose. Discover also their use...

Year after year straightforward management directives come down: improve efficiencies, improve quality, cut costs. One energy-demanding area in pigment dispersion has resisted all efforts to produce marked improvements in efficiency - the...