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Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. It's busy, busy, busy out there in the industry, and a lot of the news is coming from Europe, which is starting to sizzle with activity, but apparently has not experienced the type of economic recovery that the USA is starting to see.
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Hello and welcome to your early week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. With financials still coming out and deal-making afoot, we've a lot to cover, so let's get started.
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Hello and welcome to your late week international coatings industry update, brought to you by SpecialChem. The big financial reporter since last newsletter was DuPont, whose revenues rose on the strength of their TiO2 business. There is also a bunch of significant news in biosolvents, so let's get started.
- CoDev and Open Innovation 2012 - La Jolla, CA
- The Waterborne Symposium - New Orleans, Louisiana
- Paint & Decorating Expo 2012 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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A cycloaliphatic diol antimicrobial agent selected from the group consisting of 1,1-cyclohexanedimethanol, 1,2-cyclohexanedimethanol, 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, and 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol was found to provide antimicrobial activity...
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A coated article is provided with an absorbing layer(s). The coating is, in certain example embodiments, designed so that significant changes in visible transmission can be made by adjusting thickness of the absorbing layer without significantly...
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This patent describes a coalescent composition for coating compositions such as paints, adhesives, and coatings comprising a blend of dibasic esters, specifically (i) esters of adipic, glutaric, and/or succinic diacids and/or (ii) esters of isomers...
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Within few weeks two large corporations, BASF & Archer Daniel Midlands (ADM) have made opposite announcements around the same overall subject. BASF invested in a company which proposes a singular technology to transform biomass into fermentable...
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Narrow web flexo printing is a growing segment of today's printing industry. It is commonly used to print labels, sleeves and other materials that don't require the quantity or investment of wide web printing. The other advantage of narrow web...
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The dispersion of pigments is the most important process in determining the quality of paint.
Pigment Dispersing Agents play an essential role in the dispersion process.
This paper is intended to present an introduction in the dispersion process...
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