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Jul 30, 2012 | Article
By Jean-Pierre Molitor
Carbon dioxide is the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, a subject of intense debate today, both for limitation of emissions and an increased sequestration. Forests are...
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Jun 1, 2012 | Article
Coating companies are constantly looking for novel ways to develop sustainable coatings that have a minimum impact on the environment. Some of the approaches industry has been using over the years...
May 2, 2012 | Article
Chemistry has long been a key enabler of sustainability. The advent of synthetic fertilizers has allowed the world to feed its growing population, lightweight composite materials have provided more...
Apr 2, 2012 | Article
A pattern is beginning to emerge in the trend in announcements of new technologies as can be seen from the following table which shows the number of news items recorded in the past three years since...
Apr 1, 2012 | Article
The United Nations issued the Brundtland Report in the 1980s that defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future...
Feb 1, 2012 | Article
Resin systems typically used in solvent-based coatings are incompatible with water due to the high surface tension (72 dyne/cm) of water. Therefore, replacing solvent-based coatings with low VOC...
Jan 30, 2012 | Article
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...
Dec 6, 2011 | Article
Under the current economic perspectives and the armies of black painters (offering, like Winston Churchill in 1940, "nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat"), it is a stimulating exercise to read...
Oct 10, 2011 | Article
The biotechnology world has lived for decades as a kind of sparring partner and niche competitor to petrochemical based chemicals. The principle seemed cemented that biosynthesis & biotechnology...
Jan 1, 2010 | Article
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...