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Jun 26, 2019 | Industry News
Adding a “self-healing” polymer coating to the top of a PSC can radically reduce how much lead it discharges into the environment. This gives a strong boost to prospects for commercializing the...
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Jun 18, 2019 | Product News
Ascend Performance Materials will present two newly introduced high-purity grades of its Hexatran™ and FlexaTram™-DAM high-performance amines for the paints and coatings industry. They are effective...
May 28, 2019 | Product News
Hempel has announced that it is launching a new epoxy primer for heavy duty equipment and trucks. Its low VOC content is better for the environment, safer for the applicators and meets all...
Mar 14, 2019 | Industry News
Hexion has named Brenntag as its distribution partner for its Epoxy Specialty and Base Epoxy Resins and Intermediates businesses in the United States and Canada. Epoxy-based surface coatings are...
Mar 13, 2019 | Product News
Ascend Performance Materials will debut new high-purity grades of high-performance amines for the paints and coatings industry. They act as Epoxy curing agents to improve the workability and heat...
Jan 22, 2019 | Industry News
Researchers have turned used coffee grounds into a flame retardant. By treating coffee waste and mixing it with epoxy resin, the team were able to leverage the slow-burning properties of coffee to...
Jan 11, 2016 | Article
By Sreeparna Das
Almost all the food and beverage cans feature epoxy resins in the form of protective linings for a variety of canned foods and beverages and as a coating on metal lids for glass jars and bottles...
Nov 5, 2012 | Article
By Ben van Leeuwen
The market penetration of Epoxy high-solid coatings has been facilitated by the fact that many industrial users tend to view this high-solid technology as a logical extension of the conventional...
Sep 10, 2012 | Article
By Edward M. Petrie
The concept of microencapsulation has interested coatings, adhesive, and sealant (CAS) formulators for some time. Most applications that will come immediately to the formulator’s mind involve the...
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...