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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...
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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
By Jean-Pierre Molitor
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...
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
By Terence Kenneth
Fast-track your search for bio-based raw materials (rosin esters, proteins, starch…) to formulate environmentally friendly inks while complying with industry regulations. Terence Kenneth (Ink...
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
By Arno Schut
Map new development opportunities for your functional coatings in today’s market by reviewing trends in Smart Coatings along with associated companies to watch and related regulations! Arno Schut...