TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Coatings Acrylic Coatings Powder Coatings American Coatings Show
Arkema will showcase a wide range of solutions and technologies in support of its customers’ commitment to decarbonization, more circularity and other sustainability goals at the American Coatings Show 2024. It is to be scheduled from April 30th - May 2nd, in Indianapolis, Indiana at Booth #1130.
Products on Display
Arkema will showcase a wide range of sustainability related initiatives, most recently including:
Renewable Based and Lower Carbon Footprint Materials
Bio-based segregated solutions, including
UV curable,
waterborne resins and
additives featuring up to 97 percent bio-content.
Bio-Mass balance solutions: Arkema is pursuing ISCC+ certification at its
acrylic production sites in North America – to complement efforts in other geographies – as part of the ambition to expand its bio-attributed mass balance resins and additives progressively worldwide for all major coating technologies including UV/LED/EB, waterborne,
high-solid and powders.
Recycled-based solutions, including accelerated development of rPET-based materials, with up to 40 percent recycled content, for
powder coating applications.
Decarbonizing the Built Environment
Lower energy intensive solutions, with new offerings for
UV/EB coil coatings that offer up to 60 percent energy savings during application, as well as
powder resins enabling low to ultra low-temperature (as low as 135°C) cure coating applications.
Enhancing Efficient New Mobility
Solvent-free and lower energy intensive coating solutions for protecting battery cells, including UV/LED specialty materials for improved electrical insulation, powder resins for intumescent fire-retardant coatings and waterborne solutions for liquid applied sound deadeners (LASDs).
Reducing Energy Consumption of Buildings
Improved solutions for cool surface coatings, including
resins and
additives that enable up to 30 percent saving in air conditioning and ultra-durable material for building facades designed to extend the lifespan of coatings, reduce costs and improve carbon footprint.
Improved building efficiency with molecular sieves for insulated glass flexible spacers that can improve energy savings by 95 percent vs. non-insulated glass.
Supporting Community Health and Well-Being
Solutions for living comfort, including resins, additives and systems designed to improve safety and provide high performance across a wide range of coating and related applications, including new low migration UV/LED curable systems for packaging
inks and
coatings and waterborne isocyanate-free systems for 2K industrial applications.
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We will focus on three key areas at this year’s show,” said Eric Kaiser, a US regional business president for Coatings at Arkema. “
The first is to accelerate the development of more sustainable solutions to meet customer expectations for efficient building and indoor wellbeing. This includes health, protection, durability, cooler buildings along with user-friendly application with minimal environmental impact."
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The second is performance - supporting the industry to adopt more sustainable solutions with performance levels better than those they use today. And the last is partnership - true change will require input and collaboration from companies across the coatings value chain,” added Kaiser.
Focus on Sustainable Technology Advances
Arkema researchers will present multiple technical papers dedicated to sustainability:
Tuesday April 30
1:30-2:00 pm, Low-VOC, solvent-free resin development for UV/EB cured coil coatings, Elaine Ruiz
Wednesday, May 1
9:30-10:30 am, Advances in 1K PVDF/acrylic hybrid dispersions and its applications, Wei Wang
3:30-4:00 pm, Improving sustainability of high-performance water-based DTM coatings, Jeffrey Arendt
5:00-5:30 pm, Building performance exterior acrylics to master regulatory challenges, Mary Chervenak
6:00-6:30 pm, Energy-curable solutions for low-VOC dielectric EV-battery coatings, Saeid Biria
Five Spotlights
In addition, Arkema experts will host five ‘spotlights’ on the show floor stage:
Tuesday, April 30
10:40-10:55 am, Flagship coating solutions to advance sustainability, Helene Pernot
1:40-1:55 pm, Enhancing your building’s sustainability profile with long-life coatings, Anna Sanchez-Fischer
Wednesday, May 1
11:20-11:35 am, Mass Balance solutions to accelerate the shift toward more circular solutions, Helene Pernot
11:40-11:55 am, The path forward to safer 2K paints, Frank Cogordan
Thursday, May 2
10:00-10:15 am, New pure associative and Newtonian HEUR polyurethane thickener for water-based systems, Haksu Lee
Source: Arkema