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  • ColorReader Pro Brings Greater Efficiencies to Sherwin-Williams Powder Coatings Customers

    Sherwin-Williams recently purchased Datacolor ColorReader Pro for their Color Express™ Powder Program to improve their customers’ powder finishing productivity.
    Sponsored released by Datacolor 01.27.20
  • Central Asia Begins to Address Coatings Safety Issues

    Central Asia Begins to Address Coatings Safety Issues

    The situation with coating safety in Central Asian countries is alarming, with no real efforts being taken to properly address it, local environmentalists admitted during the IPEN Regional workshop on lead pollution in the countries of Eastern Europe…
    Vladislav Vorotnikov, Russia Correspondent 01.20.20
  • Raw Material Issues In Indian Paint Industry

    Raw Material Issues In Indian Paint Industry

    Even under the best of circumstances, raw materials represent a near-constant headache for paint and coating producers. With Middle East Asia simmering with tensions and a global trade war growing more intense, volatile raw material prices have posed…
    Yogender Singh, India, Asia-Pacific Correspondent 01.20.20
  • Lanxess Continues Latin America Investment Drive

    Lanxess Continues Latin America Investment Drive

    Lanxess announced a new investment in Brazil that will increase its manufacturing presence in that country, as well as the region, permitting local sourcing for a growing demand for biocidal additives in the paint and coatings market. The acq…
    Charles W. Thurston, Latin America Correspondent 01.20.20
  • Europe’s OEM Automotive Coatings Market Expands

    Europe’s OEM Automotive Coatings Market Expands

    Europe’s OEM automotive sector has been experiencing a spate of investments in new and expanded automated paint shops. Due to the car sector’s leadership in the development of product and process technologies, the advances in paint app…
    Sean Milmo, European Correspondent 01.20.20
  • M&A - Engaging Outside Services During the M&A Process (Part 2 of 2)

    M&A - Engaging Outside Services During the M&A Process (Part 2 of 2)

    “Buyer beware” is a catch phrase that has meaning for most of the activities that accompany everyday life. In the M&A process, this can work the other way as well – “Seller beware.”  In the CASE markets, as with…
    Gary Shawhan , Contributing Editor 01.20.20
  • Development of Superior Blocked High-Performance Prepolymers Utilizing Low Monomer Technology

    Development of Superior Blocked High-Performance Prepolymers Utilizing Low Monomer Technology

    George Brereton, Zhenya Zhu, Polina Ware, and Gerald King, Lanxess Corporation, Naugatuck, CT, USA, and Lanxess Corporation, Latina Italy 01.20.20
  • Pigments Update

    Pigments Update

    Global Market Insights predicts the pigments market will reach $20 billion by 2025.
    Anthony Locicero, Associate Editor 01.20.20
  • Interior Coatings Market

    Interior Coatings Market

    A healthy economy, robust housing market and a growing middle class in emerging regions are driving the market for interior coatings.
    Kerry Pianoforte, Editor 01.20.20

  • Datacolor ColorReader – The Power Tool for Powder Coatings

    Choosing the correct color is challenging and finding the right match quickly can be the difference between making the sale or not.
    Sponsored released by Datacolor 01.06.20
  • Test & Development Center Tour

    Test & Development Center Tour

    A Walk Through Tour of our Test & Development
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  • Three Roll Mills - Mixer in Action

    Three Roll Mills - Mixer in Action

    How the Three Roll Mill Works
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  • High Shear Mixers Overview

    High Shear Mixers Overview

    Available in batch and inline designs, many popular laboratory and production models are available from stock.
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  • Biotechnology Meets Coatings Preservation

    Biotechnology Meets Coatings Preservation

    Enhancing and Reducing Biocide Use While Expanding Markets
    Steve McDaniel, Brittney M. McInnis, Jonathan D. Hurt, , Lisa K. Kemp, Tyler W. Hodges 12.11.19
  • Powder Coatings Market

    Powder Coatings Market

    Powder coatings provide a more durable finish than liquid paints can offer.
    Anthony Locicero, Associate Editor 12.11.19