Industry Trends

December 2020

See what has been happening in Asia’s coating and resins industries over the last weeks. What are experts and industry magazines talking about?

What has been happening?

Digitally building up the construction industry, Coatings industry business confidence returning to pre-Covid levels, Thermochromic ink helps ensure higher safety standards for packaged food, and more. Find out what journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

Digitally building up the construction industry
Asian Correspondent

Despite restraints, the construction industry is on the cusp of a technology revolution which will reshape its future. Construction companies are now in a race to go digital, with the hope that technology will enhance profitability while also fending off competitors. The construction industry is well known for its resistance to change and has fallen well behind other industries in recent years.
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BCF: Coatings Industry Business Confidence Returns to Pre-Covid Levels
Ink World

However, still below the long-term average, BCF reports. Whilst decorative coatings have seen strong growth this year, sales in the printing inks and industrial coatings markets are down by between 15% and 20%.
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Thermochromic Ink Helps Ensure Higher Safety Standards for Packaged Food
Ink World

A thermochromic ink that changes color at high temperatures now offers food manufacturers a more reliable coding method, with a more obvious color change, to indicate correct sterilization of packaged food products. Designed for retort sterilization of filled cans or plastic pouches, the ink changes from black to blue when the food package reaches the correct temperature of between 115 and 125oC.
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Hyundai to begin EV production in Indonesia in 2022
Paul Tan’s Automotive News

According to news reports, Hyundai is set to begin manufacturing electric vehicles (EV) in Indonesia in 2022. The Korean automaker is presently constructing a new assembly plant in Cikarang, West Java, and this is expected to be completed next year, said Hyundai Motor Asia Pacific vice president and COO Lee Kang Hyun.
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Synthesis of carbon nanotube reinforced Al matrix composite coatings via cold spray deposition
ScienceDirect

The microhardness of the CNT/Al composite coating produced from SSBM powders reached around ~115 HV0.1, showing a significant improvement compared to the pure Al coating mainly due to the grain refinement and CNTs strengthening.
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Stardust Powder Coatings Develops Antiviral Coating
Coatings World

In March, Stardust Powder Coatings started the development and testing of coatings with antiviral properties, and has tested for the first time and with positive results an antiviral coating that can inhibit the human Coronavirus NL63.
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OrelTech Launches Nanoparticle-free Gold Ink
Ink World

Early next year, the company plans to launch a novel, application-based ink for devices with reflective electrodes. OTech Aurum gold ink has superior conductivity to all existing gold nanoparticle-based inks. The same device performance can be achieved by using up to 60% less material at the fraction of the production price.
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Clariant Playing Leading Role in Supporting Coatings Industry to Phase Out Lead in Paints
Coatings World

Clariant partners with a key United Nations Environment Program project to accelerate the phase-out of lead in paint. Last week marked the eighth International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, an initiative of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint, jointly led by the UN Environment Program and the World Health Organization, intended to draw attention to the need for action on lead paints and other sources of lead exposure.
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3M Wrap Film Series 2080 Wins PRINTING United Alliance 2020 Product of the Year
Ink World

3M Commercial Solutions Division announced that 3M Wrap Film Series 2080 received a PRINTING United Alliance 2020 Product of the Year Award for Media-Adhesive Back Vinyl. Open to all PRINTING United Alliance supplier members, the Product of the Year competition evaluates products that are, or will be, available for sale in 2020.
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Archroma Tops Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs List for Chemical Companies

Coatings World

Archroma was recently ranked No. 1 in the “industrial chemicals” list published by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) for driving transparency in their supply chain.

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Singapore awards first contract for international link
The Construction Index

The first civils contract has been awarded for a rapid transport link serving Singapore and Malaysia. The RTS Link is a rail shuttle service between the Singapore terminus at Woodlands North station and the Malaysia terminus at Bukit Chagar station in Johor Bahru. It will support a peak capacity of 10,000 passengers per hour in each direction.
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