August 2021

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

There exists a great difference of the photocatalytic degradation efficiency between nanoscaled TiO2 modified-emulsified asphalt applied as the fog sealing under the indoor and outdoor environment. Much efforts have been made by many investigators to study this issue. However, most of them focus on the ideal condition, ignoring the degradation efficiency examination of TiO2 in the actual engineering practice.

Coatings World

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A., a leading global supplier of specialty and high-performance carbon black, has partnered with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in a project to develop and produce renewable carbon black.

Additive Manufacturing

Parent companies, Cargill and GC, have authorized NatureWorks to invest in excess of $600 million in the new fully integrated 75,000 ton per year facility, which includes lactic acid, lactide, and polymer manufacturing sites planned for construction beginning in the second quarter of 2022

BusinessWorld

Printing industry sales declined 53% throughout the pandemic, further dampening demand as companies shift to digital advertising, the Board of Investments (BoI) said. “Like the other industries, the printing industry was not spared by the COVID-19 pandemic and is still beset by their customers’ shift to digitization, digital transformation of industries,” BoI Executive Director Ma. Corazon H. Dichosa said in a virtual event Monday.
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Manila Bulletin

A Chemical Control Order (CC0) banning lead, a toxic substance, in paints promulgated by the government through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has been crowned one of the five winners for this year’s Future Policy Award (FPA), which is also known as the “Oscar on best policies.

European Coatings

Investor Advent sells resins producer Allnex to PTT Global Chemical Public Company for allegedly EUR 4 billion. Allnex, a supplier of specialty chemicals, offering a broad range of industrial resins including powder coating resins, energy curable resins, water-borne resins, additives and crosslinkers for use on wood, metal, plastic and other surfaces, is becoming part of PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (GC). GC is a subsidiary PTT Public Company, a multinational chemical company based in Thailand.