November 2019

Coatings World

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. will continue its year-long rollout of the company’s new COLOUR BLACK FW 310, the highest-jet Carbon Black available, at the 34th Biennial Western Coatings Symposium and Show (WCS).

European Coatings

Wood is a trending material. Not only for furniture but also all sorts of other goods and of course in architecture. We interviewed two experts about the latest trends and how coatings can improve the protection of the natural colour of wood.

Consult Myanmar

TOA-Chugoku Paints (TCP) has earmarked 500 million baht to construct its first overseas paint factory in Myanmar, expecting to capture demand from megaprojects. The new factory will produce two paint products — heavy-duty coating and marine paint — with a monthly capacity of 300 tonnes.

European Coatings

Recently, researchers presented a model for sorption hysteresis in hardened cement paste.

European Coatings

A recently published paper focuses on the development and validation of an algorithm for a surface inspection system, which improves the accuracy of detecting paint defects through an image processing system.

European Coatings

A fireproof composition based on ammonium polyphosphate and pentaerythritol with a number of functional additives was recently developed and studied.