Industry Trends

OCTOber 2023

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?

Sweet Embrace is Interpon Color of the Year 2024, Performance enhancing additives, Powder coatings market, and more. Find out what coating & resins journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

AkzoNobel Names Sweet Embrace as Interpon Color of the Year 2024
Coatings World

Sweet Embrace is a delicate shade of soft grey with a hint of violet and a subtle metallic effect that help us to feel comfortable.
Performance Enhancing Additives
Coatings World

Sustainability is a key driver for performance enhancing additives.
Powder Coatings Market
Coatings World

Technological advancements have enabled the introduction of novel powder coatings, which are resistant to fading.
Heidelberg Integrates Digital, Offset Printing with New Versafire
Ink World

The latest Versafire generation from Heidelberg offers systematically enhanced digital presses for the commercial sector.
Sherwin-Williams Releases 2024 Industrial Wood ColorMix Forecast
Coatings World

Sherwin-Williams presents its 2024 Industrial Wood ColorMix as a complement to residential trends released in August, syncing the wood finishes to wall paint to create a com-plete color offering. The four new palettes — Nature Inspired, Energetic Creativity, Se-rene Harmony and Dramatic Moods — will influence product development and emerging styles within the wood finishing industry for years ahead.
Vegetable Tannins as Chrome-Free Leather Tanning
Hindawi

The purpose of this study is to replace chrome tannins with ecofriendly vegetable tannins as an alternative solution to prevent the public health and the environmental pollution. Vegetable tannin was extracted from Cassia singueana bark using an aqueous extraction method and applied on sheep pickle pelt.
Sherwin-Williams Reveals 2024 Color of the Year, Upward SW 6239
Coatings World

Inspired by the relaxed blue hue, Sherwin-Williams partners with renowned French pastry chef Dominique Ansel to create the first-ever vegan Cronut.
New GARDCO Precision Gel Timers Boost Accuracy, Repeatability
Coatings World

Determines gel time of materials such as epoxy resins, adhesives, two component elastomers and paints.
International Coatings Re-Releases Paramount White 7041 Ink
Ink World

Paramount White screen ink is an ultra-low-bleed ink, specially engineered for 50/50 fabric blends and 100% polyester substrates.
Preparation of alcohol-resistant ink using polyester resin for thermal transfer ribbon
Emerald Group

The purpose of this study is to prepare thermal transfer ribbons with good alcohol resistance. A variety of alcohol-resistant thermal transfer inks were prepared using different polyester resins…
Effect of cerium on the microstructure and anti-corrosion performance of Al-Zn coatings

ScienceDirect

With the increasing application scope of aluminum alloys in the marine field, exploring the surface anti-corrosion technologies of aluminum alloys is becoming more and more important. In current industries, thermal spraying is generally used to prepare Alsingle bondZn coatings for surface protection.

Hempel Inaugurates Production Facilities in China

Coatings World

Hempel’s new production facilities in Zhangjiagang enhance capacity to serve marine, energy and infrastructure customers.

The Coatings Industry Will Re-Connect in Shanghai

Coatings World

CHINACOAT2023 will open its gates on Nov. 15-17 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), P.R. China. The exhibition covers 7.5 exhibition halls (Halls E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8 and E9), with a total gross exhibition area of more than 70,000 square meters.

Wacker Expands Specialty Silicone Production in China

chemeurope.com

Wacker Chemie AG is expanding its specialty silicone manufacturing capacities in China. A kick-off event at the Zhangjiagang site in Jiangsu Province marks the start of construction of several new production lines, where the globally operating chemical group will manufacture functional silicone flui…

Kurz Opens New Plant in Vietnam

Plastics Technology

The maker of decorative thin films invested 37 million euros in the new 60,000-m2 plant in Quy Nhơn, which joins regional production facilities in China and Malaysia.

DuPont Opens New Adhesives Manufacturing Facility

PR Newswire

DuPont today held a ceremony to officially open its new adhesives production facility in Zhangjiagang (ZJG), East China. The new facility will produce adhesives to serve customers in the transportation industry, primarily in lightweighting and fast-growing vehicle electrification applications.

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