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The power of powder coatings
On one hand, powder coatings are characterised by ever stricter quality requirements and the trend towards more extensive individualisation and, on the other hand, by increasing cost pressures. This...
PDA Europe 10th Annual Conference
November 15th 2016 (Brussels, Belgium) Ninety eight polyurea industry representatives from across Europe gathered at the PDA Europe Annual Conference and Exhibition from 8 to 9 November in Nice, France. PDA Europe, the Polyurea Development Association in Europe, has...
Frozen Solid
The demands on a coating for low temperature environments are rarely as challenging as on the Halley VI research station, now sitting on the 130 metre-thick Brunt Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Weddell Sea. Typical winter temperatures range from -20°C to -55°C. The ice...
Advanced spray pattern testing
As the result of increasing sensitivity and resolution of novel capacitive sensor array technology, designers working on applications in fluid and gas spray are now gaining valuable insight and information into particle impact, distribution and accumulation,...
Queen Mary gets a fresh lick of paint
C harity, Friends of TS Queen Mary rescued the ship from almost certain demise after she was found languishing in a dockyard on the Thames Estuary, several years after serving as a floating bar and restaurant in London. The charity raised £300,000, enabling her to be...
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New factory protection
World renowned British Motorsport and Advanced Technology business Prodrive is entering the last stages of its facility move across the road, to a new factory opposite their headquarters of 30 years in Banbury, UK. After being handed the keys to the new site in April...
Protecting London Wall Place
Sherwin-Williams has secured a further contract working on a major landmark development in London for the project London Wall Place. This follows projects for iconic buildings including The Shard, The Leadenhall Building, Tower Bridge, St Pancreas Station, Heathrow...
New offshore coating
PPG Protective & Marine Coatings has used the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2016 in Houston to showcase its new PHENGUARD SUBSEA coating system. The company claims its new PHENGUARD SUBSEA 610 and PHENGUARD SUBSEA 780 product combination is the ideal...
Industrial coatings sale
BASF and AkzoNobel have reached a general agreement on the sale of the industrial coatings business of BASF’s Coatings division to AkzoNobel for €475 million. The transaction would include technologies, patents and trademarks, as well as the transfer of two dedicated...
Lasting asset protection
Large industrial facilities and steel structures have a lot of surface area open to attack. Only several layers of an anti-corrosion coating can ensure that wind turbines, steel bridges and ships fulfil their purpose and pay off in the long run. Covestro has developed...
Four new coatings
Omnova Solutions introduced four new coatings products at the American Coatings Show, significantly expanding the company’s presence and portfolio for the specialty coatings market in North America. “Omnova’s continued growth in coatings is supported by a strong...
New lab setup
Austin Hayes Ltd. has recently launched its new 26 m2 (280ft2) research lab on site in Leeds, West Yorkshire, to support the company’s strategy vision for continuing its growth and expansion in the protective coating industry over the next decade and beyond. The new...
Feature: Tiny metal islands
Offshore rig operators are under pressure. With low oil prices, new rigs ordered during the boom years are sitting idle. Existing assets are being kept out as long as possible, so more on-site maintenance is needed. But on-site coating repairs to key sections are...