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Ian Spreadborough, Co-founder and Director at innovative technology company, IOBAC, lifts the lid on this game-changing magnetic flooring technology and the benefits that it can offer. Have you thought much about your flooring recently? Although we engage with it...

White paint doesn’t look clean for long. Yet ship coatings of a darker hue absorb more heat, increase the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) requirement and, consequently, electrical load, resulting in higher fuel consumption and emissions. So, what the...

Tranquil Dawn is AkzoNobel’s Color of the Year for 2020. The culmination of extensive trend research by experts around the world, it’s designed to capture the essence of what makes us human as the dawn of a new decade arrives. A delicate, fluid shade somewhere between...

If you were one of last year’s 28.5 million cruise passengers worldwide, there is a good chance you walked on a deck coating made and installed by Dutch specialist Bolidt. Bolidt is the established leader in the cruise industry, and delights in pushing the boundaries...

The irresistible itch to innovate has resulted in AkzoNobel developing a scratch-resistant powder coating for the architectural market in both matt and satin finishes. Responding to customer demand, the company got to work and has now added the pioneering dual...

The Surface Treatment global business unit of the Coatings division of BASF, operating under the Chemetall brand, has started construction of its surface treatment site in the Dushan Port Economic Development Zone of Pinghu, Zhejiang province, China. The new site is...

The Steel Curtain roller coaster, which recently opened in the new Steelers Country section of Pittsburgh’s historic Kennywood Park, features PPG coatings that include one in a Steelers Yellow colour The coaster track, structure and cars are finished with coatings...

China recently launched its first domestically built polar icebreaker, Xue Long 2, and to help protect it from harsh Arctic and Antarctic conditions, they turned to an industry-leading coatings solution supplied by AkzoNobel. Purpose-built to cope with thick ice...

Nouryon will double capacity at its surfactants plant in Stenungsund, Sweden to support the growth of several existing products as well as new sustainable technologies for markets including oil and gas, lubricants and fuels, and asphalt. The €12-million expansion and...

HMG Paints, the UK’s largest independent coatings manufacturer, have now introduced a range of military standard paint systems in direct response to the UK MODs introduction of Def Stan 80-225. The new standard, which was introduced towards the end of 2018 and...

Offshore oil and gas operators have to cope with wildly fluctuating economic conditions, so the last thing they need to worry about is corrosion problems. Demands for 20-year corrosion protection, with the minimum amount of maintenance, are now common in the upstream...

Richard Stratton, Principal at Advanced Coating Solutions, lifts the lid on why traditional insulating materials don’t work and can contribute to corrosion under insulation (CUI). There are many historical coating/corrosion/temperature differential problems associated...

Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) has announced the retirement of Joseph F. Harrington after 25 years with Advanced Polymer Coatings. In 1994 he was approached by Don Keehan, Chairman of Advanced Polymer Coatings, to further develop the Marine Coatings industry with...

Nouryon has made a series of investments at its metal alkyls plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands to improve efficiency and increase capacity. The projects will enable the company to continue meeting growing demand from customers in the polymer industry and improve...