AkzoNobel Announces First Engineering Class Grads

Global coatings company AkzoNobel recently announced that its first class of engineering students has graduated from the company’s North America Graduate Engineering Trainee (GET) program.

New Product Announcement: Antifouling Marine Coatings

Protective coatings manufacturer Tnemec Company, Inc. has announced the launch of its HullClad line of coatings, which the company says is designed to protect ships’ and vessels’ hulls in ha...

Tenaris Acquires Pipe Coatings Business

Global pipe manufacturer Tenaris recently announced the completion of its acquisition of infrastructure technology company Mattr’s pipe coating business unit.

Color in a Multicultural City

by Jill Pilaroscia

Does red mean strength, power, love? Prosperity, rage, death? Influences like politic...

The Ultimate Guide to Mixing Antimicrobial Coatings

by Emily Newton

Antimicrobial coatings can provide products with built-in resistance to microbial gro...

Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM have designed a coatings technology that could replace which chemicals in everyday products?

Photonic science company AssetCool has received funding to accelerate the rollout of its new photonic coatings, which are meant to cool down overhead what?

A runway at Reno-Tahoe International Airport was shut down due to surface scaling less than a year after the runway opened. While contractors and consultants are working to determine the cause, what do you believe could be the cause of this issue?

A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota created a catalyst to convert resources like trees and corn into acrylic acid and acrylates. Do you think conversion methods like this are the future of sustainability in the painting and coatings industry?

When a food plant runs 24/7 even during coating maintenance, tiny food particles floating in the air (e.g., sugar from sugar processing) in the plant can contaminate a prepared surface. How do you prevent such contamination, or identify it and remove it before applying the coating?

What kind of surface preparation prior to coating will be effective and at the same time economical for the aluminum window frames on a large commercial office building? The aluminum was coated originally with a baked-on fluoropolymer which has lost most of its gloss. Maintenance recoating will be with an air-dry fluoropolymer.

Coatings 101: Technology: A Primer for Newcomers and a Refresher for Seasoned Professionals

from JPCL, July 2022 ; by Brian Goldie, Technical Editor, JPCL

The first installment in the Coatings 101 series, this article provides a basic overv...

Investigating Failure

from JPCL, February 2018 ; by Rick Huntley and Cynthia O’Malley, KTA-Tator, Inc.

Airport Jet Fuel Piping Lining Issues

Advantages of FEVE Fluoropolymer Topcoats for New and Existing Bridges

In this 30 minute course, attendees will discuss the ability of FEVE fluoropolymer topcoats to resist UV degradation, corrosion and the ill effects of chemical exposure for both...

CoatingsTech

June 26 - June 27, 2023

MPI Commercial Coatings Summit

October 31 - November 1, 2022

DC 21 CAS Forum & ADI CAS Trailer Demo

May 5, 2022

Sponsored Content

Vision for the Future: Staying Ahead of Industry Changes

Architectural Coatings: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on architectural coatings.

Concrete: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on concrete coatings and maintenance.