Replacing solvent-based paints with greener, water-based counterparts sounds nice, but the performance of those alternatives just doesn’t cut it for demanding applications in the furniture or ...

With little more than a coat of paint, buildings could soon make the air around them cooler and harvest gallons of water directly from the atmosphere. Researchers at the University of Sydney in ...

In a step towards developing advanced materials for functional coatings, a research group has developed a technology that combines structural color coating with super water-repellent properties. The ...

Prolam has introduced a new hot-melt polyurethane reactive (PuR) coating for the underside of laminated trailer floors that the company claims eliminates the challenges of traditional water-based ...

From 2007 to 2012, the annual global compound growth rate of the coating industry in GDP was 4.3%, with a revenue of 110 billion USD for 2012. 1 Growth has since been on the rise due to the demand ...