Articles Tagged with ''biobased coatings''

While they only make up a tiny fraction of an end product, trace impurities can make up a large part of consumers’ perceptions.

This article discusses utilizing natural oil metathesis to create novel renewable building blocks that are beginning to reshape many chemical markets, including the coatings industry.

Lactide-based alkyd resins can help coatings formulators to meet new targets for lower VOC content and produce coatings with a reduced carbon footprint.

This company has developed a BPA-free coating based on acetoacetyl- modified soybean oil (Soy-PK) and demonstrated its potential application for coating food and beverage containers.

This application study shows that biobased SA can be used as a diacid to replace IPA and AA in a polyester resin for metal coatings.

Biobased polyols based on C18 diacid may be used to expand product offerings with renewable materials in applications such as automotive molded parts, hot melt adhesives, high-performance coatings and sports equipment.

The Rilsan® fine powders product line of biobased polyamide coating powders for the outdoor furniture market now includes two grey-colored (RAL 7021) grades designed for fluidized bed dipping and electrostatic spraying.

This article demonstrates the performance of biobased succinic acid in PUD and coating formulations.

The characteristics and performance of Eco-Sil harvested from rice hulls indicate that it is a cost-effective and environmentally acceptable replacement for fumed silica.

By using carefully selected renewable building block monomers, we can design polyester biopolyols with 100% renewable carbon content that can be used to produce high-performance UV-PUDs suitable for use in many coatings applications.