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Uniform and consistent color is essential to achieve the impression of a high-quality finish and to avoid customer complaints.

XPS is a powerful analytical tool that can provide quantitative, spatially resolved, chemical-state analysis of surfaces and thin films.

Formulating high-performance, waterborne 2K epoxy-amine primers with properties equal to or better than commercially available primers is quite possible.

This issue of PCI features the 17th annual listing of the top coatings manufacturers in the world. With the constraints of a more compact magazine and the continued consolidation of the coatings industry, the editors decided this would be the year to cut the list down to the Top-10 global leaders and the Top-25 North American companies.

Owners of job shop platers, anodizers and coaters need a sense of urgency in their shops to survive today’s economy

An intimate knowledge of the products, their properties and application procedures, and the conditions under which they were applied are necessary for those handling customer complaints.

An important consideration when selecting green products is what criteria to use to evaluate which paints do the best job of minimizing VOCs in indoor air.

One of the most overlooked sources of profit in a paint manufacturing organization is in the existing business processes.

Finding a barnacle inhibitor that will have any remote chance of being commercial must meet a major hurdle – the cost.

A new “green” exterior aircraft painting system has shown corrosion resistance comparable to processes using chromated pretreatment and primers.