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The surface finishing industry is no stranger to change. Many companies are looking to reduce costs and improve efficiency throughout 2024, while also placing a heavy focus on technology enhancements and sustainable practices.

This article examines the physical properties of polyurethanes and polyureas, their differences, and a technology review with benefits and drawbacks of sub-coating classes.

Digitalization has the potential to drastically transform the coatings industry, allowing for better knowledge management, accelerated innovation, and improved data security, while reducing product launch time to market. Digital transformation through AI, ML, and PI strives to bring innovative coating solutions in a sustainable, responsible, and accessible way.

As coatings industry technology advances, artificial intelligence plays a major role in the various developments. People must use it strategically, and be willing to invest time and effort into their attempts. When that happens, the results are so impressive that they could change the industry forever.

A global technology company has opted to use Dürr’s EcoBell rotary atomizer for painting plastic parts at its facility in Hungary. Mounted on a Kawasaki robot, the atomizer will provide multiple benefits including efficiency enchancement, reduced costs, and lower consumption of paint.

As the aerospace (AS) industry pushes for next-generation surface coating technologies to protect materials exposed to harsh air and space environments, coatings manufacturers dive deep to provide higher-performing coatings. The addition of additives to both existing and emerging technologies provides coating manufacturers with a path to innovate for these modern and changing times.

Global industries continue to embrace digitalization at an ever-increasing speed. PCI’s Chief Editor, Kristin Johansson, interviewed an online chemical marketplace to gain insight surrounding digital transformation in the coatings industry.

The coatings formulation process looks a lot like it did 30 years ago, with spreadsheets, notebooks, and time-consuming rounds of hands-on testing. By combining powerful data and decades of knowledge, digital coatings formulation platforms help to enhance the formulation process, streamline testing, improve the customer experience, and more, revolutionizing the industry.

The new line of coatings is designed to protect ship and vessel hulls in the harshest underwater marine environments, and is specially formulated for effective fouling prevention. 

This case study shows how one company offered thermal insulation as a solution to lower the surface temperature, prevent burns, and halt further corrosion of a tank at a lubricant plant.