A new blog at www.pcimag.com highlights industry insights.

This is our first Green Issue, which focuses on perspectives on our industry’s role in sustainability and new technologies designed with the environment in mind.

A variety of technologies are under development, including waterborne polyolefin and alkyd dispersions, acrylic coatings for metal, isocyanate-free polyurethane coatings and BPA-free can coatings.

The 42nd Annual International Waterborne, High Solids and Powder Coatings Symposium offered many new technologies.

Coatings manufacturers are highlighting several new products at the North American International Auto Show that are designed to help global automakers in a variety of ways.

The regulatory landscape is ever-changing and can be overwhelming. PCI is kicking off 2015 with regulatory information and updates.

At the end of each year I like to look back at all of the events that made news headlines over the previous 12 months. I thought it might be fun to do the same with the coatings industry, so here is a brief review of what happened this year.

This is our annual Emerging Technologies issue, in which we feature news items, articles and profiles of some of our industry’s newest and most innovative research.

Shale gas was a hot topic at this year’s CTT event.

Coatings can be found among the 800-year-old primitive dwellings at Mesa Verde.