Kristin Johansson

This new column addresses problems that coatings formulators face, and how to solve them.

A wrap up of the 43rd Annual Future of Coatings Under Study (FOCUS) Conference in Troy, MI, with a Keynote Address by Jill Seebergh, Senior Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company, who discussed technologies and challenges for exterior painting of commercial airplanes.

A wrap up of some of the technology on display at the 2018 American Coatings Show.

The results of a survey conducted at the 2018 American Coatings Conference involving topics such as the technologies and markets coatings companies find most important, drivers for R&D, hot topics and regulations.

A recap of the annual WACKER press workshop in Germany

A short recap of the 2018 Waterborne Symposium, as well as an introduction of a new column in PCI magazine called The PC Kitchen.

Paint manufacturers can help solve the global mosquito crisis.

A reader preference study and a December article in Folio notes that print magazines are still important to readers and media buyers.

This article includes a brief description of what a handful of companies exhibited at ChinaCoat 2017.

Economic sentiment remains strong globally, and is expected to remain so through 2018. Demand for TiO2 is robust, with both a strong housing market and healthy automobile sales. TiO2 demand growth for 2017 is forecast at around 2%, with 6.1 million tonnes in demand for 2017-2018.