The 2025 RadTech Annual Winter Meeting covered key developments in photoinitiators, FDA regulations, life cycle assessments, and sustainability initiatives for UV/EB technologies.
The new coatings use an electron beam or ultra-violet energy to convert a liquid coating into a fully cured solid finish in seconds, without any significant loss of thickness or weight.
Energy-cure coatings are expected to produce revolutionary changes in coil-centered industries, such as building materials, appliances, and HVAC. These advancements will raise the bar for more sustainable, energy-efficient, high-performance solutions, including formulations that offer durability for exterior applications and broader gloss ranges.
"In 2024, the RadTech Board and membership will continue educational efforts to not only encourage the development of new materials, processes, and applications, but to better inform policy makers, regulators, and the general public about the importance of UV+EB to advanced, responsible manufacturing," said Michael Gould, RadTech President, RAHN USA.
The applications of daylight fluorescent colorants are so diverse that an entire industry has developed to prepare and tailor these materials to be compatible with and to maximize their luminous performance across a range of product categories. Unlike conventional colorants, these materials are able to absorb shorter wavelengths of sunlight and then re-emit that light at longer wavelengths, producing a visual experience of color intensity above and beyond anything we expect to see from light.
Future Market Insights' half-yearly comparison analysis and review features insights into the market's various industrial and innovation factors including electronic industrial growth, innovative coating applications in the construction and automotive sectors, investments in the field of nanotechnology, and more.
The company announced the hiring of Leon Low as the new Financial Controller. Low brings 16 years of qualified experience in the finance world to Coval.
