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PPG

Designed to reflect maximum light back to its source, PPG ENVIROCRON™ LUM coating is a proprietary and patent-pending breakthrough technology. While liquid-based retroreflective coatings are commonly used to increase the visibility of pavement markings and street signs, this coating is the first-ever retroreflective powder coating. Using a formulation with embedded glass beads, the single-layer coating refracts light and retroreflects it directly back to a vehicle’s driver to enhance visibility. The coating delivers a non-solvent solution with high transfer efficiency, and provides exceptional scratch and mar resistance.

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Retroreflective powder Coating

Featured Product

Digital Labels

Blue Pigment

Feed and Closure System

Ultra-High-Shear Mixer

Charles Ross & Son Co.

A ROSS X-Series Inline Ultra-High-Shear Mixer model HSM-409XSHD-125 is a CIP-capable sanitary mixer featuring a type-316 stainless steel mixing chamber, a 150-psig jacket for cooling and heating up to 250 °F, and an X-5 Series 9” diameter AL6XN stainless steel rotor/stator that operates up to 5,700 rpm (13,430 feet/min tip speed). The X-Series mix head is a patented design made up of concentric rows of intermeshing teeth — product enters at the middle of the stator and travels outward through the radial channels.

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Shepherd Color Co.

A specialty Cobalt Aluminate Blue 20G599, Max Chroma Blue reportedly offers the maximum chromaticity possible compared to other blue pigments when matching colors. It is a C.I. Pigment Blue 28 with worldwide registrations and a broad range of regulatory approvals. Anticipated uses include high-performance coatings such as coil and extrusion, automotive, industrial, architectural, powder, and other coatings. Benefits include: more red than comparable products, more chromatic masstone color, high temperature stability, compatibility with special-effect pigments, and excellent inherent durability for exterior applications.

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Tecnopails

The Matrix is a new feed and closure filling-line series, with options for a specific line dedicated for integration with Rexson’s ColorPoint paint dispenser. A robust system, it is capable of expanding from manual through to fully automatic solutions. It is easily configured through a variety of adjustable modules. One such module is the Matrix+Rexson/Colorpoint created especially for integration with IM GROUP’s “Easypaint” solution.

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Springfield Solutions

DIGICAN® is a full-coverage digital label applied seamlessly to a can, giving the appearance of a printed can without the disadvantages of conventional print. The latest packaging solution features a high-quality, full-coverage digital label that is first applied to the flat tinplate blank, and then seamed into the top and bottom of the tin. The label bleeds into the seams, giving the appearance of a fully printed tin. Benefits include zero MOQs, flexibility when ordering, and reduced costs and storage requirements.

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Interior design, Property, Window, Plant, Building, Wood, Shade, Orange, Architecture, Floor

Land vehicle, Automotive lighting, Car, Tire, Wheel, Grille, Hood

Low-VOC Additive

Decorative Flooring Coatings

Safety glove, Sports equipment, Human body, Helmet, Cloud, Window

Input device, Material property, Gadget, Font

Thickener

Carbon Black Guide

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A.

Featuring 34 of Orion’s most popular carbon blacks for coatings, the “Carbon Black Guide” gives paint formulators a visual sense of the shades they can achieve with different grades. Color chips in the guide show the shades each grade imparts in three coatings types — solid, white blend and alkyd enamel — and details relevant coloristic properties. The guide will also be useful to R&D teams as they work to optimize the applications of each grade and develop new ones.

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The Sherwin-Williams Co.

Available in the U.K. and across Europe, The Acrydur™ range offers decorative systems with colored quartz aggregates and flake chippings that create multi-layer floor systems with full curing in just one hour, even at low temperatures. Acrydur methyl methacrylate-based products and systems offer high durability, temperature resistance and UV stability. The complete product range includes primers, flexible membranes, bodycoats and topcoats that are used together to create flexible, multi-colored systems incorporating anti-slip textures.

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Nouryon

Bermocoll® FLOW cellulose ether is a sustainable product that combines the flow and leveling properties of an associative synthetic thickener with the stability of a cellulose thickener. It is soluble in water and delivers an optimal balance of sag resistance and leveling along with improved spatter resistance and hiding compared to paint systems made with standard thickeners. Bermocoll FLOW is suitable for low-VOC paint formulations and airless spray applications, providing a sustainable alternative for both interior and exterior decorative paints.

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Michelman

Michem® Guard 400 is an APEO-free and low-VOC multifunctional water-based additive that imparts improved scrub resistance, abrasion resistance and superior stain resistance in indoor architectural paints. It provides effective matting in a liquid additive, reducing the need for dust mitigation and worker PPE. It is also convenient and easy to use.

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