Plenty of Novelties
Trends and innovations at the ACS 2024
Three exhibitors expand on trends and their focus at the American Coatings Show.
1. What trends do you expect for the American Coatings Show 2024?
Brendan Cullinan: Sustainability remains a topic of high interest and industry trends also show movement toward innovations on cationic coatings, resin-based waterborne matting agents in paints, corrosion inhibitors, pigment optimization, solvent systems related to VOCs, PFAS alternatives and more.
Nigel Atkinson: Sustainability is one of the main trends driving the industry today, and one that Arxada fully embraces. At ACS 2024, we will see this topic behind many of the discussions taking place. Arxada is at the forefront of innovation to serve sustainability objectives ensuring that our partners are able to reach their sustainability goals, satisfy the green requirements of end-use customers, and reduce overall carbon footprint. With our focus on planet, preservation, and people, we are committed to being a responsible corporate citizen for the benefit of customers, employees, neighboring communities, and the environment. We are focused on delivering better science to solve the world’s toughest preservation challenges. We innovate to achieve industry leading preservation performance while improving the environmental, health, and safety profiles of our products. Innovation will of course be another key theme at ACS, with leading technologies that push the boundaries of functionality and performance. As a global leader in preservation, Arxada is playing a major role in this innovation chain, committing fully to advancing the sustainability agenda of our industry and providing the best preservation solutions serving society’s needs, while delivering the quality, reliability, protection, and service life extension that paints and coatings end-users expect.
Richard Jenkins: We see three areas of focus: safer products and manufacturing, lowering carbon footprint industry wide, and moving closer to a true circular economy in coatings.
2. What will be your focus at the show?
Brendan Cullinan: As a distributor, we are focused on easing and balancing supply chain complexity to help customers with uncertainty and volatility by utilizing our value-added services, including blending, repacking and additional lab support. We are committed to building relationships with suppliers around the world and we are dedicated to investigating new, sustainable technologies that address ongoing trends including corrosion, PFAS, VOCs and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF).
Nigel Atkinson: We are leveraging our decades of experience in paints and coatings formulation and application, vast knowledge resources in microbiology, and expertise in regulatory affairs to deliver unique offerings to the market. At ACS 2024, we will share with visitors our technologies that have been developed to deliver sustainable preservation. Specifically, we will showcase our advanced dry-film preservatives, including our TIME controlled release technologies, which promote industry leading coatings and asset protection. We will also share information on our coatings performance additive solutions, which provide key functionality in both liquid and powder coatings. It’s all about efficiency through better science to achieve performance, economy, and less wasted material.
Richard Jenkins: Arkema will be focusing on presenting new sustainability innovation across our product offerings and in our manufacturing process, with an emphasis on:
- Eliminating substances of concern and hazardous air pollutants
- Integrating alternative feedstocks into production
- Reducing energy usage
- Improving the durability of products to allow users to do more with less
- Improving end-of-life management, including biodegradability, compostability and recyclability
3. What are some of the novelties you will be presenting?
Brendan Cullinan: With our sourcing organization, our teams can offer customized solutions for every need by utilizing our established network of relationships worldwide. We offer a full line of chemical distribution with limited supply chain restraints and competitive pricing. Our value-added services include the capability to formulate new blends or produce current blends with over 50 sites in North America. We can also repack your products, both liquid and dry, as well as provide additional lab support.
Nigel Atkinson: We will be sharing information on our new “Polyphase 7026 & 8089” high-concentration dry-film preservatives. These advanced anti-fungal and anti-algal products pack more power per pound for optimum efficacy from less product. Customers can benefit from improved product performance, reduced inventory, and less product to ship, thereby reducing carbon footprint. Our outdoor exposure sites and microbiology labs around the world offer behind-the-scenes technical service used to help ensure effective performance in the real world. Combined with our TMMA plant hygiene consultative service, we can help optimize preservation efficiency. Our regulatory support team is also at the disposal of customers to globally ensure compliance in markets around the world. Visitors to Arxada booth #1538 are invited to learn more about our innovative technology and the benefits of partnering with us. In the meantime, you can visit arxada.com for more information, and to read our sustainability report.
Richard Jenkins:
- An extensive portfolio of resins for waterborne, high solids and powder coatings.
- State-of-the-art unique additives for the coating industry. Among many others, we will highlight our latest innovation to improve further leveling and dirt pick up without impacting low- and mid-shear viscosity with our new unique highly Newtonian polyurethane thickener for waterborne paints and coatings, “Coapur XS 12,“ as well as our solutions with lower carbon footprint based on bio-based feedstocks with our biobased polyurethane thickeners and biomass acrylic thickeners and dispersants and more sustainable solutions.
- A range of PVDF products, including: “Kynar 500 PVDF“ resin for factory-applied coil and spray coating, “Kynar Aquatec PVDF” latex for field-applied and factory-applied architectural coatings, and “Kynar Aquatec PVDF” latex for field-applied and factory-applied protective coatings
- Molecular Sieves used in a variety of polyurethane and polyaspartic CASE applications where a high performance desiccant is required to avoid bubbles that would be detrimental to the polyurethane finished look or performance, as well as a way to control the pot life of the finished product. These include “SiliporiteSA1720” desiccant powder, “Siliporite NK30AP” desiccant powder, “Siliporite NK10AP” desiccant powder and “Siliporite NK20AP” desiccant powder.
- A range of UV/LED/EB solutions, including: UV/LED-curable resins and additives, bio-based UV/LED acrylate and methacrylate resins, development of the UV/EB coil coating technology and energy-curable solutions for EV dielectric battery coatings.
