Year: 2019

Canadian cleantech company Ecomaterials is pioneering use of converting steel slag into a replacement for traditional blast media, with 200,000 tons of a new material being shipped from Asia to Canada and more to come […]

Leading UK high pressure water jetting equipment manufacturer, Hughes Pumps, is delighted to announce the expansion of its sales team, welcoming Dan Galley as Export Sales Manager for the Middle East region. Dan joins the […]

A leading galvanizing business has completed a multi-million pound project to create the biggest bath in Yorkshire. Humber Galvanizing has increased capacity by as much as 50 per cent thanks to a major expansion that […]

Watching paint dry just got interesting. That’s because AkzoNobel is developing a hi-tech coating which paints itself onto surfaces by harnessing energy from daylight. Once a small amount has been manually applied, the pioneering coating […]

Protecting wooden building facades against fire just got easier – and more efficient – following the launch of a new coatings system which has been specially engineered by AkzoNobel. The fast-drying Sikkens system is the […]

Work to renovate an historic Victorian landmark has taken a major step forward – thanks to help from a galvanizing business. Volunteers have begun a long-term project to restore the 130-year-old Queen’s Pier, in Ramsey, […]

Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) has launched a next-generation multifunctional additive, Ethylan EF-60, which enables formulators to ensure low temperature storage stability of VOC-free water-borne latex paint products. “Consumer demand is driving the industry to […]

HMG Paints Ltd, the UK’s largest Independent paint manufacturer, has announced the launch of a revolutionary, one visit application, commercial vehicle topcoat. Acrythane 4G is a high gloss, high solids acrylic polyurethane coating developed to […]

by Perry Poppelaars – MD of Sustainable Coating Solutions Ltd – Distributor for Steelpaint in the UK My coatings career started in 1984 with Devoe Coatings, an American manufacturer of marine coatings and the first […]