Articles Tagged with ''innovation''

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Covestro Announces Start-Up Challenge Winners

With the program, Covestro aims to promote creativity and entrepreneurial thinking among its nearly 16,000 employees.
March 2, 2018

Covestro recently announced that Marc Schreiber, Anna-Leona Breidbach, Axel Schmidt and Holger Mundstock are the winners of its Start-Up Challenge.


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Indianapolis American Coatings Show

Indianapolis to Host American Coatings Show

March 1, 2018
At the last American Coatings Show event in 2016, more than 9,100 industry attendees and 559 exhibitors shared knowledge about recent developments in raw materials, laboratory and production equipment, testing and measuring equipment, and services for the coatings industry.
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Nanomaterials in the Workplace

Where do adhesives and sealants manufacturers’ responsibilities lie when nanomaterials are used in the production process?
Ian Marshall Ben Grebot Caroline Raine
March 1, 2018
In a recent survey, the UK’s National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC) asked its clients and stakeholders whether they or their employees were concerned of the risk that nanomaterials may pose to their workforce. Almost a quarter of responders to the question replied that they were.
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Editor's Memo

Travel Season is Approaching, and We're Looking Forward to the American Coatings Show and Conference and the ASC Annual Spring Convention and Expo

The 2018 American Coatings Show and Conference takes place April 9-11 in Indianapolis, while Miami will host the ASC Annual Spring Convention and Expo from April 23-25.
Teresa McPherson
March 1, 2018
We’re previewing two key industry events in this issue: the American Coatings Show and Conference and the ASC Annual Spring Convention and Expo.
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Reversing for Recycling

A research team found that taking center stage in making this possible are ferromagnetic nanoparticles in thermoplastic adhesives, using electromagnetic energy.
Joan Mantini
Joan Mantini
February 28, 2018

A multi-year research program has made an effort that has yielded surprisingly effective results in its quest to develop reversible adhesive joints that can be debonded and rebounded, not just once, but multiple times.


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Geckos Help Mankind Defy Gravity

Currently no materials exist that could allow people to scale walls or transverse ceiling as effortlessly as the gecko.
Joan Mantini
Joan Mantini
February 14, 2018

The unique toe pads of the gecko are being researched once again by scientist, but this time it is in the hopes that one day it can be used to help defy gravity for mankind. 


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