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Optimal Prime: How Powder is Transforming Primers on Wood/MDF
Perhaps you’ve read about the revolution that is taking over the wood finishes market? Efficient, technically excellent, with gorgeous aesthetics and an enviable environmental footprint – advancements in powder coatings mean that wood finishers now have powder technology available to them.
Start the year sustainably - easy EC switches
In our Powder by Design newsletter, we have touched on embodied carbon and why it is an important consideration in building design. While operational carbon can be impacted over the life of the structure via new technologies and retrofits that improve energy efficiency, embodied carbon is essentially fixed once the building is erected. It can contribute to approximately half of the carbon footprint of the structure over its life. As the global design community continues to focus more on meeting the sustainable design goals for 2030, reducing embodied carbon is becoming a key focus for designers.
Color Trends 2022-23
Our sister brand, Polychem Coatings, launched the 2022-23 powder coating color trend palettes.
3 Simple Steps to Achieving the Perfect Palate for Metal Interiors
1. Choose performance. So often when thinking about coatings we think only of color – that is what the eye sees after all. However, it’s worth deciding if you need any specific performance characteristics from your coating, - such as weathering, corrosion protection - before you get too far down the line.
Looking to reduce embodied carbon?
The World Green Building Council issued a report in 2019 stating that the built environment contributes to 39% of global emissions. In the past decade the building industry has focused heavily on reducing operational carbon. Initiatives like net- zero and LEED have resulted in a lower carbon footprint of the overall built- environment. In practice these initiatives have uncovered new opportunities for action. The materials and the value chains of those materials that are used to construct buildings have their own carbon footprint- and it is significant. It is estimated that 11% of global emissions can be traced back to the carbon footprint of the materials used to construct the built environment.
Super Hero, Super Durable?
When to use a Super Durable Powder Coating
Tough, durable, strong and steadfast are common traits associated with all manner of super heroes, but they’re also commonly associated with super durable powder coatings too.
IFS Coatings Open Warehouse on Canada East Coast
IFS Coatings today announced the opening of a new powder coating warehouse in Montreal, QC, Canada, which will serve the east coast of Canada. The new facility will provide access to a huge selection of powder coatings and customer specific stock program products will be held at the warehouse, ensuring quick, flexible delivery and easy access for IFS customers.
What's in a superior performance coating?
Coatings are an important part of exterior design. They offer protection to the underlying substrate or building material, but also add to the design itself through color, texture, or special effects. Exterior coatings are also designed to perform; high quality resins, pigments and other ingredients combine to deliver important technical elements such as color and gloss retention, corrosion protection and more. Fluoropolymer coatings are the ultimate in exterior performance.
The Surprising Effect of Covid on Rebar Trials…
Covid has changed the world in many different ways over the last 18 months or so. In an industry with clear processes and that’s perhaps change adverse, who would have thought it has also changed the way rebar coating trials are run. It has, and here’s what to expect.
Beautiful. Ornamental. Powder Coated.
If you’re in the state of Michigan, and you spot some stunning metalwork, look closely. There’s a good chance it could be the craftsmanship of the team at Diseños Ornamental Iron.
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