38th Annual Waterborne Symposium
This annual event hosted by the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
at the University of Southern Mississippi brings together professionals and academics
involved in all aspects of the development of waterborne coatings.
by Kerry Pianoforte, Associate Editor
The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Poly- mers and High Performance Materials held its 38th An- nual Waterborne Symposium February 28 – March 4 at
The Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, LA. This year’s Symposium, which had 167 attendees, featured 53 speakers on subjects ranging from UV technology, pigments, additives,
waterborne systems, corrosion and a state of the industry special update.
The Symposium began with a state of the industry update
from Phil Phillips of the Chemark Consulting Group. His pres-
entation, “State of the Industry…Where Will the Coatings Tech-
nologies be in 2015?” offered a broad view of the global coatings
market. “The global paint and coatings market reached an esti-
mated $89.5 billion through the end of 2010,” said Phillips. “This
global market figure is forecasted to increase with a modest com-
pound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.1 percent for the period
of 2010 to 2015 and reach $104.2 billion by the end of 2015.”
“Waterborne paint and coating technologies are the largest
environmentally friendly single technologies globally,” he con-
tinued. “The current market is an estimated $28.9 billion in
2010, and is expected to grow to $37.7 billion in 2015, a com-
pound annual growth rate of 5. 3 percent. Forty-three percent of
the current value is represented by a combination of powder, wa-
terborne and emerging systems. By 2015 they will represent over
50 percent.”
The plenary lecture, “Advances in Living/Controlled Poly-
merization in Waterborne Systems: New Opportunities in De-
signing Latexes with Tailored Microstructure and Properties”
was given by Michael Cunningham of Queen’s University in On-
tario, Canada.
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April 2011
