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ating chances for growth and innovation.
The market has experienced consolidation. It has room for companies of all sizes.
UUHow prevalent are water-borne
formulations in industrial coatings?
Arendt: In applications with highly
controlled substrates and application
techniques, water-borne coatings have increased in prevalence. For industrial coatings where the substrate and application
conditions cannot be tightly controlled,
water-borne coatings have inroads to
make. In exterior environments, solvent-based coatings continue to have a larger,
application window than water-borne. The
migration of solvent-based coatings to water-borne and powder coatings continues
to be a viable trend. Macroeconomic data
shows the migration to water and powder
has been slow and steady. As technology
and regulations continue to develop, we
expect this to continue.
“The American Industrial Coatings Market has
Shown Resiliency”
INDUSTRIAL COATINGS IS ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE COATINGS SEGMENTS BUT COMMON CHALLENGES REMAIN
General trends across the industrial
coatings market include meeting GHS
requirements, reducing costs and using
water-borne formulations, says Jeffrey
Arendt, technical account coordinator
at Arkema Coating Resins. He explains
that due to the very different end uses,
the industrial coatings market is very
diverse and has room for companies of
all sizes.
UU What are overall trends in industrial
coatings?
Jeffrey Arendt: A continuing trend is
the drive towards improving the environ-
mental profile of the materials used. An
immediate example has been the imple-
mentation of the Globally Harmonized
System (GHS) pictograms on safety data
sheets which, for some applications, cre-
ated an immediate need to reformulate to
improve the profile. At a higher level, re-
search trends continue towards reducing
and eliminating environmentally adverse
materials, using fewer materials, and us-
ing less energy. Some examples of these
research activities at Arkema include:
developing surfactant-free water-borne
alkyds and acrylics to replace solvent sys-
tems; low-bake coatings for liquid and
powder applications to save energy; di-
rect-to-metal coating formulations to save
on time and material; and global non-iso-
cyanate coating formulations to eliminate
isocyanate. A second trend is the need to
design products that increase productiv-
ity, thereby reducing cost. To accomplish
this, formulators are engineering systems
that reduce the coating layers needed to
save on application and dry time. Primer
and topcoat-in-one and direct-to-metal
projects are common. For applications
necessitating a primer, manufacturers
are designing wet-on-wet primer topcoat
systems. We continue to develop high sol-
ids resin technology, which increases the
film- build capability of the system. Differ-
entiating performance is a key trend.
UUHow would you describe the
American industrial coatings market?
Arendt: The American industrial coatings market is diverse with many different end uses. It has shown resiliency in a
changing global marketplace. High-value
products continue to be manufactured in
the United States, and re-shoring is cre-
Jeffrey Arendt,
Arkema Coating
Resins
