organizing and archiving elements of the past to inspire the
future
• Obscura – where dark and light are equally important –
inspired by the daily transition of night and day
• Upgrade – where emotion and technology meet – about
breaking free from our busy lives and adding a human
touch to hi-tech developments
• This.is.Me – balancing between the power of image and
words – an expressive trend about glorious imperfection.
PPG’s GLIDDEN Paint Colors Help Coat
HGTV Dream Home 2016
The GLIDDEN paint brand offered interior designer Brian
Patrick Flynn the inspiration needed to develop a coastal-inspired color palette for the HGTV Dream Home 2016.
Featuring pairings of bright, beachy hues and shades, the home
displays more than 12 Glidden paint colors to accentuate the
unique features of each room in the house.
Located in Merritt Island, Florida, the 20th annual HGTV
Dream Home is approximately 3, 100 square feet and includes
three bedrooms, three full and two half bathrooms, water
views and a poolside paradise. Glidden paint sponsored the
home and provided more than 160 gallons of Glidden HIGH
ENDURANCE and Glidden High Endurance Plus interior and
exterior paints in various airy whites as well as coastal teal, turquoise, salmon and terra cotta shades.
RCMA Releases Updates to Reflective
Roof Coatings and LEED White Paper
The Roof Coatings Manufacturers Association (RCMA) has recently updated its Reflective Roof Coatings and LEED white
paper, originally issued by the Reflective Roof Coatings Institute
(RRCI) in 2012. The RRCI white paper explores the role of
reflective roof coatings in the US Green Building Council’s
(USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) Version 4 (v4) green building program with emphasis on
new building structure, existing building operation and maintenance and LEED v4 prerequisites and credit requirements.
The white paper intends to provide understanding for stakeholders on the cost effective contributions of roof coatings and
the environmentally sound new building and renovation projects that use LEED v4. The white paper also serves as a resource
which outlines the benefits that reflective roof coatings provide
to buildings, businesses and the environment. The findings in
RRCI’s LEED white paper apply to any reflective roof coatings
that are LEED compliant.
Bob Kobet, the Kobet Collaborative, is the author of the RRCI
LEED white paper updates, as well as RRCI’s original white paper.
Members of the RCMA Reflective Roof Coatings Institute, RCMA
Technical Affairs Committee, and RCMA Codes and Standards
Task Force collaborated on the project to update and revise this
white paper to incorporate updates with the new version of LEED.
The Reflective Roof Coatings and LEED v4 white paper is
published online and can be found at http://www.roofcoatings.
org/technical-resources/whitepapers/.
H.B. Fuller Announces E-Commerce
Packaging Initiative
H.B. Fuller Company ow provides a comprehensive line
of universally compatible adhesive solutions, targeted
specifically to improve the effectiveness of e-commerce packaging.
“The boom in online shopping has thrown up a number of
challenges that are driving the development of exciting new
packaging solutions,” confirms Traci Jensen, senior vice presi-
dent, H.B. Fuller. “For years, we have used our adhesive know-
how to help key e-retail players find smart answers to their
packaging problems. Now, we have combined all of these inno-
vations, along with the support of our adhesive experts, to bring
e-commerce retailers and fulfilment houses a complete range of
purpose-designed packaging options.”
H.B. Fuller helps solve today’s customer packaging challenges
with easy-opening Sesame solutions, designed to enable custom-
ers to access goods without damaging the box. Close-Sesame®
solutions are pre-applied, tamper-proof tapes designed for easy
closing. Options include pre-application of re-closing tapes to
simplify returns in the same box. Plus, Sesame® in-the-board
reinforcement tapes strengthen packaging in critical stress areas
to protect goods against the unpredictable conditions they meet
during outward and return transit.
H.B. Fuller has worked closely with corrugated board producers, end-of-line packaging equipment manufacturers, brand
