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	Click n Vote: According to you, what is the best benefit of microencapsulation technology?
	Click n Vote: Why is your company Out-licensing technologies?
	Community Insight: Manufacturers Underline Sealants' Active Role
	Editorial: Cling Films Provide Adhesion without Adhesives
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	News: Genomatica and Novamont form JV to Produce BDO from Renewable Feedstocks

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	R&D Highlights: Polyesters for Sustainable Adhesive Technologies
	Starting point formulation: Polyurethane Coating and Adhesive for Roofing
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Labeling Productivity Enhanced thanks to SBC's Performance

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Jan 2012: What are your recommendations to enhance the speed cure of MS Polymers?

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Alpha-silane - Jan 19, 2012
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"Alpha-silane can react with water hundred times faster than ordinary ones..."

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According to you, what is the best benefit of microencapsulation technology?

Put incompatible materials together in the same formulation

Formulate with actives that are unstable, oxidable or volatile

Control the initiation / inhibition ot the adhesive

Change the physical form of the adhesive formulation

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Why is your company Out-licensing technologies?

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Manufacturers Underline Sealants' Active Role

As sealants are typically dispensed and left for years at a time, an average user can easily forget their main purpose until it's too late. In fact, as these products combine many functions, different people have different needs from their sealants. You might therefore argue that it's up to the user to define what that main purpose actually is. To know which specifications they should optimize first, sealant formulators must ask their customers what properties they value most and ensure their products deliver it, even if the users don't think about them after they've been applied.
Analysis by Andrew Extance

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Cling Films Provide Adhesion without Adhesives

This editorial examines several processes that make it easier to reposition or debond substrates. The focus is on cling films that can adhere to a substrate without the use of adhesives. Practical applications include decorative wall coverings, labels, and protective films.

by Edward M Petrie

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Renewable Additives for Adhesives and Sealants

This article provides an overview of renewable additive materials that are being used and developed for use in biobased adhesives and sealants. The drivers and barriers are also reviewed in an effort to determine their commercial sustainability and practicality in conventional adhesive and sealant...

by Edward M Petrie

Selecting Acrylic Emulsion PSA Dispersion Particle Size Distribution

Until recently the lack of control in emulsion polymerizations has meant that most acrylic PSA formulation knowledge came from solution polymerization. But recent improvements have meant better polymer size distribution (PSD) control, which influences latex viscosity and solid content. High solid...

by Andrew Extance

Acrylic / Polyurethane Hybrid Waterborne Sealants

This article will first review the advantages of acrylic / polyurethane hybrid waterborne sealant formulations, and the routes to producing a polyurethane / acrylic base polymer system. The article will then describe possible starting formulations and appropriate market...

by Edward M Petrie

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Jan 23, 2012 -	Genomatica and Novamont form JV to Produce BDO from Renewable Feedstocks
Jan 20, 2012 -	Novapex Appoints IMCD to Distribute Chemical Intermediate Alphamethylstyrene
Jan 20, 2012 -	Momentive, AOC and Scott Bader Announce Rise in Product Prices
Jan 19, 2012 -	Arkema Plans to Optimize its Functional Polyolefin Range
Jan 19, 2012 -	Freudenberg Introduces Fluoroprene® XP 40 Sealing Material Showing High Durability
Jan 19, 2012 -	Pflaumer Introduces Teraspartic 230®, Amine-functional Resin for Sealants
Jan 18, 2012 -	Dow Corning to Present Silicone-based Materials for Lighting Technology at Strategies in Light
Jan 18, 2012 -	Bayer Establishes Hydrogenation Technical Center to Widen Isocyanate Production Processes
Jan 18, 2012 -	BASF Invests €1B to Build Integrated TDI Complex at Ludwigshafen

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Technical Paper - Polyesters for Sustainable Adhesive Technologies

Patent - Nanoparticle-modified Polyisocyanates

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Polyurethane Coating and Adhesive for Roofing - Reactive

Silicone Sealant  High Modulus - Sealants

Silicone Sealant  Medium Modulus - Sealants

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Solar Panels: Existing & Future Opportunities for Adhesives

Date: February 8th, 2012 - Time: 10 a.m. EST
Presenter: Edward Petrie & David Nick (SpecialChem Expert)

Course objectives:

Take 90 min to clarify existing and future adhesives / sealants opportunities within the fast-growing solar energy market thanks to a structured review of market trends and successful bonding technologies.

• Ease your decisions by clarifying where adhesives stand in terms of competitiveness (resistance to thermal and mechanical stresses, conductivity...)

• Get novel ideas by seeing how others successfully fulfilled challenges with their thermosetting epoxy, RTV silicone, cyanoacrylate...

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Content: Technical Level: Speaker: (38 evaluations)

"Good review of trends and innovation needs of the entire Photovoltaic system." Elaine L. , from Bostik, Inc.

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