The global aliphatic solvent market is projected to grow from USD 4.2 billion in 2025 to USD 8.9 billion by 2035, registering ...

When I operated a furniture finishing business, I often encountered the problem of color matching in the spray booth. I’ve also done my share of interior and exterior house painting and dabbled ...

These include solvents in paints, inks, thinners and paint removers; heavy metals like lead and cadmium in pigments, pottery glazes, copper enamels and silver solders; dusts like silica and asbestos ...

Every can of paint includes three ingredients: binders that protect the painted surface, pigments that add color and a solvent that makes the paint a liquid. When you spread the paint, the solvent ...

This mostly involves using a substance called dimethylformamide, a common ingredient in paint solvents. It is toxic, environmentally hazardous and potentially carcinogenic. What the Linköping ...

Why do we want change? Because, for every litre of water and solvent-based paint stashed away, there is an estimated 500ml of valuable polymers going to waste. Our report Polymers in liquid ...

“The solvent-based paint typically cannot be recycled. There just isn’t the technology available,” though she said there are some emerging technologies.” About 75% to 80% of the latex ...