by George Pilcher | Sep 2023 | PCI
Raw Materials Trends Transportation DynamicsWhat Lessons Have We Learned? What Will Become of R&D Efforts in the Coatings Industry? Where to from Here? In 2019, no one in the coatings industry expressed any concern about raw material supplies and availability....
by George Pilcher | Sep 2023 | CoatingsTech
The Relationship of Crude Oil to the U.S. Paint and Coatings Industry, 2022-2024fThe State of the U.S. Paint and Coatings Industry, 2022-2024fArchitectural PaintsIndustrial OEMSpecial Purpose CoatingsOverall Industry Expectations for the Paint and Coatings Market...
by George Pilcher | Jul 2023 | PPCJ
PFAS BasicsEvaluating and Categorizing PFASDiffering Regulations around the WorldSpecialty Chemicals Strategies for the Future In his beloved poem, “Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll created a number of neologisms that became a part of the English Language circa 1871,...
by George Pilcher | May 2023 | CoatingsTech
I would like to begin this article by assuring all of CoatingsTech’s readers that “all is well—the raw material supply chains have returned to normal,” but I cannot. What I can say is that the statement is more like 85-90% true. There are still a few issues, typically...
by George Pilcher | Nov 2022 | China Coatings Journal
This article reviews China and the global paint and coatings industry in 2022 in respect to inflation, material shortages, high crude oil prices, transportation problems, labor shortages and cash flow issues. The good news is that, during 2021, the global paint and...
