by George Pilcher | Oct 2023 | European Coatings Journal
PFAS FundamentalsGrouping and Evaluation of PFASGlobal Regulatory ApproachesPFAS in the Future? PFAS here, PFAS there, PFAS is everywhere we turn in mid-2023. The newest acronym-cum-neologism in the global specialty chemicals industry is the (often pejorative) noun...
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...
