Topic

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The Australian Paint Industry: A Market Overview

Speakers

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Mr. Michael Hambrook
[Speaker's Biography]

Summary

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Mr. Hambrook will provide an overview of the Australian market for architectural and decorative paints and industrial coatings. He will look at market growth over the past ten years by product category, geographic area and by sales channels. Mr. Hambrook will also look at the growth in imports and exports particularly in regard to China/Australian trade.

Finally, Mr. Hambrook will comment on the latest regulatory initiatives such as the Commonwealth Government's restrictions on TBT-based anti-fouling paints, the impending control of VOC thresholds and the handling of post consumer paint.

Topic

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Latest Development of Waterborne Coating Resins in Japan

Speakers

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Mr. Shigeru Komazaki
[Speaker's Biography]

Summary

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In order to protect the earth and our future, coating and resin suppliers are changing and developing the earth conscious products and resins (waterborne, hisolid, UV, powder etc.).

At the beginning of the presentation, it will focus on coating market trend for the environmental protection. Next, will talk about waterborne coating resins. How high performance coating resins can be promoted for global market to cover the various customers’ demands. The environmental concern leads to the reduction of VOC. In order to maximize the demand for the paint industry, high performance waterborne coating resins will be focused for applications of industries such as automotive, electronics, household appliance and exterior etc.

In this presentation, the speaker will outline the waterborne coating resins from polymer design technology, then will introduce 1K, 2K, modified and UV coating with suitable coating systems on plastic or metal substrates for several applications have remarkable characteristics, such as adhesion on the plastic substrates, chemical resistance, hardness, weathering resistance and corrosion resistance.