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Acrylate Market Predicts Growth
Markets and Markets, a full-service market research company, recently published a report entitled “Acrylate Market by Chemistry (Butyl Acrylate, Ethyl Acrylate, Methyl Acrylate), Application (Paints & Coatings, Adhesives, Fabrics), End-use Industry (Packaging, Consumer Goods, Building & Construction, Automotive), Region – Global Forecast to 2022.” The title sounds like a different language, but the goal of the report was pretty simple: to define, describe and forecast the acrylate market.The acrylate market was valued at $6.86 Billion in 2016 and by 2022, is projected to reach $9.88 Billion. This is with a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3 percent from […]
An In-Depth Look at Printing Inks
Screen Printing Inks: Perhaps the most versatile printing ink is screen printing ink. In order to understand screen printing ink, it is important to first comprehend the process behind screen printing. Screen printing is a technique in which mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate. A blocking stencil makes desired areas impermeable to the ink, so a design can be created. A blade or squeegee moves across the screen to fill the mesh openings with ink. The most popular mesh in current use is made of polyester. Screen printing is used to manufacture a number of textiles and […]
VOCs: Volatile Organic Compounds
Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are organic chemicals that easily turn to vapor at ordinary room temperature due to their high vapor pressure. These chemicals have a low boiling point, which causes a large number of molecules to sublimate or evaporate from their solid or liquid form and begin to enter the surrounding air, a characteristic known as volatility. A good example would be formaldehyde, which easily evaporates from paint due to its boiling point of only -2 degrees Fahrenheit. There are large assortment of various VOCs, and their presence is rather all around us. The list includes both man-made […]
What is an Acrylic Polymer Emulsion?
When working with water based acrylic polymers, you will surely come across acrylic polymer emulsions. To better understand what exactly an acrylic polymer emulsion is, we should first look at what emulsions are. What is an Emulsion? The word “emulsion” is derived from the Latin word meaning “to milk”, as milk is technically an emulsion of fat and water. Emulsions are a mixture of two or more liquids that aren’t normally mixable. Within an emulsion, one liquid, known as the dispersed phase, is dispersed within the other, known as the continuous phase. The two liquids can form different types of […]
Getting Acquainted with Acrylic Paints
In 1934 the first usable acrylic resin dispersion was created by the German chemical company BASF, patented by Rohm and Haas. By the 1940s the first synthetic paint was used, combining some of the properties of oil and watercolor paints to create one of the first water based acrylic polymers. Sometime between 1946 and 1949, Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden put their heads together and created a solution acrylic paint under the brand Magna Paint. Acrylic paints were made commercially available in the 1950s. This sprung the development of a water based acrylic polymer paint known as “Aquatec”, created by […]
Top 5 Benefits of our Acrylic Polymers
Gellner Industrial’s acrylic polymers provide many capabilities. They are flexible enough to be used as inks for your vinyl substrates. They can also be used as wall and floor coatings (which differ in many ways). But just what is it that makes these acrylic polymers for vinyl so valuable? What exactly do they provide to the vinyl walls and floors? Well, it is about time that we elaborated a bit more on what these polymers can do. Here are the top 5 benefits of our acrylic polymers for vinyl. Superior Adhesion to Vinyl When you need coatings for your vinyl materials, […]