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PRIMARY JOURNAL FOR THE COATINGS MARKET IN ASIA & THE PACIFIC RIM VOL 31 • NO 6 DECEMBER 2018 Inside: Tinting & Mixing Inside: Extenders & Fillers Asia Paci c Regional Directory 2019 Your guide to coatings suppliers and distributors to the Asia Paci c region INDIA • ADDITIVES • HIGH PERFORMANCE CONTENTS VOL 31 No 06 December 2018 FEATURES HIGH PERFORMANCE 33 THE POTENTIAL OF GRAPHENE MARKET REPORT Prof A S Khanna discusses the potential for high performance 11 INDIA corrosion resistant coatings using graphene Yogi Malik focusses on India’s performance coatings sector 36 THE FUTURE OF ELECTRO MOBILITY Axalta is shaping the future of electro mobility with its wire enamels TINTING & MIXING 14 HERITAGE COLOURS Patrick Baty, Papers and Paints Ltd, gives a fascinating insight into THE 2019 ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL DIRECTORY researching and mixing heritage colours 37 2019 DIRECTORY APCJ brings you its annual guide to suppliers and distributors 18 TINTING & MIXING MACHINERY to the Asia Pacific region, with up to date industry contacts and Santint, a global leader in tinting & mixing equipment, takes us product information through its latest product offerings EXTENDERS & FILLERS 19 PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF TIO2 Susanne Reiter and Hubert Oggermüeller, Hoffmann Mineral, answer whether Neuberg Siliceous Earth can be used as a partial replacement for titanium dioxide REGULARS 23 GLOSS CONTROL OF POWDER COATINGS William Mertens, Sibelco, compares and contrasts two of the 03 EDITOR’S PAGE company’s engineered mineral fillers Comment from the Editor 26 WHITE AND TRANSPARENT COATINGS 04 NEWS Amandine Briand and Helen Dollani, Imerys Minerals, discuss the A digest of news from the global paint and coatings industries optical impact of ultrafine particles in white and transparent coatings 08 PRODUCTS & EVENTS 28 CALCIUM CARBONATE MARKET Product innovation and coatings events for your diary Future Market Insights shares a summary of findings from its latest report on the ground and precipitated calcium carbonate market 10 BUSINESS REPORT Terry Knowles delves in to the world of pigments ADDITIVES 12 INDUSTRY OUTLOOK 29 BUILDING BLOCKS Terry Knowles looks at the financial results of four of the world’s BASF discusses three amines for epoxy-based industrial coatings most prominent paint manufacturers COVER IMAGE CREDIT: www.pixabay.com 1 APCJ • December 2018 www.coatingsgroup.com FORTHCOMING EVENTS Global links for coatings professionals 26 – 28 February 2019 DWTC, Dubai UAE 14 – 15 May 2019 InterContinental Asiana Saigon 2019 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 11 – 12 June 2019 Safari Park Hotel Nairobi, Kenya 2019 Asia Pacific 4 – 6 September 2019 Coatings Show BITEC 2019 Bangkok, Thailand 23 – 24 September 2019 Egypt International Exhibition Center New Cairo, Egypt +44 (0)1737 855021 FOR UPTODATE INFORMATION ON [email protected] ANY OF THE ABOVE EVENTS, PLEASE www.coatingsgroup.com CONTACT THE COATINGS GROUP 'The CoatingsGroup' @CoatingsGroup EDITORIAL COMMENT Openings, expansions and the delights of the Directory... s 2018 draws to a close, it’s coil coatings and finally, BASF plans to certainly been another busy year double its capacity for acrylics dispersions Ain the coatings sector in the Asia with a new production line at its site in Pasir Pacific region, with plant/facility openings Gudang, Malaysia. in nearly every part of the area, as a quick glance thorough the news pages of this nn DIRECTORY DELIVERED year’s issues reveals. In no particular order, here are just a few December, here in the APCJ office means of the highlights: We’ve seen innovation Directory time and hopefully, you will find centres opening in Bintaro, Indonesia this year’s offering to be the best yet. (Henkel); Mumbai, India, (Michelman); a There’s something very satisfying Research Hub in Singapore (Evonik) and about taking all the information from the Stahl has opened a Center of Excellence for literally scores of entries and putting it performance coatings in Suzhou (China). precisely into order on the pages, though BASF opened its first automotive I’m not sure that Sally would agree with Chris Malthouse production plant in Thailand in this just at this moment, as she single- Editor Samutprakarn Province, while Axalta chose handedly has done all the work herself Gujarat in India for its latest automotive on this one. The ‘blob chart’ as we fondly facility. Still in India, Wacker opened a call the Product Finder section used to functional silicone fluid plant in Amtala. be my favourite bit to do, although it was In China, AkzoNobel opened its largest guaranteed to make your eyes go decidedly powder coatings plant in Changzhou; Dow strange after several hours staring at all launched its first manufacturing plant in those ‘blobs’ and proof reading it, is an Western China and Clariant added two absolute nightmare. new additive facilities in Zhenjiang. In South It’s both strange, clever and wonderful Korea, Wacker opened a new production how the mind always manages to make you site for silicones. Toyo Ink established a forget the bad and painful bits of life – a bit production base in Myanmar. Huntsman like childbirth, if it didn’t, I’m sure we’d all be opened a formulation manufacturing facility single children! near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, while Beckers has opened a new site in Nghe nn SEASON’S GREETINGS An, to the north of the country and Dürr is building a space-saving smart paint shop Meanwhile, on behalf of Sally and I myself, in Haiphong. I would like to take this opportunity to wish Berger Paints is expanding with a everyone a happy holiday season and we second factory in Bangladesh, while in look forward to working with you all again Pakistan, AkzoNobel is to start producing in 2019. 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The science-based company environmentally friendly centre will focus on active in health, nutrition innovative performance coating solutions for a and sustainable living, wide variety of materials. has announced that Baril Stahl has nine Centers of Excellence around Coatings has become the world, covering almost every continent. the latest industry player At each centre, the company’s experts work to adopt the Decovery® side-by-side with partners to meet the growing plant-based resin for a new demand for products and solutions that have less generation of sustainable impact on the environment. paints that will benefit The addition of the Suzhou Center of consumer health, while Excellence puts Stahl in an even stronger Hagen Chen, Managing Director Greater helping to safeguard position to combine its strengths with those of China at Stahl, said: “China occupies an the planet. Today, the its local partners to create high-quality solutions important position in the world as a driver of more Decovery® family contains for the automotive, apparel & accessories and sustainable development. We strive to make anywhere from 30-50% interior industries. coating solutions with the lowest possible impact plant-based content (such The new Center of Excellence has been in terms of people’s health and the environment. as seeds, tree bark, corn equipped with solar panels providing part of the Over the last few years, our performance and castor beans). electricity that is consumed by the lab. A solar coatings business has been growing enormously illumination and motion-detection lighting system in China, especially in the automotive industry. AkzoNobel and McLaren have been implemented to save electricity. Green The requests for applications for seat and trim, celebrate 10yr partnership plants on the rooftop enable temperature control elastomer coatings and flock adhesives are It’s been 10yrs since during the hot season and the investment in a growing on a daily basis. AkzoNobel and McLaren high efficiency air filter system guarantees clean “Besides the automotive industry, the new first collaborated with their air emission. Also, the choice for low VOC boards facility anticipates the growing demand in China partnership.