N E W S - I N D U S T R Y M A T T E R S
Construction
industry is major
paint consumer
A recent report on paint use has
been released.
Ceresena’s ‘Market Study: Paints
& Coatings – World’ says that,
currently, almost half of all paints
and coatings consumed in 2017
were used in the construction
industry.
It says that this market is mainly
supported by the rising demand
for living space in densely
populated countries but also by
major projects in infrastructure
and commercial construction.
The current market report also
analyses demand for individual
product types: ranging from
paints and coatings based on
acrylics, vinyls, alkyd, epoxy, and
polyurethane up to polyester and
paints and coatings based on
other products.
Acrylic paints were by far the
most used type in 2017. Vinyl
paints followed. Demand for
acrylic paints was highest in
Asia-Pacific and North America,
followed by Western Europe and
South America.
Water-based and solvent-based
paints and coatings dominate
the market. Powder coatings only
account for a small share of the
market for paints and coatings.
Water-based coatings are used
for wood, plastics, leather, and
textile coatings. Moreover,
environmentally friendly water
coatings are frequently used
as machine and automotive
paints. The lower VOC levels of
water-based coating systems
and, in some applications, the
possibility to be recycled are a
great advantage. These and other
advantages will help water-based
paints and coatings to account
for the highest average growth
rate of the upcoming eight years.
For more visit https://www.
ceresana.com/en/market-studies/
industry/paints-coatingsworld/
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14 February 2019
eMag
BOGE celebrates years of intelligent engineering and innovation
The compressed air specialist BOGE
chalked up 111 years in November;
the family-run company wants to use
a variety of opportunities in the coming
year to present itself as the innovation
driven pioneer it is, always
was, and wishes to remain. However,
one thing is clear: at 111 years of age,
BOGE is as ‘fresh and young as ever’
the company says in a release.
It says that one element has stayed exactly
the same at BOGE over these 111
years – that is to say, that everything
has always changed.
“Proven concepts are questioned time
and again, their own principles are put
to the test, and established patterns
are broken down. Unrealistic, too daring,
completely crazy? At BOGE there is
no reason not to give a visionary idea a
chance,” the release says.
It says that this is the very process that
gives rise to the revolutionary concepts
and groundbreaking technologies
for which BOGE is known.
“BOGE has continuously reinvented
itself. We have always engaged fearlessly
with the new, and have therefore
constantly been a step ahead of our
time,” says ceo Wolf Meier-Scheuven.
The great grandson of the company
founder Otto Boge, he is the fourth
generation to manage the family-run
company.
The first compressors were developed
by the pioneering company based in
Bielefeld almost 20 years after the
company was founded in 1907.
“Compressed air systems from BOGE
are used all over the world today –
thanks to intelligent engineering, innovation
management and quality;
custom-made in Germany. With a contingent
of almost 5%, BOGE invests
twice as much in research and development
as the average mechanical engineering
company.”
Half of all BOGE projects are not yet five
years old. Across its 111-year company
history, BOGE has always maintained a
start-up mindset, it says.
Fuel
for the future
Ulsan National Institute of Science and
Technology (UNIST) and Georgia Tech
have developed a new system that
absorbs CO2 and produces electricity
and useable hydrogen fuel.
The new device, which the team calls
a Hybrid Na-CO2 System, is basically
a big liquid battery. A sodium metal
anode is placed in an organic electrolyte,
while the cathode is contained in
an aqueous solution. The two liquids
are separated by a sodium super ionic
conductor membrane.
When CO2 is injected into the aqueous
electrolyte, it reacts with the cathode,
turning the solution more acidic, which
in turn generates electricity and creates
hydrogen. In tests, the team reported a
CO2 conversion efficiency of 50%, and
the system was stable enough to run
for over 1,000 hours without causing
any damage to the electrodes. Unlike
other designs, it doesn't release any
CO2 as a gas during normal operation
– instead, the remaining half of the CO2
was recovered from the electrolyte as
plain old baking soda.
"Carbon capture, utilisation, and sequestration
(CCUS) technologies
have recently received a great deal of
attention for providing a pathway in
dealing with global climate change,"
says Professor Guntae Kim, head of
the study. "The key to that technology
is the easy conversion of chemically
stable CO2 molecules to other materials.
Our new system has solved this
problem with CO2 dissolution mechanism."
The team plans to continue improvement
on the design.
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