SUSTAINABILITY DRIVES COATINGS MARKET

摘要

Sustainability, it's the word that is on everyone's lips at the moment, not only in the coatings market, but in the polyurethanes industry as a whole. At the European Coatings Show, held 19-21 March in Nuremberg, Germany, almost all exhibitors had something to say about this key trend in the industry. Different companies presented different ideas to fit in with this buzzword, from solutions that are based on water rather than solvents, to 'green' polyols and raw materials made from renewable feedstocks. Others said that sustainability was about more than just using bio-based materials, it is about developing environmentally conscious processing solutions, and others admitted that the use of bio-based materials is not practical for everyone, at least not yet.