PDA EUROPE NEWS

It's Time to Polyurea

- 2010 Annual Conference -

15-17 November - Sitges, Spain

Registrations opened!
To register, click here.

Presentations and sponsorship opportunities still available!

For more details, click here.

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PDA Europe Applicator Spray Course

4-7 October - UK

Course poster and information available here

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Polyurea Status Report now available in English

PDA Europe now issued the English edition of the status report jointly worked out with Deutsche Bauchemie e.V. (German Association of Construction Chemicals Manufacturers).

This status report for the first time is highlighting the present situation of polyurea use in the European construction industry on 27 pages. The report provides information about the history of polyurea as well as definitions and differentiations from the related polyurethane technology. The most comprehensive part of the report deals with the many application areas of polyurea. Though in some areas polyurea use is more widespread outside Europe especially in the US and increasingly in Asia there are many examples in Europe as well. The emerging character of this technology leads to the fact that in some cases the report rather shows the future potential than noteworthy actual use. This is partly due to the dense European regulatory systems where the young technology normally is not expressly incorporated. However, along with information about relevant German and European regulations given the report comes to the conclusion that polyurea as a liquid plastic material like other established liquid systems is definitely covered by most of the European performance-oriented regulations. Various chapters of the report deal with manufacturing, formulation and especially important with processing of polyurea systems. The raw materials are discussed under aspects of human safety and environmental behaviour. Last but not least references are made to safe transportation, recycling and disposal.

To order, please download, fill in and fax back this form. A minimum order of 5 copies apply [8 EUR per copy].

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Innovation Forum focussing on polyurea held February 24-25, 2010 sponsored by German Ministry of Science and Education

On February 24-25 PDA Europe member company Panadur GmbH hosted the "Innovationsforum Funktionale Oberflächen" in Halberstadt/Germany. The 2-days event was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Science and Education and gathered around 90 participants attending the presentations and the small exhibition. Opening speeches of representatives from the Federal Ministry, the State Ministry of Saxony-Anhalt and the Region were followed by technical presentations highlighting the polyurea technology generally, their many application areas and specifically the combination with nanoparticles, machinery and equipment needed and methods for characterization of the final material. PDA Europe member companies present also introduced the association and invited the participants to join and learn more about polyurea. The attendants mostly represented small and mid-sized companies who by the majority did not yet deal with polyurea.

Accordingly there were lively discussions extending into the concluding dinner banquet and subsequent evening event. The objective of the Innovation Forum series is to give birth to local and regional networks and clusters of excellence. Thus the representative of the Federal Ministry pointed out expressly the intention to foster platform technologies hitherto insufficiently known to a broad public. Documentation of the papers and follow up activities are planned.

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