| Thursday Track 1 | Thursday Track 2 | |||||
| Time Slot | Talk | Company | Speaker | Talk | Company | Speaker |
| 9:00 – 9:30AM | High Solids and Low VOC Coatings for Flooring Application Based on Michael Addition Chemistry | Allnex | Ulises Brauer | Oxidizable Phenolic Urethanes – Bio-Based OPU | SamMorell.com | Sam Morell |
| 9:30 – 10:00AM | Alternatives to Fluorosurfactants for Floor Care Coatings | BASF | Anthony Moy | Making "Green" More Clear: Sustainable formulating approaches to prepare for upcoming regulations | BYK USA | Mary Kate Nolan |
| 10:00 – 10:30AM | BREAK | BREAK | ||||
| 10:30 – 11:00AM | Pull-off adhesion: what does it really tell us? | Department of Coating and Polymeric Materials, NDSU | Stuart G. Croll, Professor Emeritus | Coalescing Innovation Into Performance | Emerald/Lanxess | Stephen Foster, Ph. D. |
| 11:00 – 11:30AM | Improved Adhesion of Silicone Roof Coatings to Difficult Membranes with Novel Silanes | Evonik Corporation | Letitia Luu | Ethylene: The Soft Approach to High Performance Specialty Coatings | Wacker | Corinne Walden |
| 11:30 – 12:00PM | Fibrillated HDPE An Alternative to Fumed Silica for Epoxy & Silicone Systems | MiniFibers, Inc. | Joe McJunkins | The Impact of Viscosity on Coating Atomization Patterns and Paint Lay Down | Saint Clair Systems, Inc. | Michael Bonner |
| 12:00 – 1:30PM | LUNCH | LUNCH | ||||
| 1:30-2:00 PM | PTFE-free Wax Additives for Enhanced Surface Performance | BYK USA Inc. | Nick Penrose | Sustainability 101 | UnivarSolutions | Joshua Ackerman/Paul Campbell |
| 2:00-2:30 | New Fine Sized Matting Agents Drives Smooth – Low Gloss Finishes | Evonik Corporation | Maria Nargiello | Advancing Sustainable Water-Based Coatings with Heavy-Metal Free Corrosion Inhibitors | ICL | Michelle Bauer |
| 2:30 – 3:00PM | Mica Effect Pigments: The Development of Micas and Use in Color Design | Sudarshan North America | Bonnie Piro | Bringing Cicularity at Scale to Birla Carbon's Value Chain through Sustainable Carbonaceous Materials | Birla Carbon | Robert Fisher |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | BREAK | BREAK | ||||
| 3:30 – 4:00PM | The Effects of Formulation Variables on The Performance and Film Properties of Low VOC Waterborne Acrylic Resins Used in Direct-to-Metal Applications | Engineered Polymer Solutions | Chris LeFever | Hazardous Area Static Control in the Handling of Flammable Material | Newson Gale | Richard Puig |
| 4:00 – 4:30PM | Here Comes the Sun… Lower Yellowing Epoxy Systems for Outdoor Applications | Westlake Epoxy | Dan Weinmann | Eight Things You Probably Don’t Know About the Electric Heaters in Your Fluid Dispensing System |
Saint Clair Systems, Inc. | Michael Bonner |
| Friday Track 1 | Friday Track 2 | |||||
| Time Slot | Talk | Company | Speaker | Talk | Company | Speaker |
| 8:30 – 9:00AM | The Power of Tannin & Stain Inhibitors |
WPC Technologies | Keetra Muana | |||
| 9:00 – 9:30AM | Sustainability and regulatory issues | Patcham USA | John Du | Highly Weatherable PVDF-Based Aqueous Dispersions for Low VOC Applications | Arkema Inc. | Kelly Lutz |
| 9:30 – 10:00AM | Why Wood is such a difficult Substrate? And how to Protect it! | Synthomer | Latoska N. Price | Waterborne Resins for the Evolving Environment and Sustainability Coatings Market | Lubrizol Advanced Materials | Kent Maghacut |
| 10 – 10:30AM | BREAK | |||||
| 10:30 – 11AM | When Did Rework Become Part of Your Process? | Saint Clair Systems, Inc. | Michael Bonner | Unique matting agents and TiO2 extenders based on Modified Calcium Carbonate (MCC) technology for use in coating applications | Omya Inc | Miguel Herrera |
| 11:00 – 11:30AM | Build More Sustainable Coatings Through Self-assembly and Nanotechnology | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University of Science and Technology | Shan Jiang, Ph.D. | An Introduction to Pumice for Paints and Coatings | CR Minerals Company, LLC | Mark Brown |
| 11:30 – 12:00PM | Rheological Studies on Controlling Colloidal Stability of Latex-HEUR Compositions | Cal Poly | Ray Fernando, PhD | Overall Technical & Regulatory Review of Light and Heat Stabilizers Additives for Improved Durability of Waterborne Coatings | Clariant Corporation | Mouhcine Kanouni, PhD |
| 12:00 – 1:30PM | LUNCH | |||||
| 1:30 – 2:00PM | Specialty Additives for Catalysis and Suspension in a Waterborne System | King Industries | Pam Levesque | VOC-Compliant Industrial Floor Coatings Without Exempt Solvents | Covestro LLC | Todd Williams |
| 2:00 – 2:30PM | The effect of microfibrillated cellulose on sedimentation of waterborne coatings | Borregaard | Paul Schuber |
Lean in Manufacturing | Emerald Valley Lean Association and Forrest Technical Coatings | Kim Wooten |
