2021

Borates for wood protection: Forest-to-market

:: Thursday, March 18, 2021 :: Posted By Frank Wawrzos
Borates for wood protection: Forest-to-market
The wood and timber industries rely on borates for environmentally safe options for wood protection. Learn how borates protect, preserve, and extend the life of wood in a wide range of applications.

Coudekerque facility sets the quality standard for specialty borates

:: Friday, March 5, 2021 :: Posted By Vincenzo Restivo
Coudekerque facility sets the quality standard for specialty borates
To ensure that manufacturers can trust the quality and consistency of the products they receive, our Coudekerque facility has developed a highly-specialized quality management system.

Firebrake ZB in Coatings for Fire Retardant Paint

:: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 :: Posted By Emmanuel Laval
Firebrake ZB in Coatings for Fire Retardant Paint
Firebrake ZB provides multifunctional benefits in a wide variety of solvent-based and aqueous fire-retardant coatings, including epoxies, vinyl chlorides, acrylics, and urethanes coatings.

Value in use of anhydrous boron in glass

:: Thursday, January 14, 2021 :: Posted By Allen Zheng
Value in use of anhydrous boron in glass
Anhydrous boron is a more concentrated form of boron—containing 1.4 times more B2O3. The additional value that anhydrous products bring goes beyond the concentration difference of B2O3.
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