L-Insight: The Lawrence Industries Newsletter
Lawrence Industries Ltd.
A Brenntag Group Company. Bringing you innovative chemical products and advice, to enhance your products.
Happy Friday and welcome to the second edition of L-Insight. After some hellos and goodbyes at Lawrence House and plenty going on in our day-to-day, it's been a busy month! Check out some of the highlights below.
Upcoming Events
赢创工业集团 has an upcoming webinar with Peter Lederhos where he will be discussing Aerosil? silica and its use in industrial and automotive coatings. Join us by registering for free at the link below...
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? 14:00 BST (15:00 CET)
Technical Highlights
KaMin kaolins are widely used in the coatings industry for pigment extension, however, different types of Kaolin can be used for different types of coatings.
Hydrous kaolins have been water-washed and treated to remove impurities before spray-drying or pulverisation. Calcined kaolins have been dehydroxylated at high temperatures to give an amorphous fused structure with internal air voids.
Hydrous kaolins have a small particle size and high transparency so are generally used for gloss and semigloss paints whereas calcined grades can contribute to dry hiding and contribute to gloss reduction so are better for matt and eggshell paints.
News
Our sales team has expanded with our new starter, Tayla Pritchard , who has joined to support Koen Nickmans aiding our customers working in the polymers industry. She has already had training with lots of our key suppliers and has been calling and meeting with customers to introduce herself.
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It's great to see her get so stuck in and we're thrilled to have her on the team!
Supplier Sustainability
Sappi have hit a major milestone in reducing the carbon footprint of their European paper range by 55% with further reductions up to 70% set to happen by the end of the year. This is one of 80 projects outlined in Sappi Europe's decarbonisation map.
You can find the details of how they've managed this here: https://www.sappi.com/sappi-europe-cuts-galerie-range-carbon-footprint-by-55
Behind the Scenes at Lawrence House
After 19 years, we said goodbye to Jackie McEntree who left us for an early retirement. Jackie has been an essential and invaluable member of the team and we are missing her greatly but we know she's enjoying her extra free time
If anything in this month's newsletter caught your eye, don't hesitate to get in touch and discuss it with one of our Technical Sales Managers.
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