CASE Chemicals & Materials
Recent supply chain issues have necessitated raw materials supplier changes, additional layers of materials testing and formulation pivots in order to keep up CASE materials and CASE chemicals production levels. Because CASE chemicals, AKA CASE materials, are important to all facets of global industrial and consumer product manufacturing. Coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers are critically important to provide performance, protection, operation, and strength and durability to support and broad range of industries like building and construction, automotive, aerospace, packaging, and marine environments.
The formulations and varieties of CASE chemicals are almost endless as manufacturers constantly evolve to innovate new products. For example, factors like the depletion of natural resources has given rise to replacing petroleum-based chemicals and materials with green chemistry and sustainable materials like bio-based and water-borne products. In addition to being more sustainable to produce, these products reduce the uptake of harmful chemicals and materials into the environment.
Regardless of categorization as traditional or trending bio-based; CASE chemicals producers have many common challenges like accurately identifying and qualifying raw materials, developing robust and reliable methods for manufacturing QA/QC, adhering to regulatory compliance and ensuring intended end-market quality and performance formulation needs. Ensuring quality requires analyses throughout the chemical production cycle, from raw materials testing to evaluating samples for formulation, weathering and corrosion resistance, dry time, film thickness, flexural strength, and VOC testing, among others. Discover our analyses and applications for chemicals manufacturers.
Coatings are critical to provide protective, functional or decorative properties to the surface, or substrate of almost everything we use. Coatings are functional and can be applied as gases, liquids or solids and some coatings alter a product’s surface properties. One example of an important industrial coating is seen in the semiconductor and electronics industry, which utilizes light sensitive polymer coatings called photoresist, to completely alter the semiconductor wafer surface and enable control over doping and etching processes. Other functional coatings can change substrate properties like their adhesion, corrosion resistance and more.
Adhesives are important to many industries such as construction, alternative energy production structures like wind power, packaging product safety tapes, and the transportation industry like manufacturing stronger, safer vehicles due to adhesives’ impact-absorbing properties. Research and development (R&D) innovate new substances across their physical forms of pastes, liquids, films and pellets, their chemical forms of epoxy, polyurethane or polyimide and their classification as hot melt(s), thermosetting, pressure sensitive or contact. Manufacturers QA/QC test their raw materials and intermediates, especially in these times of supply chain issues and investigating potential new suppliers.During formulation, through production and final testing, analyses are carried out depending on the adhesive’s intended end-use, modifying formulations to meet market trends, changing regulations, and other factors.
Sealants are important to many industries to prevent gas or liquid from passing into, out of or through a surface by creating “airtight” or “waterproof” seals. Physically reactive, non-reactive and chemically reactive sealants can also provide thermal and acoustical insulation, can possess electrical properties, and can also be used for simple smoothing or filling. Manufacturers QA/QC test their raw materials and intermediates, especially in these times of supply chain issues and investigating potential new suppliers. During formulation, through production and final testing, analyses are carried out depending on the sealants intended end-use, modifying formulations to meet market trends, changing regulations, and other factors.
Elastomers, a subset of polymers or ‘elastic polymers’ are either natural or synthetic and require testing for viscosity and elasticity depending on their intended end-use for applications like automotive, electronics, construction, and more.
Manufacturers QA/QC test their raw materials and intermediates, especially in these times of supply chain issues and investigating potential new suppliers. During formulation and mixing, through production, final testing, and packaging, analyses are carried out depending on the elastomers’ intended end-use, modifying formulations to meet market trends, changing regulations, and other factors.
CASE Chemicals Spotlight
Resources
CASE Chemicals: Trends, Innovations, and Challenges
The specialty chemical category referred to as CASE – coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers – are essential materials throughout industrial and consumer ...
Collection of CASE Chemicals Testing Methods
CASE chemicals, also known as CASE materials are important to all facets of global industrial and consumer product manufacturing. The CASE chemicals category ar ...
On the Move: How the CASE Industry Advances Product Performance and Sustainability
Sustainability October 19, 2022Click Here to View All Blogs About Chemicals The industry known as CASE – coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers – is reli ...
Webinars
CASE Chemicals Testing & Foundational Solutions
Recent supply chain issues have necessitated raw materials supplier changes, additional layers of materials testing and formulation pivots in order to keep up C ...
Collection of CASE Chemicals Analysis Webinars
Collection of CASE chemicals analysis webinars on raw materials - acrylates & alkyd resins by LC, adhesives raw materials & QA/QC with IR, and resin quality ana ...
Green Building Materials Analysis with UV/Vis-NIR and Infrared Analytical Solution
As we are becoming increasingly aware of negative environmental influences, global warming, and sustainable building practices, we are learning that new constru ...
Applications
Evaluation of Epoxy Quality by Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Epoxy resins are important CASE (coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers) materials for industrial and consumer applications due to their versatility. Epoxy r ...
HPLC: Analysis of Acrylate Monomers
Acrylate polymers are utilized for a host of applications due to their varied physical properties and ease of synthesis. These acrylates are sought after specif ...
Use of FTIR to Characterize and Monitor the Curing of Sealants
Sealants have a wide range of commercial and industrial applications often requiring highly specialized formulations for the different environments they may be ...
Evolved Gas Analysis for the Identification of Paint Components
Paints contain a variety of components including pigments, fillers, binders, solvents, and additives, each having a particular function within the product. Due ...
Time-Resolved FTIR studies of Adhesives and Paints
Paints and adhesives, although dissimilar materials with different purposes, have a commonality that they are typically liquid phase starting materials that end ...
Speciation of Hexavalent Chromium in Children's Toys According to EN 71-3 Category II with the NexSAR HPLC-ICP-MS
Testing for harmful metal(loid)s that may be included in raw materials, processes, paints and additives used in the manufacturing processes of children's toys h ...
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