Coatings are used to provide product and packaging protection and enhancements in countless ways.

By Tom Polischuk

Northwest Coatings LLC is a manufacturer of both water-based and UV/EB coatings, which Vice President and Technical Director, Stephen Lapin, PhD, says are both environmentally friendly technologies. “They offer very low levels of VOCs and do not require the use of thermal oxidizers to manage emissions. Water-based and UV/EB curable coatings are also safer to handle relative to solvent-based coatings.”