Coatings materials crisis

It was prophesied in the 1960s that oil-based paints would disappear from the market in about 20 years in favour of petrochemical-based products. This has not happened, and the main protective paints are still based on fatty oils. In fact, following the oil crisis, the trend has been back to raw materials from renewable resources. None of the new technologies such as the use of powder coatings, water-borne paints, or radiation-curing paints, which would not have been based on oils, have proved as versatile as expected. 

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