The Waterborne Symposium 2025

Check In, Registration and Continental Breakfast
The mezzanine level is accessible by elevator only.

The mezzanine level is accessible by elevator only. 

Dr. James W. Rawlins
Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering
Course Purpose: 
To provide entry level chemists in the coatings industry an understanding of the principles involved in formulating coatings.
Course Description:
Coating manufacture is challenging. This course will provide gains in understanding in selecting and processing raw materials, compositional ratios of raw materials, and concepts in coating volume and mass relationships. Developing suitable formulations requires specialized knowledge of structure-property-performance relationships, processing variables, raw materials, substrate-coating relationships, regulatory limits, customer cure capabilities, coatings calculations, environmental conditions, testing protocols, and a variety of practical troubleshooting skills. The hands-on examples and lectures are coordinated to provide a quick but comprehensive overview of the fundamentals.

Who should attend: 
The first day’s course material is ideal for fresh entrants into the coatings industry who are not fully conversant with the basic components of coatings.  The technical content of this course will supplement the material covered in our other short courses.    

Check In, Registration and Continental Breakfast
The mezzanine level is accessible by elevator only.

The mezzanine level is accessible by elevator only. 

Dr.  Robson F. Storey
Bennett Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science
Course Purpose: To provide chemists in the coatings industry an understanding of the principles involved in reformulating systems to a waterborne system.
Course Description: Reformulating to Waterborne Coatings is an intensive, two-day course providing an introduction to the technology of waterborne coatings with an emphasis on the challenges encountered in converting existing solvent-borne coating systems to water. It consists of a series of lectures organized around various popular coating types including acrylic latex, polyester/alkyd, two-component polyurethane, polyurethane dispersion, epoxy, and silicone. Additional topics include the use of additives, pigments and pigment dispersion, and application methods for waterborne coatings.
Who should attend: The course is designed for coating chemists and formulators and for persons interested in new applications for waterborne coatings.

The mezzanine level is accessible by elevator only. 

Dr. James W. Rawlins
Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering

Course Purpose: 
To provide entry level chemists in the coatings industry an understanding of the principles involved in formulating coatings.
Course Description:
Coating manufacture is challenging. Often protective and decorative coatings formulations require an iterative series of ladder studies.   Formulating requires raw materials knowledge, processing and preparation skills for production, math for calculations, and physics to discern hiding, loading, ratios of raw materials used with each substrate, cure profile, and environmental conditions. The short course will reinforce formulation building through lectures and mobile laboratories experiments.
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Who should attend: 
This short course is a general course covering major paint and coating types presented at a fundamental technical level and is designed for entry-level chemists to the coatings industry that desire total immersion for paint and coatings production, selection, design, and development.

The mezzanine level is accessible by elevator only. 

Dr.  Robson F. Storey
Bennett Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science
Course Purpose: To provide chemists in the coatings industry an understanding of the principles involved in reformulating systems to a waterborne system.
Course Description: Reformulating to Waterborne Coatings is an intensive, two-day course providing an introduction to the technology of waterborne coatings with an emphasis on the challenges encountered in converting existing solvent-borne coating systems to water. It consists of a series of lectures organized around various popular coating types including acrylic latex, polyester/alkyd, two-component polyurethane, polyurethane dispersion, epoxy, and silicone. Additional topics include the use of additives, pigments and pigment dispersion, and application methods for waterborne coatings.
Who should attend: The course is designed for coating chemists and formulators and for persons interested in new applications for waterborne coatings.

The mezzanine level is accessible by elevator only. 

Dr. James W. Rawlins
Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering

Course Purpose: 
Provide an understanding and overview of surface coating formulation principles for chemists in the coatings industry with hands-on formulation practice and lectures focused on reinforcing structure-property-performance relationships with a ‘begin with the end in mind’ focus.
Course Description:
Coating manufacture is challenging. Often protective and decorative coatings formulations require an iterative series of ladder studies. Formulating requires raw materials knowledge, processing and preparation skills for production, math for calculations, and physics to discern hiding, loading, ratios of raw materials used with each substrate, cure profile, and environmental conditions. The short course will reinforce formulation building through mobile laboratories and lectures.
The Science of Formulating Short Courses is organized to provide 6 hands-on laboratory experiments and 6 lectures in two days delivered by 6 speakers.

Who should attend: 
This short course is a general course covering major paint and coating types presented at a fundamental technical level and is designed for entry-level chemists to the coatings industry that desire total immersion for paint and coatings production, selection, design, and development.