Abstract: A paintable cloth includes a woven fabric including plant fibers, especially flax, jute, ramie and/or sisal fibers, the woven fabric additionally being coated with a finish.

Abstract: A paint containing: a dispersing medium; a binder; a pigment; a filler; an additive; and at least one agent capable of trapping formaldehyde selected from the group consisting of a compound including an active methylene, a compound including a tannin, and a compound including an amide. In addition, a method for reducing the amount of formaldehyde in the air inside a building by applying the paint to an inner surface of the building.

Abstract: A glass mat includes an assembly of glass fibers, a binder composition and an asphaltic coating. The binder composition includes an organic resin and an adhesion promoter. The glass mat has an at least 2% increase in tear strength as measured using the methods specified in ASTM D3462, compared to an asphaltic coated glass mat having a binder composition without the adhesion promoter. Further provided is an asphalt roofing product including the glass mat and a method of increasing tear strength in an asphalt roofing product.

Abstract: An aqueous finishing composition includes at least one polyglycerol, at least one organic polycarboxylic acid containing at least three carboxyl groups, at least one esterification catalyst, at least one plasticizer, and at least one thickener selected from a group consisting of cellulose derivatives, succinoglycans and xanthans.

Abstract: A triaxial laid scrim includes a first, second and third set of continuous fibers. The fibers of each set are regularly spaced apart and are parallel to each other. The fibers of the first set are parallel to the warp direction or to the weft direction of the scrim. The fibers of the second set and the third set are oriented symmetrically to each other, respectively at an angle of 30°-80° with respect to the fibers of the first set. Distances between the fibers of the second set and the fibers of the third set are identical. The fibers of the second set cross the fibers of the third set at the intersection thereof with the fibers of the first set, thereby defining regular openings having an isosceles triangle shape. The fibers are coated and attached to each other by a coating that does not fill-up the triangle-shaped openings.

Abstract: A screen includes a mesh substrate having an openness of greater than 30% when viewed at 0° incidence, the mesh substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface, the first major surface including a first coating, the first major surface having a first reflectance value, wherein the first reflectance value has an average value of greater than about 10% as measured by an EN410 standard and a diffuse reflection profile at all viewing angles from ?89° to 89°, excluding an angle of direct illumination as measured by a scattering distribution function technique using a Goniometer, wherein the diffuse reflection profile provides a reduction in view through the mesh substrate when viewed from ?89° to 89°.

Abstract: A structure based on glass strand coated with a resin composition containing, by weight percent of solid matter: from 75 to 98% of a mixture of a first novolac having a glass transition temperature lower than or equal to 60° C. and a second novolac having a glass transition temperature above 60° C.; from 0.5 to 10% of a wax; from 1 to 15% selected from an imine and a modified melamine of formula (I): where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are each independently —H, —CH2OH, —CH2OCH3, or —CH2OCH2OCH3 radical, with at least one of R1 to R6 not being H; and from 0 to 10% of a plasticizing agent. Also, a resin composition for producing a reinforcing structure and bonded abrasive articles incorporating such a structure.

Abstract: An aqueous inorganic or hybrid binder composition includes (as % by weight of the solid matter): from 55 to 100% of at least one alkali metal silicate exhibiting an Si/alkali metal weight ratio which varies from 0.3 to 2, from 0 to 35% of at least one plasticizing agent, and from 0 to 10% of one or more additives. Fibrous products can obtained from this composition, in particular based on mineral fibers, such as mats, screens, woven fabrics, in particular painter's canvases, and knitted fabrics.

Abstract: A system for injecting light, includes an optical coupler having: a lens having a convex entrance face of radial extent R1, a convex central exit face and a peripheral exit face; a cavity, containing the entrance face and with an entrance lateral surface; and a peripheral reflective surface, encircling the lens and the cavity, extending beyond the entrance face; an optical collector, with an entrance, a collecting surface facing the central exit face, and a numerical aperture NA smaller than 1, the collector including a jacket having an end surface; and a member for aligning the optical collector, the optical coupler and the aligning member being integrally formed or being indirectly or directly fastened together, the central distance eF on the axis Oz between the collecting surface and the central exit face being nonzero and smaller than 5 mm, and the system including a stop for the end surface.

Abstract: An illuminating panel includes a support holding an integrated illumination. The integrated illumination is an illuminating textile including woven optical fibers coupled to light sources. The optical fibers emit light under an angle suitable for enlightening an adjacent surface substantially perpendicular to the plane of the illuminating panel.

Abstract: A glass mat includes an assembly of glass fibers, a binder composition and an asphaltic coating. The binder composition includes an organic resin and an adhesion promoter. The glass mat has an at least 2% increase in tear strength as measured using the methods specified in ASTM D3462, compared to an asphaltic coated glass mat having a binder composition without the adhesion promoter. Further provided is an asphalt roofing product including the glass mat and a method of increasing tear strength in an asphalt roofing product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing flat glass, comprising the following successive steps: (a) applying a layer of a glass frit to a glass textile, the glass of the frit and of the textile having essentially the same composition, (b) heating the glass textile bearing the layer of glass frit to a temperature T>TL?20° C., TL being the Littleton temperature of the glass frit, for a sufficient length of time to convert the layer of frit into an enamel layer of the same composition as the glass textile, and (c) cooling the glass textile impregnated with the enamel or bearing an enamel layer, obtained in step (b), so as to obtain a glass sheet. It also relates to a glass sheet capable of being obtained by this process.

Abstract: A carrier material for vinyl floor covering, wherein the carrier material includes a nonwoven layer containing at least 50 wt. % of thermoplastic fibers and a scrim for eliminating wrinkles in the vinyl floor covering. The scrim includes weft yarns having a linear density of 28 tex or less. The carrier material prevents the formation of surface irregularities and printing errors in the vinyl floor covering.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an aqueous flame retardant composition for mineral fiber-based mats, in particular glass or rock fibers, which comprises: at least one thermoplastic or thermoset resin; magnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH)2, and aluminum hydroxide, AlOOH, as flame retarding agents; and optionally, carbon black. It also concerns mats treated with said flame retardant composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a structure based on glass fiber coated with a resin composition designed to reinforce bonded abrasive articles, the resin composition including the following constituents in the proportions indicated, expressed in percentage by weight of solid matter: 75 to 98% of a mixture of at least one novolac having a glass transition temperature lower than or equal to 60° C. and at least one novolac having a glass transition temperature above 60° C., 0.5 to 10% of at least one wax, 0 to 3.5% of at least one plasticizing agent.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a binder for a mat of fibers, especially mineral fibers, which comprises: at least one monosaccharide and/or at least one polysaccharide; at least one polycarboxylic organic acid with a molar mass of 1000 or less; and at least one vinyl acetate homopolymer or copolymer. It also concerns the products resulting from treatment of the fibers, especially mineral, with said binder.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an aqueous flame retardant composition for mineral fiber-based mats, in particular glass or rock fibers, which comprises: at least one thermoplastic or thermoset resin, and at least one organic flame retarding agent chosen from: a) alkyl ketene dimers (AKDs) of formula (I) below: in which R1 and R2, which may be identical or different, represent a C4-C18, preferably C12-C16, alkyl radical; and b) alkenyl succinic anhydrides (ASAs) of formula (II) below: in which R3 and R4, which may be identical or different, represent an alkyl radical, the total number of carbon atoms in these radicals varying from 10 to 18, preferably from 12 to 14. It also concerns mats treated with said aqueous flame retardant composition.

Abstract: The invention is drawn to a glass fiber mesh fabric coated with an organic polymer coating having a reduced gross heat of combustion (less than 3.0 MJ/kg), said polymer coating comprising (i) from 60 wt % to 99.9 wt % of poly(vinylidene chloride) (PVDC) or a copolymer thereof; and (ii) from 0.1 wt % to 40 wt % of a formaldehyde-based resin selected from melamine-formaldehyde resins, phenol-formaldehyde resins, urea-formaldehyde resins or a combination thereof. The invention also provides a method for producing such a coated glass fiber mesh fabric.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-adhesive wall covering comprising a glass textile with a closed structure, consisting of glass fibers and of a water-permeable polymer binder, and an adhesive coating comprising both a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) and a water-activable latent adhesive. The definitive attachment to the wall of this repositionable self-adhesive covering takes place, after hanging, by applying one or more coats of water-based paint.

Abstract: A reinforcing drywall tape and a method of making the same, the tape having a greige combined with a laid scrim constructed in situ on the greige and bonded to the greige by a resin coating, and a pressure sensitive adhesive fully covering an inward facing surface of the greige wherein the greige is adapted for adherence to drywall sections.