7 ONTARIO GRAIN FARMER OCTOBER 2024 The other factors that favour soybean oil are its lubricity and durability, which make it perfect for high-performance coatings. It also supports Canadian agriculture by driving demand for locally grown soybeans, ensuring a reliable and high-quality supply. Compared to other plant oils like linseed or sunflower, soybean stands apart based on its costeffectiveness, availability, and properties for use as coatings. It’s a “medium oil” versus short or long, which McSorley says provides balanced drying times, better flexibility and hardness, versatility in application, improved gloss retention, better flow, levelling, and compatibility with additives. “The biggest benefit we see for using soy as a raw material is the fact it contains zero microplastics,” he says. “The paint and coating industry is currently being looked at for contributing more than 50 per cent of the microplastics found in our rivers, the Great Lakes, and the oceans. It’s a global issue that needs to be resolved, and the paint and coating industry has to change and move away from liquid plastic coating formulated from the oil and gas supply chain.” GREAT NEWS According to statistics from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA), from 2021 to 2023, the province averaged just under three million acres of soybeans annually and nearly 150 million bushels each of those three years. That’s an abundant supply of soybeans for the raw materials needed by Prisum Coatings Canada. The company sources their soybeans from local farmers, ensuring a steady and sustainable supply and support, fostering relationships with those growers, promoting sustainable practices, and ensuring long-term stability. continued on page 8 “BioMarker is the world’s first plant-based road-marking paint to be tested and approved by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation.
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