These emulsions find applications in adhesives, paints, paper coating and textile coatings. Certain inks, coatings, and adhesives are formulated with photoinitiators and resins. This makes it good as a coating or an additive to coatings. Other solutions are improved materials and/or special insulating coatings. Iron oxides are inexpensive and durable pigments in paints, coatings and colored concretes. BASF produces a range of performance chemicals, coatings and functional polymers. Latex and acrylic emulsions require the use of drying retardants suitable for water-based coatings. Lanolin is used commercially in many industrial products ranging from rustproof coatings to lubricants. Humectants are sometimes used as a component of antistatic coatings for plastics. Carbon nanotube conductive coatings are a prospective replacement. It is produced industrially on a large scale for applications in coatings and polymers. These substances are components of coatings and inks. The balance is mainly used as a pigment in inks, coatings and plastics. They are generally piston engines with combustion chamber parts lined with ceramic thermal barrier coatings. Cadmium is a common component of electric batteries, pigments, coatings, and electroplating.