“…Various vegetable oils such as linseed, soybean, safflower, sunflower, canola, rapeseed, rubber seed, castor, tung, Annona squamosa and Pongamia glabra are used in paints and coatings industry to produced different polymers viz. alkyd, polyesteramide (Shende et al, 2004;Ahmad et al, 1999), polyetheramide (Alam et al, 2004), polyepoxies (Sharmin et al, 2007), poly (amine amides) (Alam et al, 2009b;Ahmad et al, 2006), polyurethane (Petrovic, 2008) and poly(esteramideurethane) (Alam et al, 2009a). Pongamia glabra oil is a non drying oil; only small portion of the oil is reported to be utilised in soap, leather tanning and lubricant industries (Ahmad et al, 2003).…”