Paint & Coatings Industry articles from February 2001

Paint & Coatings Industry archives from February 2001

The More the Merrier.
February 1, 2001... We are pleased and proud to announce the acquisition of Industrial Paint & Powder magazine from Cahners Business Information, effective immediately. This acquisition brings to our company the resources of one of the best-known industry...

EPA Issues New, More Stringent Standards Defining Lead Hazards.
February 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- The U.S. EPA has issued new, tougher standards used to define dangerous levels of lead in old paint, dust and sail. The standards will affect guidelines followed by state and local government agencies in seeking remedial actions...

Whitman Appointment Seen as Signal of Moderate Stance on Environment.
February 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- Don't expect to see a radical retreat from existing environmental policies at the federal level following George W. Bush's inauguration as president, say interested observers of the nation's environmental and regulatory...

ASTM Coatings Panel Seeks Participants for ISO Test-Method Review.
February 1, 2001... WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA -- ASTM Committee D01 on Paints and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications issued an invitation to volunteers and other participants for the review and critiquing of ISO test methods for paint and varnishes. The...

Joseph Koleske Honored For Editing of Manual on Testing of Coatings.
February 1, 2001... WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA -- Joseph V. Koleske, a senior consultant with Consolidated Research and a contributing editor of Pa magazine, has received the ASTM Charles B. Dudley Medal Award for his work in editing the Paint and Coating Testing...

M.A.B. Names Renshaw General Manager, Sales VP.
February 1, 2001... BROOMALL, PA -- M.A.B. Paints has named James E. Renshaw general manager/vice president of Sales, with responsibility for sales and profitability of M.A.B.'s network of retail stores and sales representatives. Renshaw was formerly...

RPM Names New CFO; Company Sees Some Gains from Restructuring Program.
February 1, 2001... MEDINA, OH -- RPM Inc. announced that Michael E. Steele, formerly vice president of Newell Rubbermaid Inc., has been named RPM vice president and chief financial officer. Steele succeeds David P Reif, who was earlier named president of RPM's...

Mergers and Acquisitions.
February 1, 2001... Spraylat Acquires Valspar Mirror-Coatings Unit MOUNT VERNON, NY -- Spraylat Corp. has acquired the assets of The Valspar Corp.'s Mirror Coatings Division in a transaction that allows Valspar to comply with a Federal Trade Commission...

Eastman Announces Plans for Expansions in U.S., Asia.
February 1, 2001... KINGSPORT, TN -- Eastman Chemical Co. announced an agreement with Sinopec Qilu Petrochemical Corp. of China to build "world-scale" derivative plants for the production of Texanol ester alcohol and TXIB plasticizer in Zibo, China. Texanol ester...

Pigments Conference Scheduled For April.
February 1, 2001... ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The Color Pigments Manufacturers Association (CPMA) has announced plans for the next in a series of color-pigments conferences, scheduled for April 17-19 in Chicago. The conference will address business and technical...

Product Price Adjustments.
February 1, 2001... Reichhold Inc. Products: Acrylic emulsions, solution acrylics, styrene-acrylic emulsions, polyvinyl acetate homopolymers and copolymers, vinyl acetate-ethylene emulsions, ...

Coatings Groups Announce Plans for Annual Symposium.
February 1, 2001... CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland and Pittsburgh Societies for Coatings Technology announced plans for the groups' 44th annual Technical Symposium and exhibition, scheduled for May 17-18 at the Cleveland Airport Marriott Hotel. The event carries the...

NAMES IN THE NEWS.
February 1, 2001... CHEMCENTRAL Corp. has named Andrew Allen sales manager of the company's Orlando, FL, location and Neil Morgan general manager of the Dallas branch. Allen was formerly a sales representative at CHEMCENTRAL's Indianapolis branch, and joined the...

COMPANY NEWS.
February 1, 2001... Air Products and Chemicals Inc., Lehigh Valley, PA, announced the launch of an enhanced Internet ordering system, named AP Direct[TM] and located at www.airproducts.com/apdirect. The system allows sorting of products alphabetically or by...

Third Quarter, 2000.
February 1, 2001... The third quarter results of the coatings industry indicate a slowdown has begun. As economic reports show, a slowdown is likely. The stock market has long shown to be a leading indicator of a downturn of the economy as a whole, and the...

Balancing Act.
February 1, 2001... Suppliers look to incremental expansions to keep pace with rising global Ti[O.sub.2] demand Users of titanium dioxide (Ti[O.sub.2]) pigments can look forward to relatively modest price changes and price stability in most regions during...

Industrial Coating Advances in the Blink of an Eye.
February 1, 2001... Recent advances in photochemistry, exposure systems and resins are driving UV curing to the next level of durability and feasibility. Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Fusion UV Systems Inc. and UCB Chemicals are bringing UV curing innovation --...

Independent Performance Evaluation of the Zinger[R] Horizontal Media Mill.
February 1, 2001... Manufacturers must weigh three key factors when selecting a horizontal media mill for a wet-grinding process: capital equipment cost, operating cost and milling performance. Often the deciding factor is the mill's performance. The...

FORMS OF color.
February 1, 2001... Color plays an important role in our everyday lives. We use color to effect the way we react, feel and look. We use color in very functional ways to convey warnings such as for traffic signals and road signs. We also choose specific colors and...

deSigns of the Times Or, t-ing off.
February 1, 2001... The "t Test" is not the struggle a golfer goes through to start each hole. Instead, it is a basic method to help make decisions when comparing families of data. This article discusses how population statistics differs from sample statistics,...

Process Pipe Network Pigging.
February 1, 2001... Product Recovery Assists Sherwin-Williams, Sun Chemical and Others Pipe pigging is the propelling of a flexible elastomer projectile called a pig through a piping system. The pig can be driven with plant air, nitrogen gas, or a liquid...

Sherwin-Williams Site Takes Flight.
February 1, 2001... Aerospace-Coatings Unit Looks to New Facility to Add Thrust to Already Strong Growth Trajectory ANDOVER, KS -- On the wings of the longest continuous economic expansion in U.S. history -- and successful product and marketing strategies --...

Dispersers Speeds Product Testing up to 25% in New UltraKote R&D Lab.
February 1, 2001... Product consistency is never more crucial to a company's success than when launching new capital-intensive product lines. When UltraKote Products, a Phoenix, AZ-based coatings manufacturer for the construction industry decided to expand its...

Survey of CEOs: Challenges and Opportunities for Small and Mid-Sized Paint Companies.
February 1, 2001... This material was originally presented at the NPCA Annual Meeting in Chicago in October 2000. As the title indicates, the presentation was based upon interviews conducted with the owners and CEOs of 25 small and medium-sized coatings companies....

Catalytic Oxidizer Adjusts to High or Low VOC Concentrations.
February 1, 2001... When UCAR Emulsion Systems, Cary, NC, major supplier of latex to the paint industry, and a business unit within Union Carbide Corp., looked for a way to reduce the emissions of vinyl acetate and other VOCs during its manufacturing process, it...

Buying an International Coatings Company with No Money Down.
February 1, 2001... You don't always need tons of money to become an owner of a corporation. Opportunities arise from time to time when a company runs out of steam and needs to hand over the reins to someone who can resurrect the business. In 1999 I had the unique...

EUROPEAN COATINGS SHOW: The World Exhibition for the Coatings Industry.
February 1, 2001... Nurnberg, Germany, becomes the world's largest hub of the coatings industry with a range of products, information and events never seen before at the sixth European Coatings Show, scheduled for April 3-5. In addition, six congresses will take...

WORLD DYES AND PIGMENTS.
February 1, 2001... Demand to reach $14.2 Billion by 2004 World demand for dyes and organic pigment to increase over 5.2% per year to $14.2 billion in 2004, with volume demand reaching 1.5 million metric tons over the same period. Overall gains in the organic...

product and literature showcase.
February 1, 2001... Website Flex Products Inc. www.colorshift.com Visit for product and technical information about ChromaFlair[R] light interference pigments -- the ColorShift[TM] Effects Leader. ChromaFlair[R] pigments add new ColorShift[TM]...

internet directory.
February 1, 2001... Alar Engineering N/A Bayer Corp. www.bayerus.com/coatingsandcolorants BJ Pipeline N/A Bodycote Ortech www.na.bodycote-mt.com Brookfield Engineering www.brookfieldengineeringcom Buckman Laboratories...

PRODUCTS.
February 1, 2001... Spectrometer SPECTRO Analytical Instruments The GDA series of glow discharge spectrometers is now available. The series features the Spectruma GDA and Spectruma GDA 750, two instruments that offer a combination of innovative analytical...

LITERATURE.
February 1, 2001... Cannon Instrument Co. Products and Services for Viscosity Measurement includes several products for testing coatings. The LV 2000 rotational viscometer takes quick and accurate measurements of viscosities ranging from 10 to 900,000...

MATERIALS WATCH.
February 1, 2001... Akcros Chemicals has launches a new addition to its Vulcan-bond range of bonding agents for PVC plastic coating of synthetic fiber fabrics. Vulcabond KB offers a higher level of efficiency than the company's other Vulcabond VP product, enabling...

IN-SITE.
February 1, 2001... Since its debut in the September 2000 issue, we continue to receive positive feedback from our readers on the In-Site department. Please let us know what you think by sending an e-mail message to PCI@bnp.com. And if you've found helpful...