Paint & Coatings Industry articles from January 2003

Paint & Coatings Industry archives from January 2003

2003--happy new year. (Viewpoint).
January 1, 2003... This past December, while writing Christmas cards and reflecting on the personalized messages I put in the cards, I thought about those of you who we work with as we put out each issue of PCI. The message this month is intended for you....

NPCA, industry seek revisions in AIM VOC initiatives in Northeast. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... WASHINGTON -- A recently enacted VOC rule on architectural and industrial maintenance (AIM) coatings in Delaware will "effectively ban" numerous coatings products manufactured for sale in the state, the National Paint & Coatings Association...

Remaining claim dismissed in Maryland lead lawsuit. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... WASHINGTON -- A Maryland judge has effectively dismissed the remaining case in a lawsuit filed by the state of Maryland and initiated by prominent Baltimore lawyer Peter Angelos against former manufacturers of lead-based paint and pigments, the...

Correction.
January 1, 2003... In the December 2002 issue, a product name was inadvertently misspelled. EMD Chemicals Inc., formerly EM Industries Inc., is a producer of Iriodin, for use in plastics, ink and coatings. PCI regrets the error.

DuPontTi[O.sub.2] business announces changes to unit. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... WILMINGTON, DE -- DuPont Titanium Technologies announced several key management and marketing appointments following the restructuring of the business into two distinct focus areas--the "core" Ti[O.sub.2] business and "business extensions."...

Cal Poly appoints Raymond Fernando to new coatings chair. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA -- California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo recently appointed Raymond Fernando, a former research chemist with Air Products and Chemicals Inc., as the first holder of the Arthur C. Edwards Endowed Chair for...

Economic upturn seen in 2003, but CEPE leaders express concern on EU chemicals policy. (The European View).
January 1, 2003... BRUSSELS -- Domestic sales of coatings in Europe were flat in 2001 compared to the previous year, while sales of printing ink declined, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry (CEPE) reported at the...

The environment: number 1 topic at ACT `02 in Katowice, Poland. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... The 5th International Advances in Coatings Technology Conference (ACT `02), held November 5-8, 2002, in Katowice, Poland, clearly showed the direction in which coatings are headed in Eastern Europe: environmental aspects are becoming more...

UCB Group to acquire Solutia resins business. (Mergers and Acquisitions).
January 1, 2003... DROGENBOS, Belgium -- UCB Group and Solutia Inc. announced a definitive agreement under which UCB will acquire Solutia's Resins, Additives and Adhesives businesses for $500 million in cash, plus a $10 million exclusivity fee. The...

CPS Color acquires COROB group. (Mergers and Acquisitions).
January 1, 2003... HELSINKI -- CPS Color, a major supplier of tint systems, announced an agreement to acquire COROB Group, a manufacturer of automatic tinting equipment, from Swisslog AG. Terms of the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals, were...

Noveon acquires CDI Dispersions assets. (Mergers and Acquisitions).
January 1, 2003... CLEVELAND -- Noveon Inc. said it has acquired certain assets, technology and other intellectual property from CDI Dispersions, Newark, NJ, and announced plans to expand manufacturing capacity at its Noveon Hilton Davis subsidiary in Cincinnati....

CHEMARK Consulting acquired by PGPHILLIPS. (Mergers and Acquisitions).
January 1, 2003... SOUTHERN PINES, NC -- PGPHILLIPS & Associates Inc. has acquired The CHEMARK Consulting Group, Cincinnati, a consulting firm focusing on the coatings and related industries. PGPHILLIPS President Phil Phillips also said his company will adopt...

Call for papers issued for RadTech Europe. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... HANNOVER, Germany -- The RadTech Europe Association and Vincentz Verlag announced plans for the RadTech Europe 2003 Conference and Exhibition, scheduled for Nov. 3-5, 2003, in Berlin. Conference organizers also issued a call for papers for the...

Plans announced for pigments conference. (Industry News).
January 1, 2003... PORTLAND, ME -- Intertech announced plans for its ninth international colorants conference, "High Performance & Functional Pigments 2003," scheduled for April 28-30, at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Buckhead Hotel, Atlanta. The conference will...

Mississippi Lime Co. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Greg Andersen has joined Mississippi Lime Co. as Marketing manager for Specialty Products. Mississippi Lime, based in Alton, IL, is a supplier of precipitated calcium carbonate and calcium oxide.

SPX Corp. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Lightnin, a unit of SPX Corp., has named David Cameron Market manager for the Environmental Group of Lightnin-Americas.

Wacker Chemical Corp. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Wacker Chemical Corp. has named Lewis P. Clark vice president--Sales Coordination and Distribution. Clark, formerly vice president of the Resins, Silanes and Silica business unit of Wacker Silicones, will direct the company's national sales...

Plasticolors Inc. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Brian Czuchra has joined Plasticolors Inc., a supplier of pigment and additive dispersions, as Technical Marketing specialist for the company's Coatings Business Unit. Czuchra has previously held sales and sales-support positions.

Premier Mill. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Premier Mill has named Kevin J. Haggerty National Sales manager and Dave Hoover Service Sales manager. Haggerty has more than 15 years of experience in the industrial-equipment industry, and Hoover has 11 years of experience in the...

GretagMacbeth. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... GretagMacbeth has named Bob Olmsted Regional manager, Midwest Area, and Donna Annacone director of Sales, Americas South. Olmsted previously held various sales and product-management positions with the company, most recently as Product...

Farbe & Lack. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... The German coatings-industry journal Farbe & Lack has presented its annual Farbe & Lack prize, recognizing a young author of an outstanding coatings research paper, to Andreas Plagge for his paper on the development of non-toxic, thin cellulose...

Clariant Pigments & Additives. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Clariant Pigments & Additives has named Petra Rothe Marketing manager/Coatings for the NAFTA region. She was formerly executive assistant to Gunther Hencken, head of Clariant's Pigments & Additives Division in Frankfurt, Germany.

Elementis Specialties. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Christopher J. Sieto has joined Elementis Specialties as Market Development manager, with responsibility for market growth of waterborne products for coatings.

Degussa Corp. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Degussa Corp. has named Stefan Uhrlandt Technical Market manager, Silica & Silicates, with responsibility for silica and silicates applied technology in the NAFTA region.

Paar Physica USA. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Pete Wheeler has joined Paar Physica USA, the U.S. distributor of Physica research and quality-control grade rheometers and viscometers, as Consulting rheologist for the Midwest. The company also named Reinhard Eberl National Service manager.

Ferro Corp. (Names In The News).
January 1, 2003... Ferro Corp. announced the resignation of Bret W. Wise as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Wise plans to pursue an opportunity in the life-sciences industry, the company said. J. William Heitman, vice president, Finance, will...

Akzo Nobel. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... Akzo Nobel, Arnhem, The Netherlands, said it may cut more jobs in its coatings and pharmaceutical businesses in addition to previously announced reductions, according to news reports in Europe. The company declined to provide specifics on the...

Behr Process Corp. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... Behr Process Corp., Santa Ana, CA, has been named a "Partner of the Year" by Home Depot for the home-center chain's paint department. The award recognizes a consistent high level of service and was presented during The Home Depot's annual...

Meeting & shows. (2003 Calendar).
January 1, 2003... February 3-5 Ti[O.sub.2] 2003 Intertech Miami, FL 207/781.9800 www.intertechusa.com 3-7 Short Course: Coatings Science and Technology Polymers and Coatings Program, California Polytechnic State...

Ciba Specialty Chemicals. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland, announced that the company's quinacridone pigments currently sold in the United States under the MONASTRAL brand name will be marketed as CINQUASIA pigments, effective Dec. 1, 2002. The change will...

Degussa. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... Degussa, Parsippany, NJ, announced the start-up of operations at a new aminosilanes production facility at the company's Mobile, AL, manufacturing site. The facility doubles production capacity for the company's Sivento silanes products, which...

The Dow Chemical Co. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, MI, said its UCAR Emulsion Systems business unit will idle the latex production facility at Bayamon, Puerto Rico, by Jan. 31. The unit produces latex emulsions for use in architectural coatings. Customers will be...

DuPont Co. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... DuPont Co,, Wilmington, DE, has given a Marketing Excellence Award to a team from the company's Textiles & Interiors Nylon Intermediates, Specialties and Polymer business that developed the Vapor Hazard Ratio (VHR), which is designed to aid in...

Eastman Chemical Co. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, TN, announced plans to move the coatings-technology organization currently located at the company's Carpentersville, IL, facility and consolidate those operations with the coatings-technology organization...

EM Industries Inc., Hawthorne, NY, announced a change in the business's name to EMD Chemicals Inc., effective Jan. 1. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... EM Industries Inc., Hawthorne, NY, announced a change in the business's name to EMD Chemicals Inc., effective Jan. 1. The action reflects a "global branding strategy" being implemented by the business's parent company, Merck KGA of Germany, to...

Reichhold Inc. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... Reichhold Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, said it is expanding production of glycidyl methacrylate acrylic (GMA) resins by 4 million lbs. per year at the company's facility in Vienna, with the added capacity expected to become operational in...

Unimin Corp. (Company News).
January 1, 2003... Unimin Corp., New Canaan, CT, announced plans to expand production capacity for micronized nepheline syenite used in architectural and industrial coatings applications. The expansion, at the company's Nephton and Blue Mountain, Ontario,...

Q What surfactant can provide excellent wetting in my high-speed, waterborne industrial maintenance coatings? (Ask the Expert).
January 1, 2003... A The ability of a surfactant to reduce the surface tension of water is important because it enables the wetting of low-surface-energy subtrates. In many high-speed coating application processes, such as spray coating, new interfaces are...

Review: Essays in Ink Chemistry.
January 1, 2003... By Joy T. Kunjappu, D.Sc., Ph.D. Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 2001, 136 pp ISBN 1-59033-111-7 "Essays in Ink Chemistry" is an interesting book that has been developed by Dr. Kunjappu. It is a book that gives the reader what the...

Covered: resins company has floor coating needs.
January 1, 2003... Eliokem (formerly Specialty Chemicals business of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.) is a global specialty resin producer, offering start-to-finish service for niche coatings applications, particularly on concrete surfaces, from initial product...

Talc: shape and form meet function.
January 1, 2003... Talc is a magnesium silicate mineral with the simplified molecular formula [Mg.sub.3][Si.sub.4][O.sub.10][(OH).sub.2]. The talc products used by the coatings industry contain the mineral talc, but also accessory minerals in varying amounts....

Laying the foundation for new technologies: 3M creates a new building block for its fluorosurfactants.
January 1, 2003... Fluorosurfactants have been an integral part of the coatings industry's technology advance. These products appear in virtually all media--water- or solventborne--and function well at reducing surface tension levels more effectively than...

Metallic pigments for powder coatings.
January 1, 2003... Metallic finishes have a luster and brilliance that sets them apart from finishes produced by conventional pigments. For many applications, a metallic effect is highly desirable and can be achieved by adding aluminum, gold bronze or pearlescent...

Flammability and the chlorinated solvents.
January 1, 2003... The low flammability of the chlorinated solvents is one important consideration for using them in surface cleaning and product formulations. Methylene chloride (MEC), perchloroethylene (PCE or perc), and trichloroethylene (TCE) are highly...

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: epoxy additives and resins for industrial coatings. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) is a leading global supplier of industrial gases and related equipment, and specialty and intermediate chemicals. For industrial coatings applications, Air Products globally supplies epoxy curing...

Company capabilities. (Advertisement).
January 1, 2003... Headquarters: Clariant Corporation 4000 Monroe Road, Charlotte NC 28205 E-mail: info@pa.clariant.com Pigments Business Unit 500 Washington Street, Coventry, RI 02816 Tel: 800/441-4414 Fax: 401/823-2565 Additives Business...

Eastman Coatings. (Advertisement).
January 1, 2003... About Eastman Coatings For 80 years, Eastman Coatings has been a leading provider of high-quality raw materials and services for the global paint and coatings industry. Today, Eastman offers a comprehensive product portfolio for use in...

International Specialty Products. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... International Specialty Products (ISP) is a world leader in industrial biocides formulated for the protection and preservation of paints, coatings and many other related products at every stage in the products' life cycle: manufacturing,...

Johnson Polymer. (Tech focus:raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Johnson Polymer is a leading global supplier of high quality, innovative, environmentally driven polymers for the printing and packaging; industrial and architectural coatings; and plastics industries. We are the resource globally as a...

MD-Both Industries. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Company Description MD-Both Industries was formed in 1982 as a partnership between Wolstenholme International Ltd. in the U.K. and Schlenk Metallpulver in Germany. As a result of this partnership, MD-Both Industries is backed by over 150...

Jyoti Ceramic Industries. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Jyoti Ceramics is a leading player in the field of industrial ceramics in the global market. Two separate ceramic manufacturing plants of modern construction, occupy over 12,000 sq.mtrs of floor space with lush green gardens all around creating...

Wayne Pigment Corp. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Simple is not the first word that comes to mind for most coatings industry manufacturers. Wayne Pigment Corp., however, has found success developing simple solutions to complex problems. Moving beyond the industrial sector into the...

King Industries. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... King Additive Innovation From the introduction of a unique line of synthetic sulfonates to replace critically scarce natural sulfonates during World War II to pioneering the use of acid catalysts to cure amino crosslinked coatings in the...

Lyondell Chemical Company. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Leading, Listening, Winning Together in the Coatings Industry As a leading supplier of raw materials to the coatings industry, Lyondell Chemical Company and its partner Equistar Chemicals, LP, are committed to our customers' success. We...

Nacan Products Limited. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Let our team, work for you. In this hectic age, do you have the time to manipulate formulas? At Nacan Products Limited, we draw upon global resources and knowledgeable, experienced, technical service and sales staff to develop quality...

Troy Corporation. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Performance Products... Worldwide A World of Difference, for a World of Applications... Troy is a global leader in preservative and additive materials for the manufacture of high performance consumer and industrial products,...

Unimin Corporation. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... MINEX[R]--Add Function and Performance to Powder Coatings MINEX[R] delivers premium performance and proven value to the wide range of baked UV/EB and IR cured powder coating systems. MINEX is a high brightness filler/extender with unique...

VanDeMark. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... For more than 60 years, VanDeMark has produced specialty chemicals to meet the needs of business and industry. Located in Lockport, New York, VanDeMark is a subsidiary of ISOCHEM/Groupe SNPE, and is certified in accordance with ISO 9000 quality...

Acima AG. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Date Founded: 1957 Company description: Headquartered in Switzerland and part of Rohm and Haas Company, ACIMA is a leader in the development of formulations that solve microbial problems for customers worldwide. ACIMA applies its...

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: specialty additives for waterborne systems. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE: APD) is an international supplier of industrial gases and related equipment and specialty and intermediate chemicals. Our 17,000 employees working at operations in over 30 countries are committed to...

Alberdingk Boley, Inc. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Thingk Alberdingk For * Acrylics, Styrene Acrylics & Urethane Acrylic Co-polymers * Self Cross-linking Acrylics, Styrene Acrylics and Urethane Acrylic Co-polymers * Polyurethane Dispersions based on Castor Oil, Polycarbonate,...

BASF Corporation, architectural coatings raw materials business unit. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Date Founded 1865--BASF Aktiengesellschaft (AG) incorporated 1986--BASF Corporation, the North American affiliate of BASF AG, formed Company Description BASF is the world's leading chemical company with sales of approximately...

Buckman Laboratories. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... In today's competitive marketplace, economic issues, environmental regulations, and concerns over quality create constant challenges for the coatings industry. More now than ever before, you expect a supplier to deliver more for your money than...

Cook Composites and Polymers. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Inspired by solution-oriented research, readiness to assist customers, and its long-held reputation for product innovation, CCP consistently brings to the marketplace the best in product technologies. Earlier in 2002, company CEO Charles E....

ECKART America L.P. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... ECKART... A Global Partner for Metallic and Special Effects ECKART is the world's largest producer of metallic powders, pastes, dispersions and concentrates for the paint and coatings industry. Founded in 1876, Eckart has grown to be the...

Eliokem. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Eliokem is the result of the spin-off of the global Specialty Chemicals business of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The company combines the broad expertise of many years in specialty chemicals with the dynamism of a new company. Eliokem...

Engelhard Corporation: new Engelhard Synergy[TM] pigments bring extraordinary value to coatings and plastics. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... The Synergy[TM] line of color pigments from Engelhard represents a truly "synergistic" use of Engelhard's expertise in surface chemistry and materials science to bring extraordinary value to customers in the coatings and plastics industry. ...

Engelhard Corporation: achieve the look of liquid in a powder coating with new Engelhard Cyclo[TM] sparkle silver pigment. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Powder coaters often seek to achieve the look of a liquid coating with luster, depth, sparkle, or a metallic sheen. But the pigments that create those effects can be difficult to work with in powder coatings. Now, new effect pigment technology...

Huntsman Polyurethanes adhesives, coatings & elastomers (ACE): dedicated customer service. Tailor-Made Products. Global Approach. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Huntsman Polyurethanes offers an extensive range of MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) products and MDI-based prepolymers, TDI (toluene diisocyanate) and TDI-based prepolymers, as well as polyester and polyether polyols, for the formulation of...

Lubrizol Coating Additives. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Lubrizol Coating Additives is a global supplier of high-performance additives to the coatings industry. We are dedicated to providing innovative solutions to the problems facing manufacturers of paints and coatings. Broad Product Range ...

Micro Powders Inc.: supplying micronized wax additives to the ink, paint and coatings industries. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Micro Powders Inc. 580 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY 10591 Tel: 914/793.4058 Fax: 914/472.7098 Web site: www.micropowders.com E-mail: mpi@micropowders.com Micro Powders Inc. is a major supplier of specialized micronized...

Reichhold. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Reichhold, a subsidiary of Dainippon Ink & Chemicals (DIC), is one of the world's leading suppliers of synthetic materials to the composites and coating and performance resins industries. Internationally recognized for producing high...

Sartomer Company. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Profile Sartomer Company, based in Exton, Pennsylvania, is the premier global supplier of specialty chemicals for ultraviolet and electron beam (UV/EB), peroxide, two-part epoxy/amine, and hybrid cured-in-place applications. Over the past...

Soluol Chemical Co. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... Since 1931 SOLUOL has established a reputation for outstanding quality, customer service and a willingness to develop products to meet individual needs. "ONE-ON-ONE" customer care is responsible for our growth in many of the unique markets we...

Halox. (Tech focus: raw materials).
January 1, 2003... HALOX[R] XTAIN[R] L-66 is a strong ionic, alkaline-base liquid tannin stain inhibitor for use in water-base coatings for wood. The unique chemical composition of XTAIN[R] L-66 provides excellent tannin stain blocking properties but also...

The Shepherd Color Company. (Tech focus:raw materials).
January 1, 2003... The Shepherd Color Company is the world's leading manufacturer of high-performance ceramic pigments for the paint and coatings industry. These pigments are impervious to heat, chemical attack, and exterior elements, such as ultraviolet light,...

Internet directory.
January 1, 2003... ADDITIVES Air Products www.airproducts.com/chemicals Borchers Additives, A Bayer Company www.borchers.com Chartwell International Inc. www.chartwellintl.com Clariant Corporation www.paclariant.com Crompton OSi Specialties...

Q How can I produce a high-performance industrial flooring system with high permeability? (Ask the Expert).
January 1, 2003... A Moisture vapor transmission is currently a significant challenge in the development of high-performance industrial floor coatings. In response to this market need, Air Products has developed Anquamine[R] 701 curing agent, based on a polymeric...

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Materials Watch).
January 1, 2003... Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has expanded its multifunctional surfactant offerings based on Gemini technology with new additions to the EnviroGem[R] surfactant family of products. Products include EnviroGem AD01 surfactant, a defoaming...

BASF Corp. (Materials Watch).
January 1, 2003... BASF Corp.'s Architectural Coatings Raw Materials Business Unit has introduced Acronal Optive[R] 130, a break-through in exterior and interior architectural coatings in zero and low VOC formulation. With just one polymer, flat, low sheen and...

DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise. (Materials Watch).
January 1, 2003... DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise has introduced DryFilm RA and LXE dispersions, featuring a PTFE base that further improves the lubricity, thermal and chemical stability, nonflammability, and antistick properties of DuPont[TM] DryFilm...

Eastman Chemical Co. (Materials Watch).
January 1, 2003... Eastman Chemical Co. through its Accurate Dispersions Division announced the introduction of Maxitoner industrial colorants. These colorants deliver consistency of color for industrial tinting systems for high-performance, solventborne...

Engelhard. (Materials Watch).
January 1, 2003... Engelhard Lumina[R] Brass pigment is a mica-based, non-metallic effect pigment that brings a luxurious, metallic gold effect to plastics, coatings and inks. It features increased chromaticity, higher color purity and more brightness and hiding...

Rhodia Inc. (Materials Watch).
January 1, 2003... Rhodia Inc. offers two new specialty monomers that provide improved adhesion in a variety of acrylic polymer and resin systems. Sipomer PAM-100 and Sipomer- 200, are highly reactive radically polymerizable monomers designed for water- and...