Paint & Coatings Industry articles from June 2001

Paint & Coatings Industry archives from June 2001

A Smashing Success.
June 1, 2001... By all accounts, the European Coatings Show -- on its 10th-year anniversary -- was a great accomplishment. This success story began in Nurnberg in March 1991 under the title of "Farbe+Lack" with 181 exhibitors. Ten years later, the show has...

New VOC Regulations on AIM Coatings Looming in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic States.
June 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- At least three East Coast states Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania -- have begun the process of adopting a regional VOC regulation on architectural and industrial-maintenance (AIM) coatings as proposed by the Ozone Transport...

Exhibition Space Moving Briskly for COATING 2001 Conference, Exhibition.
June 1, 2001... CINCINNATI -- Approximately 250 companies have reserved exhibit space for COATING 2001, the semi-annual technical conference and exhibition on coating processes scheduled for Oct. 15-17 in Orlando, FL. An exhibitor total of 275-300 is...

NPCA Announces Plans for Annual Meeting Program.
June 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- The NPCA announced a number of program topics and speakers for the association's 2001 Annual Meeting, scheduled for Oct. 28-30 in Seattle. The NPCA said Andrew Lebby, managing partner of The Performance Group and an expert in...

NPCA Announces Launch of Online Member Directory.
June 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- The NPCA announced the launch of a new Online Directory offering information about NPCA member companies. The directory, located at the NPCA website at www.paint.org/directory, allows searches for listings by criteria such as...

BASF Names Blair, Laudenbach to Top Automotive Coatings Posts.
June 1, 2001... SOUTHFIELD, MI -- Rainer Michael Blair has been named to head BASF Coatings AG's Automotive OEM Coatings business unit. He succeeds Martin Laudenbach, who will become Group vice president of Automotive OEM Coatings at BASF Corp. in Southfield,...

PRA Conference to Focus on Compliance, Environmental Issues.
June 1, 2001... TEDDINGTON, U.K. -- The Paint Research Association (PRA) of the United Kingdom announced plans for the association's 18th International Conference, "Coatings, Compliance, Community and Care," scheduled for Nov. 12-14 in Brussels. The...

PRA Labs Conference Offers Review of Concept of Relative VOC Reactivity.
June 1, 2001... YPSILANTI, MI -- A detailed review of the concept of "maximum incremental reactivity" (MIR), a system of assessing the relative tendency of various solvents to contribute to ground-level ozone pollution, highlighted the recent semi-annual...

Mergers and Acquisitions.
June 1, 2001... Eastman Completes Purchase of Hercules Resins Units KINGSPORT, TN -- Eastman Chemical Co. announced the completion of the acquisition of Hercules Inc.'s hydrocarbon-resins and parts of its rosins resins business for approximately $244...

Akzo Nobel Begins Construction of Aerospace Coatings Production Facility.
June 1, 2001... SASSENHEIM, The Netherlands -- Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings recently began construction of a $2.7 million manufacturing facility for small batch production and color-blending operations for coatings products. The Aerospace Colour Centre,...

Toxic Air Emissions Rose 5% in 1999, EPA Says.
June 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- The amount of toxic wastes released into the air, water and land by U.S. industrial facilities rose by 5% in 1999, the most recent year for which data is available, the Environmental Protection Agency reported. The EPA...

Coatings Companies' Financial Results Reflect Slower Economy, Cost Increases.
June 1, 2001... Earnings reports from major coatings manufacturers for the first part of the year show the effects of a slowing economy, continued increases in raw-material and energy costs, and the impact of cold weather. The Sherwin-Williams Co., PPG...

Fashion, Technology Seen as Influences on Future Color Trends.
June 1, 2001... ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Trends in fashion and technology are seen as key forces in long-term color directions in key markets such as the office, health-care, retail, and hospitality/entertainment industries, the Color Marketing Group says in its...

Product Price Adjustments.
June 1, 2001... Cytec Industries Inc. Products: Products: CYMEL hexamethoxymethylmelamines (HMMM), CYMEL high imino, partially alkylated and mixed ether resins, CYCAT catalysts, and CYPLEX resins Increase: 4[cts.]/lb Product: POWDERLINK 1174 ...

NAMES IN THE NEWS.
June 1, 2001... The M.F. Cachat Co, has promoted Alison M. Azar to Midwest Regional Sales manager, with responsibility for sales in western Michigan, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado. She joined the company in 1995 and was most recently a...

Ask the Expert.
June 1, 2001... Q How can I get ultrahigh performance at a reasonable cost in a two-component waterborne coating system? A Today's marketplace requires that companies respond to five industry demands: higher performance, lower odor/VOC levels,...

COMPANY NEWS.
June 1, 2001... Arch Chemicals Inc., Cheshire, CT, has appointed Bossco Industries Inc., Houston, distributor of Arch's biocicte products to the coatings, adhesives, sealants and other industries in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and southern...

GLAZEtec: Where Broken Mirrors are Turned into Your Good Fortune!
June 1, 2001... New process transforms recycled materials into low-cost, environmentally friendly additives with unique properties. If breaking a mirror truly brought you seven years' bad luck, then the people at GLAZtec would be looking forward to...

NEW GENERATION OF Waterborne UV-Curable Resins.
June 1, 2001... In the wood coatings market, many different coating systems are used today: * 1 pack waterborne acrylics and polyurethanes, * 1 pack nitrocellulose based products, * 1 and 2 pack acid curing lacquers (also in combination with...

Coal Tar enamel -- The Technically Correct Pipeline Coating.
June 1, 2001... During the last hundred years, coal tar enamel (CTE) coatings have been used on more in-service pipelines than any other coating in the world. Millions of miles of steel pipeline have benefited from the corrosion protection offered by CTE. How,...

Fluoropolymer Emulsion for High-Performance Coatings.
June 1, 2001... This article describes a new particle number control method for VDF copolymer. It also discusses the morphology and the mixture state of the seeded polymer, and the weather resistance of the coating film prepared from this dispersion. For...

R&D Helps Para Paints Be First to Market.
June 1, 2001... Many paint dealers across Canada now feature architectural latex paints having lower VOCs and lower odor. Lower VOCs are necessary to comply with tighter regulatory requirements. Reduced odor is important to commercial painters,...

DYNAMIC SURFACE TENSION and Surface Energy in Ink Formulations and Substrates.
June 1, 2001... It is essential that ink formulators understand the principles and relationships of surface tension, and surface energy or "wetting tension." They must control coating transfer and adhesion by developing formulations that perform well under...

U.S. Demand for Printing Ink to Reach $5.6 Billion.
June 1, 2001... U.S. demand for printing ink is expected to expand nearly 5% per annum to $5.6 billion in 2004. Growth will be driven by a shift in the product mix toward more expensive digital and energy-cured ink, Gains are also predicted to be supported by...

EUROPE A Review of Printing Ink.
June 1, 2001... The overall market for printing ink grew in 1999, and this trend is expected to continue, though growth rates vary considerably between the European regions. Generally, the volume for packaging inks will grow with the respective GNP for each...

Waterborne Coatings Creating Global Opportunities for Coatings Formulators, Raw Material Suppliers and Equipment Manufacturers.
June 1, 2001... By the year 2010, penetration of waterborne industrial coatings will reach a level of over 30%, according to a new study by Irfab Chemical Consultants. The European waterborne industrial coatings industry was over 500,000 tonnes in 1999, and...

Emulsion Polymer Demand to Reach 5.5 Billion Pounds.
June 1, 2001... Emulsion polymer demand in the United States is expected to rise 5% annually to 5.5 million pounds in 2004. Market value is forecast to rise 5% per year to $4.8 billion, aided by shifts toward higher priced emulsions, particularly acrylics....

Container roundup.
June 1, 2001... B.A.G. Corp B.A.G. Corp. offers Pactainer ED[R] and Crohmiq[TM] -Blue Super Sack[R] Containers. Handling dry bulk products in flexible intermediate bulk containers can produce hazardous electrostatic discharges. Both the conductive...

website locator.
June 1, 2001... The Blade Shop www.bladeshop.com Visit this company's web site to review the many different styles of blades available for all makes of mixing and dispersion equipment to best suit any application. Ordering and customer-service information...

PRODUCTS.
June 1, 2001... Surface-Area Analyzers Horiba Instruments The new SA-9600 Multi-Point series of surface-area analyzers is capable of providing multi- and single-point BET, and total pore volume analysis. The series includes single and triple station...

LITERATURE.
June 1, 2001... Newsletter Premier Mill Corp. The second issue of this company's quarterly newsletter, "The Perfect Blend," is available. Topics of the newsletter include a Q&A, show wrapups, representative listings, literature and advertising....

MATERIALS WATCH.
June 1, 2001... Cardolite Corp. has developed a low-viscosity reactive modifier for epoxy resins, Cardolite[R] NX-4956 The material was designed to improve cure response and reduce film defects at low temperatures. It can increase early water resistance, and,...