Paint & Coatings Industry articles from March 2001

Paint & Coatings Industry archives from March 2001

Don't Miss This Event!
March 1, 2001... If there is any way that you can attend the European Coatings Show, then do it! This bi-annual event is almost mandatory for those involved in the coatings industry. Associated with the show is the 6th Nurnberg Congress -- "Creative Advances in...

Cities of San Francisco, Oakland Join Lawsuit Against Former Lead-Paint, Pigment Producers.
March 1, 2001... SAN FRANCISCO -- The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have joined a class-action lawsuit against former lead-paint and lead-pigment manufacturers following a California court's rejection of most of the claims made in an earlier suit filed by...

Sherwin-Williams to Take $352 Million Charge, Explore Sale of Two Units.
March 1, 2001... CLEVELAND -- The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced that it will take a fourth-quarter 2000 charge of approximately $352 million for "impairment of long-lived assets" involving goodwill associated with the company's Cleaning Solutions, Thompson's...

Correction.
March 1, 2001... In the January 2001 issue, a product name in the Suppliers' Spotlight section for Crompton Corp. was incorrect. The correct product name is CoatOSil[R] 1770 Performance & Usage Guide.

Dow-Union Carbide Merger Creates Second-Biggest U.S. Chemical Company.
March 1, 2001... MIDLAND, MI -- The Dow Chemical Co. completed its $7.3-billion acquisition of Union Carbide Corp. after agreeing to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) stipulation that Dow must divest intellectual property related to the production of plastic...

Eastman to Split into Two Companies; Deavenport to Retire.
March 1, 2001... KINGSPORT, TN -- Eastman Chemical Co., a major supplier of raw materials for coatings, ink and adhesives, announced that it will pursue a plan to split the company into two independent public companies -- Specialty Chemicals and Plastics and...

Frank N. Jones to Receive Tess Award in Coatings.
March 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- Frank N. Jones, professor and director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center at Eastern Michigan University, has been named the recipient of the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2001....

CEPE Proposes `Harmonized' VOC-Reduction Proposal for Architectural Coatings.
March 1, 2001... BRUSSELS -- CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry, has proposed a "harmonized" plan for control of VOCs in decorative (architectural) coatings in European Union countries. The proposal has been...

Mergers and Acquisitions.
March 1, 2001... Kool Seal Inc. Acquires ORD Products Assets TWINSBURG, OH -- Kool Seal Inc., a manufacturer of reflective roof coatings, announced a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of ORD Products Inc., including the Snow Roof Systems brands,...

NPCA Revising HMIS, Plans to Develop New Chemical Ratings Guide.
March 1, 2001... WASHINGTON -- The National Paint & Coatings Association announced that it is revising its Hazardous Materials Identification System (HMIS), and said the revisions are expected to be completed in early 2002. A new project, an HMIS Chemical...

Robert A. Taylor Named to Head Sherwin-Williams' Chemical Coatings.
March 1, 2001... CLEVELAND -- The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced that Robert A. Taylor, formerly president and chief operating officer of Lilly Industries Inc., has joined Sherwin-Williams as president of the Chemical Coatings Business Unit of the Paint Stores...

Product Price Adjustments.
March 1, 2001... Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Products: Polyurethane prepolymers, curing agents and surface-modified particles Increases: 4-8[cts.]/lb, Airthane[R] and Versathane[R] polyurethane prepolymers ...

PPG Ends Sponsorship of Auto-Racing Events.
March 1, 2001... PITTSBURGH -- PPG Industries Inc. has declined to renew its sponsorship contracts with Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 2001 season as a result of "changing business objectives and customer requirements," the company said. PPG has sponsored...

New Coatings Company Targets Maintenance Market.
March 1, 2001... ST. LOUIS -- U.S. Coatings, a new company based in St. Louis, recently began production of a range of anticorrosion industrial maintenance products including inorganic zinc silicate coatings, epoxy zinc-rich coatings, epoxy primers and...

Pigments Conference Scheduled for April 17-19.
March 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...

NAMES IN THE NEWS.
March 1, 2001... Neogard, a division of Jones-Blair Co., has named George B. Bir regional manager of the company's Mountain States Region and Richard McGuire regional manager of the Midwest Region. Bir was formerly Rocky Mountain States regional manager for...

COMPANY NEWS.
March 1, 2001... Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings, Waukegan, IL, has been named a member of the U.S. EPA's National Environmental Achievement Track. The program is designed to recognize environmental leadership in the public and private sectors. The Waukegan...

NON Migratory Surfactants.
March 1, 2001... A New Tool for Emulsion Polymerization Around two million tons of polymer are produced annually by way of emulsion polymerization or other heterogeneous polymerization processes. These waterborne polymer dispersions are used in many...

Formulation Problem Solving with Dynamic Surface Tension Measurement.
March 1, 2001... The process of applying a fluid onto a substrate is a dynamic one w endive surfactants are used, causing surface tension to vary as the speed of the application varies. Surfactants are used to reduce surface tension in water- and solventborne...

Simple Coating Test Instruments.
March 1, 2001... With the large range of electronic test equipment currently on the market, users could understandably forget the simple, low-cost options that are available for the quality control of coating processes. From the assessment of surface...

Test Methods Used in Developing Technical Data Sheets.
March 1, 2001... While paint chemists review technical data sheets on a daily basis, we may not be familiar with some of the specific test methods used to develop this information. In this series of articles, we will present an overview of typical paint...

German RAL Color Sets the Standard for Color Measurement.
March 1, 2001... RAL Colors are familiar to anyone who works with color. During the over 70 years that the RAL German Institute for Quality Assurance and Certification has been standardizing colors, RAL Colors have gained a broad international acceptance,...

Industry Update: Molybdate Corrosion Inhibitors.
March 1, 2001... Calcium zinc phospho-molybdate and micronized molybdate corrosion inhibitors provide new benchmarks in corrosion-resistant performance. In response to the ongoing elimination of chromate- and lead-based pigments and the need to identify...

The Problem Solver.
March 1, 2001... Bob Black and Great Barrier Systems Bob Black is truly a coatings innovator. He has 10 patents to his credit and has developed many innovative products used around the world. One of his best known coating innovations is G-PRO[R], a patented...

Extenders.
March 1, 2001... Coatings formulators today cannot fail to acknowledge the contribution of polymer chemistry, which has provided a large and diverse selection of binders with which we can create our magic. The intricate manipulation of these binders now clearly...

Titanium Dioxide Pigmented Architectural Coatings.
March 1, 2001... Architectural coatings companies have struggled for years to develop formulating techniques that maximize the efficiency of the titanium dioxide (Ti[O.sub.2]) that is used as the primary pigment in white paint. Typically, Ti[O.sub.2] is the...

White Opacifiers in Paint.
March 1, 2001... Coatings were once based on naturally occurring polymers; currently, most of them are synthetic polymer-based. Polymers in general are clear or opaque white or near white. It is often necessary to make them opaque. Coatings are applied...

PRODUCTS.
March 1, 2001... Software Datacolor This company announces the release of version 3.0.2 of its Colorite[TM] software. The Colorite product line ImageMaster, ImageMatch, and ImageSync -- as a part of the Datacolor CIMS[TM] (Color Information Management...

MATERIALS WATCH.
March 1, 2001... Arch Chemicals Inc. announced it has received a new U.S. EPA registration for a fungicide-algicide specially formulated for use in masonry paint. The action opens the way for the company to sell the product in the U.S. market. Zinc Omadine[R]...

LITERATURE.
March 1, 2001... Colorants Clariant This company's Pigments & Additives Division offers a wide, high quality range of colorants. A revised, 82-page brochure provides information on the range for the plastics industry and the coatings and printing inks...

CONSULTANTS' CORNER.
March 1, 2001... Consultants' Corner draws on the collective knowledge of several experts in the coatings industry. Please direct your questions to PCI's Online bulletin board at www.pcimag.com, or fax to Teresa Shaw at 248/244.6429. How does zinc dust...