Paint & Coatings Industry articles from March 2008

Paint & Coatings Industry archives from March 2008

Letters to the editor.(VIEWPOINT)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... We always encourage input, participation and healthy, respectful discussion from our readers. The following is a letter to the editor regarding an article in the February issue of PCI. The author's response is included as well. Dear Ms....

Ask the expert.
March 1, 2008... Q What are the advantages of cementitious epoxy flooring? A Recent advances in epoxy technology have created a curing agent that can be used in cementitious epoxy flooring with equal thermal shock and chemical resistance as cementitious...

NPCA and FSCT sign agreement to merge, ICE to be combined with ACS.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... WASHINGTON -- The National Paint & Coatings Association (NPCA) and the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement, which outlines the details of a prospective merger of the two organizations....

Dates changed for ChinaCoat 2008.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... HONG KONG -- The dates for ChinaCoat 2008 have changed from November 18-20, 2008, to November 26-28. 2008. The conference is scheduled to take place at the Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Guangzhou. China. Additional...

Safety Professionals donate to ASSE Scholarship.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... DES PLAINES, IL -- The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Foundation recently announced a donation of $6,000 from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) toward a new BCSP Scholarship Fund within the ASSE Foundation. ...

ASTM meeting slated for June.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, PA -- The ASTM D01 meeting, held in conjunction with the D02 meeting, will take place June 15-18, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada. The title for the June meeting is "Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and...

California Air Resources Board posts 2006/2007 reporting forms.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... SACRAMENTO, CA -- The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted the annual forms for reporting 2006 and 2007 architectural coatings data. The forms are located at www. arb.ca.gov/coatings/arch/rform.htm. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Atlas[R] sponsors weathering conference in Great Britain.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Conference news)
March 1, 2008... LINSENGERICHT, Germany -- The third Atlas[R] Technical Conference for Accelerated Ageing and Evaluation (ATCAE) will take place September 15-16, 2008, in Oxford, England. The conference will focus on the automotive industry. During the...

ASSE conference set for June.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Conference news)
March 1, 2008... DES PLAINES. IL -- The American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) Professional Development Conference (PDC) and Exposition, Safety 2008, will be held June 9-12, 2008. at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The sessions will feature...

FSCT announces board election results.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... BLUE BELL, PA -- The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) has announced the results of the election of members to its Board of Directors. Paul Delmonico of Old Western Paint Co. Inc., Chris Harding of Waterlox Coatings and...

Powder Coating Forum to be held in September.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... TROY, MI -- The Powder Coating Forum, formerly PC 101, will be held September 10-11, 2008, at the Embassy Suites, Cleveland, OH. The forum is a two-day educational seminar that will provide the basics of powder coating formulation and, for the...

FSCT offers Nanotechnology in Coatings Conference.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Conference news)
March 1, 2008... BLUE BELL. PA -- The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) is sponsoring the FSCT AC Series 2008 Nanotechnology in Coatings Conference. The conference, "Emerging Applications," will be held March 26-28, 2008. at the Caribe...

Meetings, shows and educational programs.(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... APRIL 9-11 2008 Global Marine Coatings Forum www.paint.org/meetings/marine_forum.cfm 20-23 World Adhesive Conference & Expo www.ascouncil.org/industry/wac 20-23 SSCT Annual Meeting and Technical Conference ...

Rohm and Haas opens Sanshui manufacturing facility.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... SHANGHAI, China -- Rohm and Haas Co. has officially launched the initial operations of its new manufacturing plant in Sanshui, Guangdong Province, China. To date, the company has invested approximately U.S. $10 million in this site, which will...

BYK to take over production location in Kempen.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... WESEL, Germany -- BYK-Chemie GmbH has a new production location in Germany. BYK will be taking over the company grounds, plant and staff at the Kempen location (Lower Rhine) from the ALTANA subsidiary ELANTAS. The Kempen location was...

Bayer MaterialScience sells part of its unsaturated polyester resins business.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... LEVERKUSEN, Germany -- Bayer MaterialScience has sold a part of its unsaturated polyester resins business to the Italian company Veneziani S.p.A. The products involved in the transaction are used primarily for the formulation of wood finishes,...

LANXESS Corp. recognized by SOCMA.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... PITTSBURGH -- The Basic Chemicals Business Unit of LANXESS Corp, located in Baytown. TX, has received a Gold Performance Improvement award for accomplishments in maintaining strong environmental, health, safety and security (EHS&S) efforts. The...

D.B. Becker Co. awarded Distributor of the Year by EPS/CCA Corp.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... CLINTON. NJ -- The D.B. Becker Co. Inc.. specialty chemical distributor, has been recognized as Distributor of the Year for 2007 by EPS/CCA Corp. Engineered Polymer Solutions (EPS) manufactures waterborne acrylic, styrenated acrylic,...

P.T. Hutchins Co. appointed distributor for BYK USA.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... WESEL. Germany -- BYE USA has appointed the P.T. Hutchins Co. as its distributor in the western and south western United States, PT Hutchins will represent the entire line of BYK additives for the paint and plastics markets in California....

INTERPOLYMER expands activities in Asia.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... HASSLOCH, Germany -- INTERPOLYMER has opened sales offices and laboratories in Shanghai, China, which will provide improved customer service in the Asia-Pacific region. Located in the XuHui Functional Materials Research Park, INTERPOLYMER...

R.T. Vanderbilt to discontinue product lines.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2008... NORWALK, CT -- R.T. Vanderbilt Co. Inc, has announced it will discontinue its NYTAL[R] and CERAMITALC[R] industrial talc product lines and cease talc production at its Gouverneur Talc Division in Gouverneur, NY, by the end of 2008. The company...

Ask the expert.
March 1, 2008... Q Why is having a low MFFT important for my coating formulation? A MFFT, or minimum film formation temperature, is the lowest temperature at which a coating will form a continuous film without cracking or losing film properties. It is...

Munzing acquires Hexion's liquid defoamer business.(MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS)
March 1, 2008... HEILBRONN, GERMANY -- In line with its growth strategy, MUNZING has acquired the liquid defoamer business from Hexion Speciality Chemicals B.V. The business will be integrated into MUNZING's existing Paper and Coatings Additives business. The...

Malvern acquires Viscotek Corp.(MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS)
March 1, 2008... MALVERN, UK -- Malvern Instruments has acquired Viscotek Corp., a provider of chromatography solutions for the characterization of natural and synthetic polymers and proteins. The acquisition of Viscotek brings new and complementary...

PPG Industries and Kansai Paint expand European alliance.(MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS)
March 1, 2008... PITTSBURGH -- PPG Industries and Kansai Paint have expanded their alliance, known as PPG Kansai Automotive Finishes (PKAF), to include the sale of automotive coatings to Japanese-owned or operated original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in...

Rohm and Haas to acquire polymer dispersions division of OY Forcit AB.(MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS)
March 1, 2008... PHILADELPHIA -- Rohm and Haas Co. has signed an agreement to acquire the FINNDISP division of OY Forcit AB, a Finnish paint emulsions operation. for approximately 60 million [euro]. Based in Hanko, Finland, this division of Forcit makes...

DSM acquires Soluol.(MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS)
March 1, 2008... HEERLEN, the Netherlands -- Royal DSM N.V. has announced the acquisition of the U.S.-based company Soluol, a developer, producer and marketer of high-performance urethane resins. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The...

FKI Logistex.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... FKI Logistex[R] has announced the appointment of Michael Bell to the position of Manager, Customer Service and Support, FKI Logistex Canada. Bell leads the recently expanded FKI Logistex regional service organization in Canada. He reports to...

Michelman.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Michelman has hired Alan Blake as the company's new CFO and Vice President. Assuming responsibility for all aspects of the finance and IT departments. Blake will lead the retooling of the company's IT infrastructure and financial systems to...

Tronox Inc.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Tronox Inc.. Oklahoma City, has named Michael J. Foster Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Foster has 15 years of legal experience in corporate, private and government settings, including 10 years in corporate practice.

Archway Sales Inc.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Bill Gleason, Regional Sales Manager for the Southern Region of Archway Sales Inc., has announced his retirement. Gleason has been with Archway for 31 years. Cris Watson has been promoted to Regional Sales Manager for the Southern Region....

Yuntinic Resources Inc.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Yuntinic Resources Inc. has named Stephen Hulme to be the General Manager of its global chemicals department. Headquartered in San Marco, CA, Yuntinic Resources is a subsidiary of Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd., based in China. [ILLUSTRATION...

PPG Industries.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... PPG Industries has named Pierre-Marie De Leener, former Chief Executive Officer of SigmaKalon Group, as PPG Senior Vice President, Architectural Coatings, Europe/Middle East and Africa (EMEA). De Lecher will report to Charles E. Bunch, PPG...

Sun Chemical.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Sun Chemical has appointed Rudi Lenz as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Lenz assumes leadership of Sun Chemical after serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Sun Chemical Board Member since 2002. He succeeds...

Sartomer Co.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Sartomer Co. has named Adam Oppenstein Senior Technical Sales Representative for the U.S. western region. In this position. Oppenstein is responsible for sales and technical support for all Sartomer products in Alaska. Arizona. California,...

Aakash Chemicals & Dye-Stuffs Inc.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Aakash Chemicals & Dye-Stuffs Inc. has announced that Miguel Santamaria has been named International Business Manager. Santamaria most recently served as Vice President, Americas, for CPS Color. He will initially focus on the Latin American...

PPG Industries.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... PPG Industries' industrial coatings business announced that Roger Sieja has been named Director of Market Development for coil coatings. In his new post, Sieja will be responsible for directing PPG's marketing efforts in the coil coating...

Allied PhotoChemical.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Allied PhotoChemical has promoted Dan Sweetwood from Director of Sales and Marketing to Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He has also been nominated and voted to be an Allied PhotoChemical Board Member.

Vergason Technology Inc.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vergason Technology Inc. (VTI) has announced that Gary Vergason, President and CEO of VTI, will be joining the Society of Vacuum Coaters Board of Directors. He was recently elected by the SVC membership for a...

Atlas Material Testing Technology.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Atlas Material Testing Technology has named Rick Weiler as the new President and CEO. Weiler joins Atlas from PerkinElmer Optoelectronics where he was the Vice President, General Manager of Specialty and Commercial Lighting.

Wacker Chemic AG.(NAMES IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2008... Wacker Chemic AG has announced that Karl Heinz Weiss will step down as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at the company's upcoming Annual General Meeting in May. At the same time, Peter-Alexander Wacker will step down from his function as...

Third quarter--2007: shipment volumes decline.(MARKETPLACE)
March 1, 2008... The paint industry continued to decline for the second straight year. The decline however was primarily in shipment volume, as shipment value continued to rise. For the third quarter, the Total Industry declined in shipment volume by 2.6%, but...

Wall Street struggles to the end of 2007.(stock WATCH)
March 1, 2008... The stock market scratched to the end of 2007 as investors worried about crumbling housing and lending sectors on one side and high oil prices on the other. Even though existing home sales rose in November. That did little to buoy Wall Street...

Reaching strict VOC requirements with outstanding durability for industrial maintenance and marine coatings.
March 1, 2008... The world is shrinking! In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first sell-propelled aircraft. That same year, H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall Crocker were the first to drive across the United States via automobile, which took them 57 days!...

A unique fungicide for wood-filled plastic.
March 1, 2008... The agrichemical, folpet, is shown to be an effective fungicide for use in a broad range of plastics including wood-filled plastics. Performance is evaluated through a tiered product development program utilizing: 1) Petri dish and...

Slacking off!(deSigns of the Times)
March 1, 2008... In previous articles (1,2) factorial designs were described as being especially well suited to studying continuous variables, like pressure, temperature, time and speed, and categorical variables, like chemical functionality type, lot number...

From rocks to nanos.
March 1, 2008... Over many years the continuous development of wet grinding mills has resulted in finer and finer particle size reduction with lower process times. It is well established that small-diameter grinding media (beads) produce finer product particle...

Shear-free dispersion process for automated production.
March 1, 2008... For as long as man has attempted to mix solids with liquids, he has struggled to avoid an annoying, if not wholly unacceptable, by product--lumps or, more scientifically, agglomerates. In the case of a single serving of a food product, as in...

Fluorinated oxetane oligomers as versatile intermediates for polymer modification.
March 1, 2008... Fluorinated materials in many forms are used in coatings formulations. For example, fluorosurfactants are used as wetting, flow and leveling aids due to their low surface tension among other attributes. Fluoropolymers are legendary for their...

The effects of TPO composition on adhesion and proposed chemical mechanism.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Adhesion of chlorinated polyolefin (CPO) and topcoat on various types of thermoplastic polyolefins (TPO) at three different baking temperatures, 180 [degrees]F (82[degrees]C), 200 [degrees]F (93[degrees]C), and...

Styrene acrylic emulsion.(MATERIALS WATCH)
March 1, 2008... Nuplex Resins: Viscopol 37-1371 is a styrene acrylic emulsion that provides coatings with excellent dry time, and early water and block resistance. It has good adhesion to a variety of substrates that include galvanized steel, aluminum and...

Alkyd latex resin.(MATERIALS WATCH)
March 1, 2008... Reichhold: The Beckosol AQ line of products provides alkyd-like performance in a waterborne vehicle at zero VOCs. Beckosol AQ 100 is a soya-based, long-oil alkyd resin provided at 55-percent solids. Beckosol AQ 200 is soya-based, mediumoil...

Black pigment.(MATERIALS WATCH)
March 1, 2008... The Shepherd Color Co.: Dynamix[TM] Black 30C940 is a stir-in inorganic color pigment. It can be used widely in color matches to maximize Total Solar Reflectance (TSR), minimize heat build up and reduce overall energy costs. It requires only...

Copolymer.(MATERIALS WATCH)
March 1, 2008... Alberdingk Boley, Inc.: UC84 is a new polyurethane acrylic waterborne dispersion that is produced with ABI's solvent-free dispersion process. The product has excellent chemical resistance, hardness and clarity, making it ideal for interior wood...

Ribbon Blender.(PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... CHARLES ROSS & SON CO.: The new B-Blenders will blend materials up to 32 lbs. cu. ft. They are available in working-capacity sizes of 10, 18 and 36 cu. ft. Manually operated knife gate valves located in the bottom center of the trough are...

Membrane.(PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... KOCH MEMBRANE SYSTEMS, INC.: The FLUID SYSTEMS[R] ROGA[R] line of cellulose acetate membranes offers smooth surface morphology, neutral charge and chlorine tolerance. The cellulose acetate ultrafiltration element uses a low-pressure membrane...

Cabinet oven.(PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... THE GRIEVE CORP.: No. 915 is a gas-fired, 650[degrees]F cabinet oven currently used for testing paint coupons. Workspace dimensions measure 26" wide by 26" deep by 38" high. This cabinet oven features an aluminized steel exterior, 6"-thick...

Filter.(PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... ATLAS MATERIAL TESTING SOLUTIONS: The Right Light[TM] filter, when combined with the Xenon-arc light technology, a quartz outer filter or a newly developed CIRA (coated infrared absorbing) outer filter, provides the closest full-spectrum match...

Styrene dissolver.(PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... PICO CHEMICAL CORP.: A resin dissolver for styrene polymer build-up from reactor interiors, PS 1025 Reactor Cleaning Accelerator cleans recent as well as aged resin accumulations. This reusable, water-based material performs many times without...

Bed dryer system.(PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... KASON CORP.: This self-contained Circular Vibratory Screener-Fluid Bed Dryer System removes oversize and undersize material and dries on-size material. The pre-packaged system scalps and de-dusts 2500 to 3000 lbs (1134 to 1361 kg) of bulk...