Paint & Coatings Industry articles from November 2004

Paint & Coatings Industry archives from November 2004

Think small and follow the money.(Viewpoint)
November 1, 2004... We touched on nanotechnology several times in past columns, but I think it is time to revisit the topic. The term "nanotechnology" was actually coined in 1974 by Norio Taniguchi to convey the distinction between engineering at the nanoscale...

NPCA calls on companies to join debate on 'green building' initiatives.(Industry news)
November 1, 2004... WASHINGTON -- Citing the launch of a growing number of "green building" initiatives that could place a range of new environmental demands on coatings products, the NPCA is inviting manufacturers to participate in an industry panel that would...

Kelly-Moore argues asbestos case in Texas.(Industry news)
November 1, 2004... ANGLETON, TX -- Testimony was under way in a $1.4-billion asbestos trial in Angleton, TX, in which Kelly-Moore Paint Co. is seeking a verdict against Union Carbide Corp., now a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co. Kelly Moore is the target...

'Coatings 100' report examines changing face of industry worldwide.(Industry news)
November 1, 2004... LONDON -- An increasingly complex global industry structure has resulted in the concentration of coatings manufacturing in the hands of various industrial companies and private-investment firms as well as the giant chemical and...

Plans announced for two pigment conferences in 2005.(Industry news)
November 1, 2004... PORTLAND, ME -- Intertech announced plans for two pigment-industry conferences, "Ti[O.sub.2] 2005" and "High-Performance and Functional Pigments 2005," scheduled for early next year. Intertech, based in Portland, ME, said the...

Stanislaw B. Skora; was developer of materials for powder coatings.(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... NEW YORK -- Stanislaw (Stanley) B. Skora, a developer of additives for powder coatings and founder of Estron Chemical Inc., died May 27 in New York after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. Dr. Skora, who was born in Poland, emigrated...

Book review--Building an Industrial Wood Finish.
November 1, 2004... Title: Building an Industrial Wood Finish Author: Robert M. Cox, Jr. Publisher: Forest Products Society, Madison, WI, 2003, 52 pages This book is intended for wood coatings manufacturers, although I would also recommend it for wood...

2005 calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... Meetings, Shows and Educational Programs JANUARY 14-16 India International Coatings Show 2005 Services International/Indian Paint Association Mumbai, India +91-11-25770212/25778875 www.coatingsindia.com ...

Akzo Nobel says new China office marks next step in expansion program.(Company news)
November 1, 2004... ARNHEM, The Netherlands -- Akzo Nobel announced the establishment of a regional headquarters office in Shanghai in a move the company said marks a major milestone in its ongoing program of expansion in China. CEO Hears Wijers said Akzo...

BASF Coatings opens key distribution facility.(Company news)
November 1, 2004... MUNSTER, Germany -- BASF Coatings AG announced the formal opening of the company's new Distribution Center in MOnster, a facility described by BASF Coatings CEO Berthold Tillmann as "an extremely important and effective node in our European...

Akzo Nobel joins UN 'Global Compact' in commitment to corporate responsibility.(Company news)
November 1, 2004... ARNHEM, The Netherlands -- Akzo Nobel said it has joined the United Nations' Global Compact, an initiative designed to promote responsible global development and good corporate citizenship worldwide. The company said the action further...

BASF AG.(Company News In Brief)
November 1, 2004... BASF AG, Frankfurt, Germany, announced a move of its North American headquarters front Mount Olive, NJ, to Florham Park, NJ. The address for the company's new headquarters is 100 Campus Drive, Florham Park, NJ 07932.

Brookfield Engineering Laboratories.(Company News In Brief)
November 1, 2004... Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, Middleboro, MA, announced the opening of a sales and support office in the Chicago area. The sales office will primarily handle accounts in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and neighboring states, the company...

Degussa AG.(Company News In Brief)
November 1, 2004... Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, Germany, announced plans to build a new manufacturing site encompassing several key industrial segments on the southern edge of Shanghai, China, including a Coatings and Colorants polyester-resin facility scheduled to...

Degussa.(Company News In Brief)
November 1, 2004... Degussa said its Advanced Fillers & Pigments Business Unit will boost capacity at the business's Chester, PA, precipitated performance silica production site by "several million pounds" by means of debottlenecking and other actions involving...

Kerr-McGee Chemical L.L.C.(Company News In Brief)
November 1, 2004... Kerr-McGee Chemical L.L.C., Oklahoma City, in a upgrade to the company's titanium dioxide (Ti[O.sub.2]) production site in Uerdingen, Germany, started operation of a new ore mill to process titanium-bearing ore. The mill is expected to...

Rust-Oleum Corp.(Company News In Brief)
November 1, 2004... Rust-Oleum Corp., Vernon Hills, IL, said a federal District Court in San Francisco ruled in favor of Martin Mathys S.A. and Rust-Oleum, Martin Mathys' exclusive U.S. distributor, in a trademark infringement and unfair-competition lawsuit...

Wacker Polymer Systems, Adrian, MI, has appointed Fitz Chem Corp., Itasca, IL, to an expanded distribution territory that includes Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and all of Illionis.(Company News In Brief)
November 1, 2004... Wacker Polymer Systems, Adrian, MI, has appointed Fitz Chem Corp., Itasca, IL, to an expanded distribution territory that includes Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and all of Illinois. Fitz Chem's existing distribution territory for Wacker includes...

Cytec to acquire UCB's Surface Specialties business.(Mergers and acquisitions)
November 1, 2004... WEST PATERSON, NJ -- Cytec Industries Inc. announced a definitive agreement to purchase the Surface Specialties business of UCB Group in a cash and stock deal valued at 1.5 billion euros, or approximately $1.8 billion. Cytec said the...

California entrepreneur acquires Smiland Co.'s Morwear brand.(Mergers and acquisitions)
November 1, 2004... LOS ANGELES -- Eric Von Knipe, a California businessman and entrepreneur, has acquired the Morwear paint brand from Smiland Paint Co. and has formed Morwear Manufacturing Inc. Von Knipe assumed the positions of president and CEO of Morwear...

Henkel to acquire Sovereign Specialty Chemicals.(Mergers and acquisitions)
November 1, 2004... DUSSELDORF, Germany -- Henkel Corp., the U.S.-based affiliate of the Henkel Group of Germany, announced an agreement to acquire Sovereign Specialty Chemicals Inc., an adhesives, sealants and coatings manufacturer based in Chicago, in a...

Canada's Protech to acquire powder producer Oxyplast.(Mergers and acquisitions)
November 1, 2004... MONTREAL -- The Protech Chemicals Group, based in Montreal, has acquired the Belgium-based powder-coatings manufacturer Oxyplast N.V. Financial terms were not announced. Oxyplast, launched in the 1960s, is considered a pioneer in the...

Cray Valley to acquire Akzo Nobel's UV/EB resins.(Mergers and acquisitions)
November 1, 2004... ARNHEM, The Netherlands -- Akzo Nobel announced an agreement to sell its Ultra Violet/Electron Beam (UV/EB) Resins business to Cray Valley S.A., part of the Total Group of France. Terms were not disclosed. The UV/EB Resins business is a...

Degussa acquires Wacker additives line.(Mergers and acquisitions)
November 1, 2004... MUNICH, Germany -- Wacker Chemie GmbH announced an agreement to sell its ADDID surface coating additives business to Degussa AG's Oligomers & Silicones business unit. Terms were not disclosed. Degussa's Tego Coating & Ink Additives business...

Kerr-McGee Corp.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Kerr-McGee Corp. named Tom Adams vice president of Chemicals, with responsibility for all aspects of the company's chemical operations. Adams joined Kerr-McGee more than 20 years ago and was most recently vice president and general manager of...

Holliday Pigments.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Steve Bell has joined Holliday Pigments, a supplier of ultramarine blue pigments, as Sales and Marketing director. Bell was formerly Commercial director at Magna Colours, a specialty colorants supplier to the textile and coatings markets. He...

Cook Composites and Polymers.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Gary Fischer has joined Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) as director of Sales and Marketing for Coatings Resins. Fischer has more than 25 years of experience in sales and marketing in the chemical industry, and most recently was a national...

Eagle Sales Co.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Jeffery Hasser has joined Eagle Sales Co., St. Louis, as director of R&D, with responsibility for new-product development and product quality assurance. Ron Burge joined the company as Quality manager, with responsibility for managing and...

BYK-Gardner USA.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Jay Kunick has joined BYK-Gardner USA as Regional Sales manager for Michigan and northern Indiana. Kunick is a recent graduate of Eastern Michigan University.

Brookfield Engineering Laboratories.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, Middleboro, MA, has named David Larson Regional Sales manager. Larsen is president of Johnson Instrument Sales Inc., a longtime Brookfield sales-representative firm.

Grace Performance Chemicals.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Grace Performance Chemicals named Michael S. Richardson Worldwide Quality Assurance manager for the company's Darex business unit, a manufacturer of can and closure sealants and coatings for the packaged-food and beverage markets. Richardson...

Resolution Performance Products L.L.C.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Resolution Performance Products L.L.C. has named Layle K. Smith president and chief operating officer. Smith was formerly CEO of NxtPhase Corp., a manufacturer of high-voltage digital optical sensors, relays and recorders. He previously held a...

Degussa.(Names in the news)
November 1, 2004... Degussa named Stefan Uhrlandt director of Technical Marketing for the company's Advanced Fillers & Pigments business unit. He will lead the unit's applied technology operations for specialty silica, matting agents and pigment blacks in the...

90 years with PCI: a retrospective: in the 1950s: powder coatings: not some half-baked idea: from fluidized bed to UV cure, powder technology has rocketed to lofty position in finishing pantheon.
November 1, 2004... In a personal account of the theory behind the powder coating process. Erwin Gemmer--the acknowledged father of the powder-coating process--said he was struck with the inspiration for the concept while riding a train along the Rhine River in...

Second quarter--2004: architectural coatings continue to shine.(Market place)
November 1, 2004... The coatings industry for the second quarter remained about even with last year, showing a 0.1% decline in quantity of shipments and a 1.0% decline in the value of shipments. For the first six months of 2004, the industry declined 0.7% in both...

Phosphate esters in low-VOC waterborne architectural paint systems.
November 1, 2004... There are a number of basic ingredients necessary in formulating waterborne architectural paints--the latex resin (binder), pigments, coalescent solvents, thickeners and the additives. Among these additives are surfactants that offer dispersion...

Synthetic resins for wood applications.
November 1, 2004... Coatings for wood are a well-established coatings segment that offers a huge variety of substrates, applications and coatings technologies. Developments in this field are mainly driven by increasing application and cost efficiency;...

Getting the most out of chlorinated polyolefin (CPO) adhesion promoters.(Nuts And Bolts of Coatings Formulation)
November 1, 2004... Editors Note: This is the third of a series of articles regarding the 'Nuts and Bolts' of formulating. It is intended to help formulators new to the industry, those who have changed jobs within the industry or simply as a refresher. ...

Advanced oven technology--the Air Barrier Heat Seal.
November 1, 2004... This article examines the Air Barrier Heat Seal, an advanced paint-finishing oven technology that addresses many of the complex oven requirements to achieve optimal oven performance. Some important goals to consider when selecting an oven...

Formulating and processing pigmented UV coatings--latest investigation.
November 1, 2004... Radiation curing technology is well established. This technology is unique due to the combination of features such as clearcoats, which cure within a fraction of a second, coatings formulated without any organic solvent and the outstanding...

The art of mixing: high-speed dispersers.
November 1, 2004... Many people entering the process industries have no experience or training in the "art" of mixing. Most of what they need to know is not taught in trade schools or in traditional college classes. This knowledge is typically acquired over many...

Location affects performance of biocide-containing paints.
November 1, 2004... Field testing is used to assess the expected commercial performance of a coating. Such testing exposes the coating to an environment that is much closer to that which the coating will experience in actual use. In this respect, field testing is...

China's architectural coatings market: an interview with Roger Moo, Senior Marketing Manager for Coatings, Dow Latex, Pacific Area.
November 1, 2004... What is your overall view of the waterborne architectural coatings market in China? The architectural coatings market in China will continue to be robust for the next five to six years. It will lead Asia in volume, value, advancement in...

Internet directory.
November 1, 2004... Arizona Instrument www.azic.com Rapid moisture, solids and ash analyzers Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC www.atlas-mts.com Material-testing instruments pertaining to durability to weathering BASF www.basf.com/usa Automotive and...

Multi-channel viscometer.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Cambridge Applied Systems The Visco Pro 1600 multi-channel viscometer offers a touch-screen display platform and has a user-friendly operator interface for up to 10 channels. Some of the new features include: read-outs in centipoises, cup...

Powder thickness gauge.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Elcometer, Inc. The Elcometer 550 powder thickness gauge uses a novel, non-contact measurement technique based on a high-frequency ultrasonic transducer to predict the final cured thickness of uncured coating powders on a range of...

Mills.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Draiswerke, Inc. The DRAIS DCP MegaFlow is a rotor and stator pegged mill, which utilizes high-energy density milling combined with high cooling surface for maximum particle size reduction efficiency. The internal media recirculation...

Moisture analyzer.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Omnimark Instrument Corp. The Mark 3 moisture analyzer provides accurate moisture results. Primary components include: an integral monolithic electronic balance with thermal isolation; an infrared quartz cylinder heating system with...

High-shear mixer.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Charles Ross and Son Co. The new Model 100LCI high-shear mixer is designed to be the most versatile bench-top laboratory mixer available. A power lift makes raising and lowering the mix head as easy as pushing a button. Standard features...

Coating thickness gage.(Products)
November 1, 2004... DeFelsko Corp. The PosiTest DFT coating thickness gage is available in two models, Ferrous for steel or Combo for all metals. To eliminate guesswork, the unit uses patented technology to automatically recognize the substrate and take a...

Bead mill.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Buhler Inc. The R60 bead mill is for ultrafine dispersion applications. Features include high production rates; large surfaces, guaranteeing highly effective heat transfer; fully cooled grinding chamber; and separately cooled rotor with...

Diaphragm pumps.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Warren Rupp, Inc. Company offers information on its line of non-stalling, air-operated diaphragm pumps in a new brochure. SANDPIPER Pumps are available in sizes from 1/4" through 3" in both metallic and non-metallic materials of...

Cartridge.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Filter Specialists, Inc. The Vorex HP cartridge provides superior flow, increased dirt holding and a lower pressure drop. The cartridge has 100% polypropylene microfibers and core. This is an optimal gradient density cartridge with a much...

Pump: Blackmer.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Moyno, Inc. The Moyno[R] 500 Pump, 301 Series Progressing Cavity Pumps are an economical solution in applications involving corrosive chemicals. This positive-displacement, general utility pump can handle a variety of applications from...

Powder coating screener.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Russell Finex Inc. The Russell Compact screener accurately removes oversized contamination to ensure that powder coatings are free from impurities. The screener can be dismantled and cleaned in seconds without the need for tools, enabling...

Pump.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Blackmer The LD17 Pump's solid shaft conquers vibration and greatly extends seal, bearing and shaft life. Its oversized angular contact thrust bearings are standard for high thrust capability and eliminate any axial movement of the shaft....

Lab Mill.(Products)
November 1, 2004... KADY[R] International The KADY[R] Lab Mill is an efficient rotor-stator dispersion mill, offering continuous or batch operation, newly designed integrated control panel with variable-speed drive, interchangeable dispersion heads, and...

Rheology cell.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Anton Paar USA The Physica magneto-rheology cell is designed to test magneto-rheological (MR) fluids under a variety of different conditions. Utilizing plate-plate geometry, the magnetic field is generated by applying an electrical current...

Counterflow impeller.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Philadelphia Mixing Solutions This efficient impeller is designed for specialty mixing applications and for shear-thinning, high-viscosity applications. Its dual-action, large-diameter design effectively mixes specialty fluids with...

Sonolator System.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Sonic Corp. The Sonolator[TM] is unique in that a single system can be used to disperse pigments to sub-micron range; emulsify discontinuous phases, either in single-or multiple-feed method; and de-flocculate or reclaim paint. Dual-feed...

Small media mill.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Union Process The DMQ lab mill is a versatile, 1/2-liter, tank-sized mill that can be used in continuous as well as circulation modes. Ring screens can be easily adjusted to accommodate the use of grinding media from 1mm to as small as...

Laboratory ultra-fine classifier.(Products)
November 1, 2004... NETZSCH Inc. The CFS 5 HD-S High Dispersion Air Classifier offers excellent particle size selectivity and exact internal product flow. The classifying results show a high degree of efficiency due to a very high dispersion effect before the...

Dual-shaft mixer.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Reynolds Industries This powerful and versatile mixer combines a low-speed helical blade agitator with a high-speed disperser. It helps eliminate hot or cold spots in temperature-controlled processes and provides greater control of...

Moisture/solids analyzer.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Arizona Instrument The Computrac[R] MAX[R] 2000XL moisture/solids analyzer offers automatic, menu-driven operation, a detection range from 0.005%-100.0%, a temperature range from 25-275 [degrees]C, and storage of up to 250 test programs....

Reflectance meter.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Paul N. Gardner Co., Inc. The Pocket Detective 3.0 Window Tint Meter offers solutions for both visible-light transmission measurements along with visible-light reflectance measurements. The unit can be used to measure optical properties of...

Viscometer.(Products)
November 1, 2004... Brookfield Engineering The KU-2 Krebs viscometer features switchable Krebs Units, centipoise or grams, and is compatible with ASTM D562. The unit provides continuous sensing and display, has a resolution to within 0.1 KU or 1 gram, and...