Industrial Paint & Powder articles from January 2001

Industrial Paint & Powder archives from January 2001

Coatings R&D Notebook.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Characteristics of Reactive Diluents What are the desirable characteristics of a reactive diluent? Reactive diluents need to reduce the viscosity of the coating system, so they should have relatively low viscosity themselves. In...

Thickness Gauge Has Specialty Probes.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The PosiTector 6000 Series coating-thickness gauge is available with interchangeable probes for measuring specific applications. Probes for measuring coatings to 250 mils and right-angle probes for measuring inside diameters and other...

Thickness Gauge Is Fully Automatic.(from QuaNix)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... QuaNix keyless coating-thickness gauge features a mobile, miniaturized radio control probe for measuring all metals. It operates without keys, buttons, menus, cables or connectors. The probe's compact size is suitable for measuring...

Benchtop Spectrophotometer Detects Gloss Differences.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The CM-3600D dual-beam benchtop spectrophotometer accurately measures samples with gloss differences. It makes instantaneous adjustments for samples containing UV-absorbing light components. The unit interfaces with SpectraMatch color-matching...

Spectrophotometer Has Long-Life Xenon Lamp.
January 1, 2001... ColorQuest XE color-measurement spectrophotometer is precise and reliable. It features diffuse and 8-degree geometry for reflectance measurement of coatings. It uses double-beam optics and a long-life xenon lamp that virtually eliminates lamp...

Hand-held Unit Measures Color, Gloss.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ColorEye XTH hand-held spectrophotometer provides color and 60-degree correlated gloss data from a single measurement. The instrument uses 3-D targeting technology to provide precise color measurement over a range of sizes, shapes and contours....

Gauge Tests Thickness Two Ways.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Dualscope MP20 coating-thickness gauge measures ferrous and nonferrous substrates using both the magnetic-induction and the eddy-current test methods. The handheld unit is compatible with a wide variety of interchangeable probes. It...

Color Meter Is Easy to Operate.
January 1, 2001... The PSM hand-held spectrophotometer is suitable for paint formulation and batch correction. Designed for right- or left-hand use, this compact, portable unit features a simple four-key control pad that gathers data and provides quick pass/fail...

Thickness Gauge Offers Precise Measurement.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The ETG gauge measures paint thickness to 0.01 mil with accuracy within 1%. It comes with memory, remote probe, calibration foils for special applications and plate. The unit features one-touch on and automatic shut-off. Memory readings can be...

Gauge Measures Coating Thickness Quickly.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The palm-sized 456 coating thickness gauge can deliver more than 60 readings per minute. It uses both the magnetic-induction and the eddy-current test methods to measure coatings on either ferrous or nonferrous metal substrates. Multiple...

UV-Curing System Reduces Heat.
January 1, 2001... The UV-MAC microwave-powered UV-curing system reduces heat-generating infrared energy. It features a low-thermal-expansion glass reflector with dichroic coating that prevents the light waves from reflecting back to the substrate. The...

Cleaning System Is Environmentally Friendly.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The P1 66000 closed-loop high-pressure parts-cleaning system captures oil, dirt and other toxins for convenient disposal. It cleans with hot water to 160[degrees]F and high pressure to 2,500 psi. The filtration system conserves water by...

Primers Dry Quickly.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Kem-Flash 500 alkyd primers offer fast-drying, VOC-compliant and corrosion resistant properties for off-road equipment and general metals applications. Free of lead, chromate and barium, these highsolids primers may be applied by airless or...

Discharger Solves Clearance Problems.
January 1, 2001... The Type 5 bulk bag discharger uses a removable frame design that reduces the necessary height for forklift tines, allowing the operator to load the bag and frame at the lower half of the discharger. It can be used anywhere the discharger can...

Thermocouples Withstand Tough Operations.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... CureTrak temperature-profiling thermocouples stay attached to the work piece in the toughest powder coating line operations. With strong magnets and clamps, they can withstand serpentine conveyors and other complex movements within process...

Filters Prevent Rust Contamination.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... These panel intake filters help eliminate rust contamination in the spray booth. The filters' internal wire grid is constructed of galvanized steel to prevent rust buildup. The design incorporates two middle support rods which stop pulsating...

Surface Modifiers for Wood Coatings.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Lanco and Aqualsip line of surface modifiers provides a wide range of properties for wood coatings, including surface protection, matting control, silica stabilization, waterproofing and sandability. They are available as micronized...

Viscosity Controller Is User-Friendly.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The MP2000 viscosity controller sports an operator panel with a removable cover. Buttons not needed by press or machine operators are hidden but easily accessed by engineering personnel to perform advanced programming and control functions,...

Associations Present Industry Awards.
January 1, 2001... Allan Gates was presented with the George Baugh Heckel Award by the National Paint & Coatings Association (Washington) at its annual meeting. Gates, the association's longest tenured employee, received the 2000 Heckel Award for his outstanding...

FSCT Elects New Officers.(Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (Blue Bell, PA) installed J. Dick Mullen president of the association at the close of its annual meeting at ICE 2000. Mullen is vice president of marketing for Rampart Coatings (Aurora, GO)....

Industry Leader Receives First Richard S. Hunter Award.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Consultant Harry Hammond has been honored with the newly created Richard S. Hunter Achievement Award by the Inter-Society Color Council's ASTM Committee E-12 on Color and Appearance. Committee E-12 was formed in 1948 to promote knowledge of...

SME Grant Program Aims to Deliver Competent Grads.
January 1, 2001... The Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation has again set aside $1 million to help increase the likelihood that colleges and universities produce engineers who are ready for the real world. Now in its fourth year of funding, the...

Browner: Climate Change Most Pressing Problem Facing EPA.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Climate change is the number one environmental priority facing the nation over the next 10 years, said EPA Administrator Carol Browner at a recent meeting of the D.C. Bar Association. If the problem significantly worsens, the United States will...

Superfund Small-Business Bill Fails in House.
January 1, 2001... Despite the support of 46 Democrats, House Republicans failed to win enough votes to pass a Superfund small-business bill that would have exempted a host of small businesses from Superfund liability. The measure drew significant opposition...

Morton Agrees to Stiff Fines for Environmental Violations.(Morton International Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Morton International has resolved charges that it violated air, water and hazardous-waste laws at its Moss Point, MS, facility by agreeing to a $20 million civil penalty that will be divided equally between the United States and the Mississippi...

Compliance-Assistance Web Site Developed.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The EPA, states and other key stakeholders have jointly developed a National Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse that provides regulated industries with essential information to meet environmental requirements. EPA had been asked by states and...

Paint Company Reaches Precedent-Setting Agreement With EPA.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Paint manufacturer William Zinsser & Co. (Somerset, NJ) has settled with the EPA on charges that it sold "mildew-proof" paint that was not registered with EPA as a pesticide. It's the first settlement in the United States of charges against a...

Two Firms Plead Guilty of Illegal Paint Disposal, Fraud.
January 1, 2001... North American Inc., a defunct company formerly located in St. Albans, WV, and Matthew Taylor and IPI Inc., both of Loudendale, WV, each pleaded guilty in October to various federal crimes associated with a scheme to defraud the government. The...

Michigan Program Offers Free Pollution Prevention Assistance.(Retired Engineer Technical Assistance Program)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Michigan Retired Engineer Technical Assistance Program (RETAP) provides confidential, nonregulatory, pollution prevention (P2) assistance to Michigan businesses and institutions at no charge. RETAP assessors are retired engineers,...

2001 Finishing Forecast: SLOW-BUT-STEADY GROWTH AHEAD.
January 1, 2001... Watch for growth in the finishing industry during the coming year--but don't expect too much. Though the finishing market is forecast to grow in 2001, the upward momentum appears to be slowing. On the other hand, higher...

Turnkey Design Brings Quality to the Finishing Line.(Tennsco Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A new dual-line powder system completes a series of liquid to powder conversions for a storage system manufacturer. More often than not, manufacturers can give more than one reason for changing their coating systems. For Tennsco Corp....

New Developments in Additives: AN UPDATE FOR 2001.
January 1, 2001... Learn what's new in additives that improve coatings performance and appearance. Formulators are continuously challenged to meet the requirements of effectively and economically protecting various coatable substrates. This push has required...

Custom Conveyor Makes Light Work of Heavy Job.(Kurdziel Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A custom-designed conveyor helps a heavy-equipment counterweight manufacturer add value to its product and increase its business. Providing a near-automotive-quality finish on the cast-iron counterweights it manufactures would give Kurdziel...

High-Tech Wastewater Facility Reduces Pollution.
January 1, 2001... DaimlerChrysler's manufacturing facility in Toluca, Mexico, recovers up to 95% of its processing water, more than 200,000 gallons of water daily. DaimlerChrysler seemed to go back to the future when it designed and built the inimitable new...

Roobol on Painting.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Back Ionization With Paint? We do all our own wet painting in-plant, but for some orders we send parts out to be powder coated. A recent batch came back from the powder coater with unacceptable craters and roughness that they said were due...

Powder Coating with Collins.
January 1, 2001... Too Hot to Handle After our powder coated parts are cured, they are too hot to unload from the conveyor. Could we use a water mist as they exit the oven to assist in cooling? Yes, this is sometimes done when parts need to be unloaded...

A New Year, A New Look.
January 1, 2001... I guess I'm like most other people: When I'm ready for a change in my life, change is good, and when I'm not ready, change is bad. It's natural to resist change, unless the change is our own idea. But realistically, changing with the times...

Protech Acquires Permalux Powder Coating.
January 1, 2001... Canadian powder coatings manufacturer Protech Chemicals Ltd. (Saint Laurent, Quebec, Canada) has acquired Permalux Powder Coating Inc. of Montreal. This acquisition by Protech is the latest in a series of strategic moves underlining the...

Rockwood Specialties Is Launched.(formerly part of Laporte PLC)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A specialty chemical company comprised of operations acquired from Laporte plc has been launched as Rockwood Specialties Inc. The new company will be headquartered in Princeton, NJ. The acquired operations include pigments, additives, plastics...

Bayer Corp.
January 1, 2001... Bayer Corp. (Pittsburgh) has acquired Ruco Polymers (Hicksville, NY) and its parent company Sybron Chemicals Co. Ruco produces polyester powder resins, polyester polyols, polyurethane latexes and specialty polymers. These products complement...

Binks.(merges with ITW Finishing Systems)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Binks line of automated equipment, including reciprocators, chain-on-edge spindle machines and replacement parts has been merged with ITW BGK Finishing Systems (Minneapolis). It will be known as Binks Automatic Equipment.

Greif Bros. Corp.(acquires Van Leer industrial packaging)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Packaging company Greif Bros. Corp. (Delaware, OH) has agreed to purchase the Van Leer industrial packaging division of Huhtamaki Van Leer Oyj of Espoo, Finland, for $620 million. Van Leer is a worldwide provider of industrial packaging and...

Crompton Corp.'s Petroleum Additives Group.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Crompton Corp.'s Petroleum Additives Group has centralized its global marketing, U.S. technology operations and customer service groups in Middlebury, CT. Following the merger of Crompton & Knowles Corp. and Witco Corp., the business was based...

George Koch Sons.
January 1, 2001... George Koch Sons (Evansville, IN) has opened a subsidiary office in Stuttgart, Germany. George Koch Sons GmbH will serve the European finishing systems market with its design and engineering capabilities.

BASF Corp.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BASF Corp. (Mount Olive, NJ) has completed a $60 million expansion of its Monaco, PA, site. The project consisted of a capacity expansion for existing dispersion operations, including the elimination of bottlenecks for acrylic copolymers and SB...

PPG Industries.
January 1, 2001... PPG Industries (Pittsburgh) has earned ISO 9002 certification for its Greensboro, NC, powder coatings facility.

Kelly-Moore Paint Co.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Kelly-Moore Paint Co. (San Carlos, CA) has earned ISO 9001 certification for its Seattle manufacturing facility.

Filtration Group Acquires Filter Business.(Donaldson Company Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Filtration Group Inc. (Joliet, IL) will acquire the equipment and related assets of Donaldson Co. (Minneapolis) to produce filters for bio safety cabinets and clean-air systems. Filtration Group will relocate the equipment from Donaldson's...

Demand for Coatings Raw Materials to Near $9 Billion in 2004.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... A shift toward higher-performance raw materials is expected to drive the demand for paint and coating materials toward 5.6% percent annual increases, reaching $8.9 billion in 2004. All major segments of the paint and coating materials market,...

Chemical Company Breaks Ground for New Labs.(Degussa-Huls Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Degussa-Huls Corp. (Piscataway, NJ) has broken ground for the construction of a 21,000-square-foot building that will house new labs at the company's New Jersey site. "We wanted to bring R&D and technical service for our coatings-related...

PPG Auto Coatings Are PACE Award Finalists.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Three coatings developed by PPG Industries (Pittsburgh) are among the 36 product finalists for the 2001 PACE awards, a program sponsored by Automotive News and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young to recognize auto industry supplier innovation. Finalists...

SME Offers Online Training Courses.(Society of Manufacturing Engineers)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Dearborn, MI) is currently offering two online training courses, Lean Manufacturing Fundamentals and Planning Manufacturing Cells--Fundamentals, for the manufacturing and engineering community. The...

ASTM Test Sets Standards for Evaluating Graffiti-Resistant Coatings.(the American Society for Testing and Materials)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The American Society for Testing and Materials has published a standardized protocol for evaluating graffiti-resistant coatings and reporting the results for manufacturers and users. "For over 20 years, specialized coatings have been applied on...

New Material Added to Powder Coating Manual.(The Chemical Coaters Association International)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Chemical Coaters Association International (Cincinnati, OH) has published the fourth edition of its Powder Coating training manual. In addition to its basic description of the powder coating process, the manual features over 30 pages of new...

Vinyl Ethers Enhance UV-Cure Coatings.(ultraviolet)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... VEctomer vinyl ethers improve the performance of radiation-cure coatings. These reactive monomers and oligomers provide viscosity reduction, good wetting/leveling during coatings application and enhanced substrate adhesion to acrylate or...

Mixer Incorporates New Technology.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Discmixer uses Discpac technology to create nonimpinging, nonpulsating fluid movement without blades, paddles or vanes. The Discpac is a series of parallel disks that rotate perpendicularly to the mixing shaft. A boundary layer-viscous drag...

Sponge Particles Remove Paint.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... SpongeBlast products use encapsulation technology that embeds abrasives or cleaning agents inside soft sponge particles, then releases them upon impact with a surface. Benefits include dust reduction during paint removal and acceleration of...

Liquid Surfactant Saves Processing Time.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Tergitol XDLW alkyl-based polyethylene oxide-polypropylene oxide block polymer is liquid at room temperature, making handling and processing easy. It produces stable emulsions at low concentrations, allowing manufacturers to use less. The...

Small-Batch Mill.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The MP mill operates as a pumpless milling and dispersion system. It is easy to clean and can be used as a stand-alone. The mill chamber is designed to reduce large particle sizes to the required specifications quickly. A multiple-pass feature...

Rinse-Aid Reduces Drying Time.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Colfin Rinse-Aid RI provides maximum sheeting of water to cut drying time on part surfaces. It inhibits flash rust on unplated surfaces by adding a thin, temporary, dry-to-the-touch coating during the final rinse cycle. This mild, low- to...

Virtual Classrooms Simplify Training.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A new Web site has been launched to help paint and coatings professionals leave their workplaces the same way in which they arrived--safe and healthy. The site, www.npca.advanceonline.com, a partnership between the National Paint & Coatings...