Industrial Paint & Powder articles from January 2003

Industrial Paint & Powder archives from January 2003

Complacency? You won't find it here! (Publisher's Letter).(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Back in September we launched the redesign of Industrial Paint & bringing you the most graphically pleasing magazine in the industry. The response from you, the reader, was overwhelming support of our razor-sharp graphics, reader-friendly...

A new challenge. (Editor's View).(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Industrial Paint & Powder magazine has always lead the way in providing useful and current information on technology and coating techniques. With quality research efforts and a dedicated staff they have consistently written and published the...

Survey: benefits of solvents recognized, but more communications needed. (News Watch).
January 1, 2003... A recent survey done for the American Solvents Council shows that customers and regulators recognize the benefits that solvents bring to the development of essential and life-saving products, but they want the industry to make more information...

163.4 million gallons. (By the Numbers).(UK paint market statistics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The estimated UK paint market, in terms of consumption (defined as production, less exports and plus imports) in 2001. Within the industrial sector, transport coatings account for 48% of total industrial coatings demand by value. The...

326. (By the Numbers).(number of coating industry businesses in group)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Number of businesses signed on to the Powder Coated Tough Mark developed by the Powder Coating Institute (as of late October). Mark participants include manufacturers of electronics, office equipment, water coolers, playground equipment, beds,...

Agreement to sell SigmaKalon announced. (News Watch).(TotalFinaElf to sell coating business)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... TotalFinaElf announced an agreement to sell its SigmaKalon coatings business, one of the 10 biggest coatings manufacturers in the world, to the private investment firm Bain Capital. The parent company says the proposed sale would provide...

ICE 2002 welcomes 6,400 to New Orleans. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ICE 2002, held in New Orleans this year, attracted 6,419 registrants to its exposition and technical programs. With its theme of "Global Connectivity," ICE brought together participants from more than 60 countries to learn about the latest...

New benchmarking service for metal finishers. (News Watch).(National Metal Finishing Resource Center)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The National Metal Finishing Resource Center (NMFRC), working with the Metal Finishing Strategic Goals Program over the last three years, has developed and honed a benchmarking technique that can be applied to any metal finishing shop. The...

Elementis installing treatment plant at WV facility. (News Watch).(Elementis Specialties Inc. in West Virginia)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Groundbreaking has taken place for a new water-treatment plant being installed at the Elementis Specialties facility in Charleston, WV. The $3.2 million water purification system will produce near-drinking-quality water for reuse in...

EM Industries. (News in Brief).(changes name to EMD Chemicals Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... EM Industries (Hawthorne, NY) announced a change in the business' name to EMD Chemicals Inc., effective Jan. 1, 2003. The action reflects a "global branding strategy" being implemented by the business' parent company, Merck KgaA, of Germany to...

Industria Chimica Adriatica (ICA), based in Civitanova Marche, Italy, a producer of paints and varnishes for wood. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Industria Chimica Adriatica (ICA), based in Civitanova Marche, Italy, a producer of paints and varnishes for wood, has forged a distribution relationship with Paints & Solvents (Indianapolis) to involve their complete line of wood finishes....

Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, OH) has acquired Dock Resins Corp. (Linden, NJ) from Landec Corp. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, OH) has acquired Dock Resins Corp. (Linden, NJ) from Landec Corp. for approximately $14 million. Dock Resins is a supplier of proprietary polymers including acrylic, methacrylic, alkyd and polyester resins used in the...

Raabe Corp. (News in Brief).(certified to ISO standard)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Raabe Corp. (Menomonee Falls, WI) has become certified to the ISO 9001:2000 standard. The new standard, which focuses on five basic standards--general requirements, management responsibility, resource management, product realization and...

Plasticolors Inc. (News in Brief).(selects Archway Sales for distribution)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Plasticolors Inc. (Ashtabula, OH), a supplier of pigments and chemical dispersions, has selected Archway Sales Inc. (St. Louis), an independent sales and distribution representative, to promote and distribute Plasticolors' products in the...

Sun Chemical Corp. (Fort Lee, NJ) has acquired a 50% interest in Assemblage Intermoleculaire en Chimie Organique. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Sun Chemical Corp. (Fort Lee, NJ) has acquired a 50% interest in Assemblage Intermoleculaire en Chimie Organique, a special-effect pigments, additives and inks company in Libourne, France.

Total Service Solutions. (News in Brief).(PPG Industries expanding outsourcing programs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Total Service Solutions from PPG Industries (Pittsburgh) announced that it is extending its outsourcing programs, services and products beyond automotive to the aerospace, general industrial and packaging sectors. Total Service Solutions...

Environmental Coatings Inc. (News in Brief).(acquired coating technology from Akzo Nobel Coatings)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Environmental Coatings Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI), says it has acquired industrial-coatings product technology and rights to customer bases in New Jersey, Illinois and Wisconsin from Akzo Nobel Coatings. The nearly $4 million acquisition expands...

PPG Industries Inc. (News in Brief).(wins r&d award)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... PPG Industries Inc. (Pittsburgh) says it won a seventh consecutive "R&D 100" award for the company's development of the lead-free FrameCoat electrodeposition primer for auto and light-truck chassis components. The awards, sponsored by R&D...

Rust-Oleum Corp. (Vernon Hills, IL) has acquired Sierra Performance Coatings (San Lorenzo, CA). (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Rust-Oleum Corp. (Vernon Hills, IL) has acquired Sierra Performance Coatings (San Lorenzo, CA), maker of the only high-performance industrial and commercial coatings with zero VOCs, the company said. The coatings are also free of HAPs and...

BASF Corp. (News in Brief).(sold it's industrial coating site to C&C Ventures LLC)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... BASF Corp. (Mount Olive, NJ) has sold its Chicopee, MA, site where the company manufactured general industrial coatings, to C&C Ventures LLC. The transaction includes the property, buildings, production equipment and BASF's customer list of...

DuPont Co. (People).(Charles Holliday Jr elected to Business Council)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DuPont Co's (Wilmington, DE) chairman and CEO, Charles Holliday Jr., has been elected chairman of The Business Council, a Washington, D.C.based organization that offers recommendations on public-policy and economic issues of national concern.

RPM Inc. (People).(Thomas Sullivan receives humanitarian award)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... NPCA chairman and chairman and CEO of RPM Inc. (Medina, OH), Thomas Sullivan, will receive the AntiDefamation League's (ADL) David H. Litter Humanitarian Award, which was established to recognize those who have personified the noblest...

Farbe & Lack. (People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The German coatings-industry journal Farbe & Lack has presented its annual Fabre & Lack prize, recognizing a young author of an outstanding coatings research paper, to Andrreas Plagge for his paper on the development of nontoxic, thin cellulose...

Rohm and Haas Co. (People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Rohm and Haas Co. (Philadelphia) announced several key management appointments, including James Swanson as head of the company's North American Architectural and Functional Coatings business and M. Reginald Home as global business director for...

PPG Industries Inc. (People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Lorene Boettcher has joined PPG Industries Inc. (Pittsburgh) as manager, global design and color marketing, for the company's Advanced Color Styling Team and worldwide color marketing activities for PPG's automotive OEM coatings, succeeding...

GretagMacbeth. (People).(Bob Olmsted appointed regional manager)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... GretagMacbeth (New Windsor, NY) has named Bob Olmsted regional manager, Midwest area, based in Chicago. He previously held various sales and product-management positions with the company, most recently as product marketing manager.

Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings. (People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings (Cleveland) has promoted Jim Stevens to market development director-aerospace and military, Stuart Mack to technical director-aerospace and military, and Dallas Finch to national sales manager-aerospace....

Raabe Corp. (People).(Crystal Halweg appointed to marketing coordinator)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Raabe Corp. (Menomonee Falls, WI) has announced the appointment of Crystal Halweg to marketing coordinator. She is responsible for marketing, public relations and advertising activities for the Spectrafill and Precision Color markets.

Staubli Corp., University establish Robotics Lab. (News and Views from the Coatings Community).(University of South Carolina Spartanburg)
January 1, 2003... The University of South Carolina Spartanburg, its Center for International Studies and Staubli Corp. (Spartanburg) have established a robotics lab on the USCS campus. The collaboration launches the first such effort in the Upstate of South...

2003 Finishing Market Survey: taming the bear.
January 1, 2003... No doubt about it, 2002 was a bear of a year, and a bigger, more frightening bear than most people would have predicted. In fact, it may have been worse than it seemed much of the time, considering the U.S. Census Bureau's downward revision...

Class A finishing for farm equipment: unique design features throughout CNH Global's new two-component finishing system for agricultural products will help the manufacturer trim costs while providing an improved finish.
January 1, 2003... CNH Global was formed in 2000 when New Holland North America merged with Case IH to make it one of the world's largest farm and construction equipment manufacturers. The merger improved the new company's competitive position by consolidating...

EPA's photochemical reactivity policy--overview and update.(Environmental Protection Agency)
January 1, 2003... A lot has been learned about photochemical reactivity since the EPA adopted its current policy for controlling VOCs in 1977, and research continues. Some changes in the EPA's policy regarding VOC control may be on the horizon. ...

AFC Industrial Finishing Systems. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... AFC is a fully integrated "Design-Build-Install" systems group for liquid and powder finishing equipment. AFC has been in business for over thirty years and has supplied finishing equipment for N.A.S.A., the U.S. Air Force, railroads, bus and...

Belco Industries, Inc. - Pretreatment Systems. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... Belco Industries, Inc.--a complete turnkey finishing systems integrator--supplies a diverse line of Pretreatment Systems for the Finishing Industry. Our Pretreatment Systems are available in mild steel, stainless steel and fiberglass...

JBI. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... JBI is the acknowledged and respected leader in the finishing industry, a total and complete resource from product design and innovation to on-site engineering, installation, technical support, and end-user training and education. JBI has...

Nordson Corporation. (Special Advertising Section).(Advertisement)
January 1, 2003... COLORMAX[TM] POWDER SPRAY SYSTEM DELIVERS HIGH SYSTEM EFFICIENCY, WITH COMPLETE AND FAST COLOR CHANGE The Nordson ColorMax[TM] powder spray system * is designed for quick 10-to-25-minute color change with high system efficiency, optimum...

Pneu-Mech Systems Mfg. Inc. (Special Advertising Section).(Advertisement)
January 1, 2003... Pneu-Mech Systems Manufactures complete Powder and Liquid Finishing Systems for Metal - Wood - Fiberglass PRODUCTS Turn-Key System design, manufacturing and installation Spray Booths--Wet and Dry media ...

Steelman Industries, Inc. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... LOW OPERATING COSTS: The Steelman Gas Ovens are equipped with Dungs Integrated Gas Trains that offer low maintenance and high reliability, as well as a modulating gas valve for operating efficiency. A Maxon APX burner package provides an...

Therma-Tron-X, Inc. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... Therma-Tron-X, Inc. (TTX) is a full service supplier of custom electrocoating, powder and liquid coating systems and their components. Our sister company, TTX Environmental, Inc., produces water conditioning equipment and wastewater treatment...

X-Rite. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... Measure, analyze and control color data with flexibility and accuracy X-RiteColor[R] Master software provides accurate, flexible, and fast access to color control data for the paint, plastics, printing, packaging, coatings, ink, and...

DeFelsko Corporation. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... DeFelsko--The Measure of Quality DeFelsko Corporation, a U.S. manufacturer of coating thickness gages and inspection instruments, is pleased to introduce important new features of the PosiTector 6000 used to measure coating thickness on...

EISENMANN. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... EISENMANN offers complete turnkey, single source solutions from design to installation to complete service and follow-up. The company holds a solid reputation for designing and manufacturing the most technically advanced, economically effective...

Elcometer. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... Elcometer 550 Powder Thickness Gauge The new 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 powder...

Epcon Industrial Systems. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... Total Destruction of VOCs Epcon manufactures a variety of combustion based VOC control systems including Afterburners, RTO's, Recuperative Oxidizers and Catalytic Oxidizers for total destruction of VOCs. Our customized products can handle...

Fischer Technology, Inc. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Fischer manufactures a complete line of coating thickness measurement and material testing instrumentation. Magnetic induction, eddy current, X-Ray fluorescence, beta-backscatter, coulometric and electrical resistance measurement methods are...

Fostoria Industries, Inc. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Process Heat Division Fostoria's Process Heat Division is a long recognized leader in the application of electric and gas infrared oven systems in the paint and coatings markets. Fostoria designs and builds quality oven systems, to...

George Koch Sons, Inc. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... * KOCH is a world leader in design, manufacture, installation and after market support of finishing systems. More than 1,200 complete systems are installed in 34 countries. * Products include surface preparation machines, conventional dip,...

Goodway Technologies Corporation. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Since its founding in 1968, Goodway Technologies Corp. has grown to become a leader in the cleaning and maintenance equipment industries. We are proud of our reputation for high quality products, fast delivery, and outstanding after sale...

KMI Systems, Inc. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... KMI Systems Inc. provides complete engineered design solutions and turnkey installations for the paint and powder finishing industry. Proven engineering expertise provides design specification for optimum design efficiency and reliability. Rely...

Magic Rack/Production Plus Corp. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... "Magic Rack", the original patented high density racking system is only one of many rack designs engineered by Production Plus Corp. for the finishing industry. Since 1979, Production Plus Corp. has been solving problems for all finishing...

National Partitions. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... National Partitions provides leading edge manufactured construction of modular buildings for manufacturing plants, paint and powder coating facilities, distribution and warehouse centers, and business offices. Products include in-plant...

Parker Ionics. (Special Advertising Section).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd has been the premier supplier of metal surface treatments in Japan since 1928. Nihon Parkerizing, in concert with its strategic partners, has created an international network of cooperative ventures, affiliates, and...

Smarteye Corporation. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... Positive Identification For Your Conveyor Carriers...EVERYTIME! For over twenty years, Smarteye Corporation has been providing ultra reliable automatic identification solutions to the paint finishing industry. The flagship of their product...

Wisconsin Oven Corporation. (Special Advertising Section).
January 1, 2003... Wisconsin Oven is founded on integrity, service and delivery. Through our innovations and an unwavering commitment to quality in design, engineering, manufacturing and customer service, Wisconsin Oven has become recognized as the leader in the...

Roobol on painting.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... Pinholes in Polymer Ceramic Material We manufacture electrical insulators and other electrical equipment from a polymer ceramic material consisting of 87% silica in various grain sizes for compaction, and a methyl methacrylate monomer. The...

Powder coating.(maintaining quality compressed air for powder coating system)
January 1, 2003... Ensure Compressed Air Quality I have been told that compressed air quality is important for a powder coating system. What kind of air quality should I have? What kind of problems can I expect if the air supply is not maintained properly?...

Coatings R&D notebook.(research and development)(Column)
January 1, 2003... Controlling Block Resistance How can block resistance he controlled? Block resistance is the tendency of a coating not to adhere to another surface. For example, when a part is painted and wrapped with paper, the paper may stick to the...

Single point viscosity test. (Product Innovations).(Brookfield Engineering Laboratories)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Brookfield's new CAP 1000+ Viscometer provides a quick single-point viscosity test with rapid temperature control. The instrument comes with choice of cone spindle and rotational speed to suit the customer's application. The rugged instrument...

One-step manual iron phosphate. (Product Innovations).(Chemetall Oakite)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Gardobond A 4961 was developed to provide high-quality cleaning and paint adhesion and corrosion resistance. Extensive laboratory evaluations have resulted in a unique formulation that both cleans and applies an iron phosphate coating, with the...

Heat Cleaning System. (Product Innovations).(ACE Equipment Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ACE Equipment Co.'s ACE Heat Cleaning System now owns five North American patents. The patented MicroRamp controller allows customers to strip any combustible material from metal racks, hooks and fixtures and rejects parts safely. The system...

Efficient manual powder coating application. (Product Innovations).(Wagner Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Wagner's Bravo Airfluid Manual Powder Unit is designed for efficient manual powder coating application. Recipe recall and powder volume can be a one-touch operation with the gun-mounted remote controls. The large, LCD-equipped control unit has...

Long-lasting filters. (Product Innovations).(Chemco Manufacturing Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Chemco's Pulsator Plus uses a new powder cartridge technology that is designed to reach up to 99.9% efficiency at 2 microns. It is washable, non-linting and moisture resistant. The Advanced Dual Dimple (ADD) technology, a manufacturing...

PC-controlled reciprocator. (Product Innovations).(ARTomation by Advanced Robotics Technologies)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The ARTomation single or multiaxis reciprocator features PC controls with a touch screen for easy adjustment of stroke length, stroke speed, stroke center and process controls. This servo-driven gun mover has optional line tracking and can be...

Quick color change. (Product Innovations).(Nordson Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Nordson's ColorMax powder spray system is designed for 10- to 25-minute color change with high system efficiency and maximum powder usage. The Sure-Max Powder Transfer System provides contamination-free recycling of powder by continuously...

Complete lubrication line. (Product Innovations).(Mighty Lube Systematic Lubrication Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Mighty Lube offers a complete line of lubrication equipment, lubricants and conveyor cleaning brushes. Mighty Lube lubricators feature microprocessor controls that monitor how often lubricant is applied and in what amount. The controls also...

Quick and safe cleaning system. (Product Innovations).(Seghers Better Technology)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... SEGHERSBetter Technology's fluidized sand bed cleaning system removes paint and powder from metal tooling, such as paint hangers, grates, dies, nozzles and extrusion screws. The parts being cleaned are immersed in a hot fluidized sand bed that...

Flexible conveyor system. (Product Innovations).(Ziniz Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Ziniz enclosed track power and free conveyor offers ultimate flexibility for a conveyor system. Individual loads may be stopped, switched, lowered/lifted, accumulated in-line and diagonally or parallel banked without interrupting the flow of...

Aluminum silicate. (Product Innovations).(NeoGen FTE by Imerys Paint and Additives Group)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... NeoGen FTE is the newest addition to the NeoGen family of high performance products. A proprietary, structured aluminum silicate, NeoGen ETE is an enhanced pigment which imparts both excellent optical and low sheen properties. The unique...

Site surveys. (Product Innovations).(Stewart R. Browne Manufacturing Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Stewart R. Browne Manufacturing helps identify, control and monitor electrostatic charge build-up in areas involving flammable liquids and dry powders with their full range of static grounding clamps, assemblies, retractable reels and ground...

Measuring powder before baking. (Product Innovations).(ElektroPhysik USA)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ElektroPhysik's patented F1.6P Powder Probe measures powder before baking. By knowing the exact mil thickness of powder applied, you can predict the cured thickness. The F1.6P Powder Probe is designed to reduce set-up time and the amount of...

Narrow particle size distribution. (Product Innovations).(Pall Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Nexis C filter is a new advanced polypropylene melt blown product that achieves performance and productivity improvements for coatings formulations with narrow particle-size distributions. This is the ideal filter cartridge for applications...

Two-stage pretreatment system. (Product Innovations).(Pressure Island)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Pressure Island's state-of-the-art pretreatment system for powder and surface coatings is a 6-foot-by-12-foot system. It cleans substrates, applies phosphate and rinses in an easy-to-use two-stage system. The cleaning process utilizes water...

Iron oxide pigments. (Product Innovations).(Shanghai Yipin International Pigments Co. Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Yipin mainly manufactures synthetic iron oxide pigments for coatings and other industries. Yipin Pigments are manufactured with advanced technological manufacturing methods and permanent strict quality control. Shanghai Yipin International...

New business models. (Industry Forum).(automotive manufacturers and suppliers)
January 1, 2003... Many articles have been written about the demise of the relationship between automotive manufacturers and suppliers. Evidence of this demise is seen in the steadily increasing frequency of bankruptcies. Suppliers are also directed to achieve...

Defining value in the finishing industry.(JBI Spray Booth Systems)
January 1, 2003... Being a leader in the industry often means changing the way the marketplace looks at things. The concept of value has been challenged in recent years by the proliferation of companies selling components and systems solely on the issue of price....

Celebrating 10 years of heat-cleaning excellence!(Steelman Industries Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Since 1957 Steelman Industries has provided the coating industry with state-of-the-art industrial processing ovens. Thirty-five years later Steelman Industries entered the heat-cleaning market with the same industrial quality equipment our...