Industrial Paint & Powder articles from June 2003

Industrial Paint & Powder archives from June 2003

Cost control. (Editor's View).(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... When business is going well, we are all alert to projects and investment that will cut costs or improve overall performance. I just spoke with someone today who remarked that he had instituted projects with a total cost of $800,000 and a...

DuPont Powder Coatings names new president. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... DuPont Coatings and Color Technologies has named David Lazzeri as president of DuPont Powder Coatings, Americas (Houston). He succeeds Steve Cox, who is now leading the DuPont Automotive OEM Coatings unit from its headquarters in Troy, MI. ...

Clearcoat nets PPG fourth consecutive PACE award. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... PPG Industries Inc. (Pittsburgh) says its CeramiClear automotive clearcoat has won a PACE award for automotive-industry innovations, marking the fourth consecutive year the company has won the prize. The clearcoat employs nanoparticle...

By the numbers.(Biocides market trends)
June 1, 2003... 5.6%--Predicted annual global growth rate of biocides through 2006. $5.9 billion--Predicted value of biocide shipments in 2006. World demand for biocides is projected to increase 5.6% per year to $5.9 billion in 2006, according to World...

ASTM seeks users of color specifications. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Color specialists in ASTM Committee DO 1 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications are requesting users of color specifications to help them develop a "Standard Guide Protocol for How a Supplier and Customer Set a Color...

Finishes Unlimited receives grant for near-zero-VOC coating tests. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Finishes Unlimited (Sugar Grove, IL) has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the EPA to continue research on application techniques for its near zero-VOC bake enamel waterborne coating. More than 300...

Tess Award winner announced. (News Watch).
June 1, 2003... Rose Ryntz, manager and staff technical fellow with Visteon Corp. (Dearborn, MI), will receive the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2003. The announcement was made by the officers and award committee of the Division of Polymeric Materials:...

Elcometer acquires Braive Instruments. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Elcometer Instruments (Rochester Hills, MI) has acquired the business of Braive Instruments SA in Belgium and its French company Braive France Sarl, manufacturers of physical test equipment for the paint and powder coating industry. The...

Happy 125th. (News Watch).
June 1, 2003... APV Engineered Coatings (Akron, OH) recently celebrated 125 years in business. The company began producing wood varnishes and black paints for the bicycle industry in 1878, about the same time that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. ...

General Motors honors BASF. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... BASF has been named General Motors Supplier of the Year for exceptional performance as a global supplier of automotive OEM coatings. The award marks the first time a company has been named by GM as a Supplier of the Year for automotive...

Eastman Chemical Co. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, TN) says its Accurate Dispersions division h received ISO 9001:2000 certification by Quality Management Institute, an independent registrar.

Ciba Specialty Chemicals. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Ciba Specialty Chemicals has announced a major expansion of its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Monthey, Switzerland. A new production line is to be added to increase capacity for Ciba's high-performance diketo-pyrrolo-pyrrole...

DSM Desotech. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... DSM Desotech, a supplier of UV-cure materials, has earned ISO 14001 certification for its sales and manufacturing facility in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands.

Degussa. (News in Brief).
June 1, 2003... Degussa's Piscataway, NJ, colorant production plant has been recommended for certification to the ISO 14001 environmental standard and the ISO 9001:2000 quality standard. Its Brampton, Ontario, colorant plant has been recommended for...

Spraylat. (News in Brief).
June 1, 2003... Spraylat's Powder Business Unit (Gainesville, TX) has received the ISO 9001:2000 quality standard certification.

Crompton Corp. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Crompton Corp.'s (Greenwich, CT) OSi Specialties has achieved Class A Business Excellence Certification from Oliver Wright, a global management consulting and education firm. The firm has certified 1,000 companies worldwide since 1977. OSi...

Sartomer Co. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In a move designed to increase purchasing convenience for its customers, global specialty chemicals manufacturer Sartomer Co. (Exton, PA) has announced that it has joined the Elemica e-business Network. Members of the Elemica Network can place...

Ace Equipment Co. (People).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Robert Heran is celebrating his 40th anniversary as CEO of Ace Equipment Co. (Cleveland). Over the years Heran has designed numerous pieces of equipment, including automatic stop coil winding equipment; tensioning devices; wire racks and...

PPG Industries. (People).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... David Morris, global general manager of sales and marketing for the aerospace business unit of PPG Industries (Pittsburgh), was named vice president, aerospace. He replaces Dennis Kovalsky, who was named vice president for the company's...

DuPont Automotive. (People).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... DuPont Automotive (Troy, MI) has appointed two executives to key leadership positions in its DuPont Herberts Automotive Systems unit for automotive OEM coatings. Marty McQuade, formerly vice president, now is global vice president and general...

DuPont Powder Coatings. (People).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Trena Benson has been appointed Custom Coater Business Segment Manager by DuPont Powder Coatings (Houston). Her position was developed as an effort to develop better ways to service the market segment. As a result of the change, Craig Dietz has...

Coming events.
June 1, 2003... June CCAI Annual Meeting June 21-24, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Sponsor: CCAI 513-624-6767 AWMA 96th Annual Conference and Exhibition June 22-26, San Diego Sponsor: Air & Waste Management Association 301-493-5500 ASTM...

Report: high-wage jobs moving to China increasing. (In Focus).
June 1, 2003... At one time, most manufacturing jobs that left the United States for China were concentrated in relatively low-skill, low-wage jobs in light manufacturing industries, such as apparel and textiles. But an increasing number of jobs now leaving...

Building a legacy in Amish country: when tragedy struck the family of a rural Wisconsin social services worker, two brothers set out on a journey that has changed their lives and inspired others.
June 1, 2003... The two-lane highway outside of Cashton in southwestern Wisconsin climbs, twists, dips and climbs again, winding around farms and hills. On a ridge in the distance, wild turkeys march in a straight line. Down a hill, a group of men and boys...

Bush Hog grows bigger, faster: Bush Hog's new 4,000-square-foot environmentally controlled paint room reduces labor and equipment. Powder coating color changes are performed by one person in 10 minutes.
June 1, 2003... A thousand people tour this facility each year," says Randy Smith, plant manager of Bush Hog LLC's Jonesboro, TN, facility. "And after they're done, all they want to talk about is the paint line." The new 400,000-square-foot Jonesboro...

Are we there yet? Knowing when it's time to install an antomatic system and choosing the right one can mean material and labor savings, more repeatable results, lower VOCs and increased production.
June 1, 2003... The evolution in finishing, stated simply, is from paintbrush to manual air spray to manual electrostatics to automation. Liquid spray finishing systems usually start with a manual, conventional spray gun operation. This is because conventional...

Roobol on painting.
June 1, 2003... Friction-Reducing Coatings We are a firm of naval architects working with a marine design-and-build organization on a new transoceanic sailing vessel. This boat is intended to be a superior racing sailboat for international competitions....

Powder coating.
June 1, 2003... Adhesion Between Two Powder Types We use some epoxy powders and some epoxy/polyester hybrid powders. If we apply a second coat, can we count on good adhesion between the two layers? Is it okay to apply a second coat that may he a different...

Coatings R&D notebook.
June 1, 2003... Anti-skinning Agents How do anti-skinning agents such as oximes and ketoximes help prevent skinning in coating systems? Skinning has long been observed as a potential problem for certain coating systems that contain unsaturated resin...

Powder coatings for fastener heads. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... Nylok Corp. is offering a new line of fused-on powder coatings for fastener heads that meet GM 4383 M specifications. Nylok powder coatings form a consistent and durable coating that prevents metal-to-metal contact and provides wear resistance,...

Burn-off oven. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... The latest design from Ace Equipment Co., the Model RT Radiant Tube Oven, is engineered to reduce oven wear, improve cycle times, reduce energy costs and provide more uniform heating. By utilizing an innovative Radiant Tube, customers get the...

Lightweight spray gun. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... ITW Ransburg has introduced the DuraLite2 gun, which is lighter than the original lightweight DuraLite gun, has 20% fewer gun parts and has a 30% reduction in its trigger pull. Money-saving benefits include reduced labor and material costs,...

Formulation, quality-assurance software. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... X-Rite has launched X-RiteColor Master Web Edition, a new version of X-RiteColor Master formulation and quality assurance software, created to work in a server-based computing environment. The product is for corporations with multiple locations...

Multifunctional datalogger. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... Telatemp Corp. offers the Hygro-Thermometer, a small, portable multifunctional datalogger that can take up to 15,000 humidity, temperature, dew point and wet bulb measurements. Time-and-date-stamped data is available in list or graph form using...

Water-soluble difunctional monomer. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... International Specialty Products Inc. has introduced Rapi-Cure DYB1D, an addition to its family of reactive vinylether monomers for radiation curing systems. RapiCure is a versatile monomer due to its water solubility and difunctionality. The...

Pretreatment technology. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... Chemetall Oakite has announced Gardobond A 4920, a liquid pretreatment that has been formulated to replace conventional treatments on steel and that provides superior performance at reduced operating temperatures-as low as 80[degrees]F, the...

Long-lasting filters. (Product Innovations).
June 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, nonlinting and moisture resistant. The Advanced Dual Dimple (ADD) technology, a manufacturing...

Tapes for metal applications. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... A line of adhesive tapes and films for high performance in metal bonding applications is available from Dielectric Polymers, Division of Adhesive Applications Inc. Film tapes include powder coating tapes constructed of polyester film with...

Manual spray gun system. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... With operator-selectable, product-specific coating modes, Nordson Corp.'s Sure Coat manual spray gun system provides automakers and manufacturers of specialty automotive products with advanced coating performance. The gun's Select Charge...

Polyurea-dedicated proportioner. (Product Innovations).
June 1, 2003... To meet the high-temperature, high-pressure demands of polyurea applications, Graco has announced the Reactor E-XP, the first polyurea-dedicated proportioner, the company says. Built-in diagnostics provide ratio assurance, easing operator use,...

A stimulating challenge. (Industry Forum).
June 1, 2003... About a year ago, our Product Design Engineering group came to me looking for a new marine paint coating that could be applied to a new outboard engine. For practical and budgetary purposes, a low-cost paint-application process was also...