Industrial Paint & Powder articles from May 2001

Industrial Paint & Powder archives from May 2001

Industry Works to Introduce Engineering to More Girls.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Women may constitute over 50% of the population, but they are severely underrepresented in the engineering profession. Research shows that girls and young women lose interest in the classroom subjects leading to engineering careers long before...

Industry Applauds Overturn of Ergonomics Standard.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... OSHA's ergonomics standard, which became effective on Jan. 19, was short-lived. In early March, following the lead of the Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives used its authority under the Congressional Review Act of 1996 and repealed the...

Mays Chemical and Red Spot Form Joint Venture.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Mays Chemical Co. (Indianapolis) and Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co. Inc. (Evansville, IN) have formed Mays+Red Spot Coatings LLC (Taylor, MI) to serve product finishers in North America. The new company expects to begin manufacturing in 2002. ...

Donate Excess Inventory for a Tax Deduction.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Businesses that have built up inventory because of a slowdown in the economy can turn the nonmoving merchandise into a federal income tax deduction by donating it to charity. Regular (C) corporations can deduct the cost of the inventory...

Avecia Opens New Biocides R&D Center.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Avecia Inc. (New Castle, DE) has opened a 13,800-square-foot research & development center in New Castle that will serve as the U.S. R&D headquarters for the company's biocides business. The new center houses 16 offices, six full-sized...

PPG Opens New Workcell in Wisconsin.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... PPG Industries (Pittsburgh) has opened a new Kaleidoscope Workcell for the production of 5- to 1 000-gallon batches of Duranar coatings in Janesville, WI. Introduced in 1995 at PPG's Delaware, OH, plant, Kaleidoscope Workcell technology...

Engineering Community Works to Introduce Profession to More Girls.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... To fight a possible shortage of qualified workers in the engineering and high-tech fields, a coalition of concerned public and private groups launched the first annual "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" during National Engineers Week in...

RadTech Chooses Diehl as President-Elect.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... David Diehl of PPG Industries Inc. has been voted president-elect by the membership of RadTech International (Bethesda, MD). He will assume the presidency on Jan. 1, 2003. In addition, board member Leigh Quinn Jr., QureTech, has been...

Cost Comparison Software Available on PCI Web Site.(Powder Coating Institute)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Internet surfers who log onto the Powder Coating Institute's (Alexandria, VA) Web site at www.powdercoating.org can now access powder vs. liquid operational cost analysis software at no charge. Initially developed in 1997 and revised in 1999,...

C.A. Litzler Co. Inc.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Continuous process equipment manufacturer C.A. Litzler Co. Inc. (Cleveland) has acquired Thermovation Engineering (Cleveland) and Molding & Coating Technologies. Thermovation's custom-designed heating, handling and process control systems and...

Guertin Bros. Coatings & Sealants Ltd.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Guertin Bros. Coatings & Sealants Ltd. (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is building a 21,600-square-foot finished-goods warehouse at its Winnipeg facility. The new warehouse will free up 8,000 square feet of space for the company's powder...

Industrial Heating Equipment Association.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (Arlington, VA) Board of Directors has elected Steven Peterson (Drevor Co.) president for the year 2001. As president, Peterson will also serve as chairman of the IHEA board of directors and...

Nylok Canada Inc.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Nylok Canada Inc. has received QS-9000 certification for its state-of-the-art fastener processing facility in Brampton, Ontario.

Fourth-quarter 2000 shipments.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Fourth-quarter 2000 shipments of OEM product coatings decreased to 101.3 million gallons, down from 107.6 million gallons in the fourth quarter of 1999, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Shipments of OEM product coatings are up to 449.7...

Akzo Nobel Honored by EPA.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Waukegan, IL-based Akzo Nobel Aerospace Coatings (ANAC) has been awarded membership in the EPA's National Environmental Achievement Track, which is designed to reward environmental leaders in the public and private sectors. ANAC is one of only...

Two Corporations and Operator Sentenced.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Two West Virginia companies and their farmer operator have been sentenced for defrauding West Virginia's Division of Highways from 1994 to 1999. The defendants illegally disposed of excess paint in various ways, including spraying it into...

Bush Shelves Kyoto Treaty.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... President Bush stunned European leaders and environmental activists when he announced at the end of March that the United States would abandon the 1997 Kyoto treaty on global warming. He bluntly stated that he would place America's economic...

BASF Wins Pace Award.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... BASF has received the 2001 Automotive News PACE Award in the environmental-advances category. The prize was awarded for the coating process BASF developed with DaimlerChrysler and Durr Systems for the Mercedes-Benz A-Class model made at the...

The Colors They Are A-Changin'.
May 1, 2001... Times have changed, and manufacturers are using special-effect pigments to create bold, new looks that distinguish their products in the marketplace. If you're whizzing down the road and a passing car turns from green to purple, or...

Price or Cost? THAT Is the Question.
May 1, 2001... Achieve true savings in powder coating applications by looking beyond the price. Since powder coating material is one of the major costs of a powder coating application, the first step that a coater goes through when evaluating powder...

SUVs Drive Expansion at Guardian Automotive.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... The Tier 1 facility has doubled its use of robots t6 meet the burgeoning need for exterior parts created by the SUV market. The proliferation of sport/utility vehicles means automakers need more and bigger exterior parts to cover the army...

Roobol on Painting.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Plastic Blasting or Chemical Stripping? I read an article about removing paint with plastic abrasive blasting media. The article mentioned that methylene chloride and phenyl strippers are illegal. Are there contract stripping companies that...

Powder Coating with Collins.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Does a National Average Pay Range Exist? Is there a national average pay range for powder coating technicians for either a union or non-union shop? Also, is there a job description for different companies that determines the pay scale? ...

Coatings R&D Notebook.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Using Zinc Oxide as a Pigment What are the major advantages of using zinc oxide as a pigment? Zinc oxide is a low-cost hiding pigment, although the hide is not sufficient for many applications without the addition of titanium dioxide....

Virtually Working.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... Hiring and retaining talented personnel on a full-time or contractual basis can be difficult when unemployment is low and the economy, despite some notable exceptions of late, is pretty solid. Two Web sites, each in a different way, can help....