Industrial Paint & Powder articles from May 2002

Industrial Paint & Powder archives from May 2002

Choice, chance and change. (Editor's View).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The above title was the theme of motivational speaker Frank Candy's entertaining and insightful keynote address at the recent Electrocoat 2002 conference. It also describes the conference, the realities facing the coatings industry and what...

EPA proposes air pollution emission standard. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The EPA has issued a proposed hazardous air pollutant emission standard for the manufacture of paints, coatings, inks, adhesives and some polymers and resins. The proposal includes hazardous air pollution emission limits and work-practice...

New Powder Coatings R&D center opens. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Bayer Corp. (Pittsburgh) is expanding its powder coating technology capabilities with the opening of a $1.5 million Powder Coatings Global Research and Development Competency Center at the company's Pittsburgh campus. The 1,600-square-foot,...

A 'threepeat' for PPG. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... For the third consecutive year, PPG Industries (Pittsburgh) has won a PACE Award. The PACE Awards program, which is sponsored by Automotive News magazine and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, honors automotive suppliers around the world for product...

Akzo Nobel expands powder coating facility. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Akzo Nobel (Arnhem, The Netherlands) is investing 12 million euros ($10.7 million) in its powder coatings facility in Cernobbio, Italy. The move represents the launch of an expansion plan which will double powder production capacity at the...

BASF named industry leader. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... BASE Corp. (Mount Olive, NJ) has been named a chemical-industry leader in innovation in Fortune magazine's listing of the world's most admired companies. In the annual list, based on surveys of business executives and analysts, BASE was named...

DuPont's CEO waives bonus. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... DuPont Co. (Wilmington, DE) Chairman and CEO Charles Holliday waived his bonus for fiscal 2001 and requested a personal pay freeze after the worldwide recession weakened the company's earnings, according to the annual shareholder proxy filed in...

Companies moving business online. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Two companies, Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, MI) and Millennium Inorganic Chemicals (Red Bank, NJ), have recently launched Web sites designed to facilitate the purchase of raw materials. Dow Corning has launched Xiameter, a new business model...

New test for evolved Formaldehyde in Coatings. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A task group of ASTM Subcommittee D01.21 on Chemical Analysis of Paints and Paint Materials has proposed a test method to determine the amount of formaldehyde evolved from melamine coatings during the curing process, titled Standard Test Method...

Lubrizol Corp. acquires Chemron Corp. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Lurbrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, OH) announced that it has completed its acquisition of Chemron Corp. (Paso Robles, CA). The acquisition consisted of Chemron's business and substantially all of the assets, including manufacturing operations located...

PPI expands. (News Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Professional Paint Inc. (PPI) has reached an agreement with Jones-Blair Co. (Dallas) to buy the majority of Jones-Blair's operating assets for an undisclosed purchase price. PPI (Denver) is the parent company of six additional regional...

Clarification.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... In the 'Accelerating Waterborne Flash-Off Time" feature (March), Gregg Matschke is identified as a consultant. At the time of the study, he was employed by Advanced Technology & Marketing LLC (Clarkston, MI), where much of the research was...

Jeep liberty--the future of DaimlerChrysler.
May 1, 2002... With a chrome-free phosphate, a lead-free E-coat process, a powder coating prime coat, a waterborne basecoat and a superior ergonomic design, the new Jeep plant is as green and comfortable as they come. Incorporating the best technology...

The open road of auto coatings: success in the automotive coatings industry depends on experimentation and innovation, even in the most trying economic conditions.
May 1, 2002... When a neon-yellow Volkswagen Beetle speeds along the highway or a sleek, silver Cadillac Deville cruises by, people often notice. And when a jet-black Ford Explorer tears down a dirt road, its owner is confident the vehicle will be able to...

A watershed for waterbornes: Automakers are replacing interior plastic components with newer plastics that are challenging the performance of manufacturers' waterborne coatings.
May 1, 2002... Coatings for the plastic components of automotive interiors are going through another major transition. In the 1980s, automakers shifted from solventborne to waterborne coatings to dramatically reduce VOCs. Now automakers are switching from...

Paint stripping that pushes the envelope.
May 1, 2002... The U.S. Air Force and Southwest Research Institute's commitment to advanced technology, willingness to take a risk and need for improvement drove them to develop a unique automated depaint system. In the mid-1980s, the Air Force was using...

Roobol on painting. (Problem Solving: Q&A).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Differences in Color Measurement Systems I found your name on the Industrial Paint & Powder Web site, and I hope you can shed some light on color measurement for me. When we calculate the delta E on drawdowns, we can choose between the XYZ...

Powder coating with Tom Matthey. (Problem Solving: Q&A).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Maximizing the Advantages of Reciprocators We have a powder coating booth with eight guns on each side. The biggest part we coat is 68 inches high. We recently acquired some used reciprocators so that we can push our line speed to 28.5 feet...

Coatings R&D notebook. (Problem Solving: Q&A).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Additives That Measure Performance What coating additives permit monitoring the in-service performance of an applied coating? Several coating additive applications have proven valuable as indicators of the changing characteristics of an...

Microwave-powered UV curing. (Product Innovations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Light Hammer 6 operates in the power class of 500 watts/inch and features two modular components--the microwave irradiator and a solid state power supply. An electrodeless 6-inch bulb is mounted in an elliptical reflector for focusing 2.1...

Management and data acquisition system. (Product Innovations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... ChemOPS is a chemical management and data acquisition system used to improve cost and quality output from pretreatment machines, phosphate machines, E-coat systems and other coating processes. ChemOPS' enhanced process control will reduce...

Controlled pump protection. (Product Innovations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The NEMO Pump Division of Netzsch Inc. offers a stator protection device that prevents pumps from running dry in situations where a pump is possibly unattended during operation. The stator protection device consists of a thermocouple (mounted...

Guns that provide ergonomics and high performance. (Product Innovations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The new Kremlin PowerLite series M21 guns deliver high finish quality with industrial-duty performance and a light trigger for ergonomic handling. The guns come standard with a new heavy-duty needle extra-life two-piece packing, fast pattern...

Strong, repellant grips. (Product Innovations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tuffoam grips are durable and can give products added aesthetic qualities with eye-catching colors. The one-piece constructions cannot come apart. The Tuffoam material repels perspiration and moisture and helps prevent harmful hand fatigue. ...

Change is in the air. (Web Watch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... If you feel like your profits are vanishing into thin air, they could be... literally. It's not unusual for 30% of a plant's electricity costs to go toward the production of compressed air, which can be produced more cheaply using natural gas,...