American Paint & Coatings Journal articles from June 1996

American Paint & Coatings Journal archives from June 1996

Southern SCT meets, greets, and exchanges knowledge. (Southern Society for Coatings Technology)
June 24, 1996... Tampa -- With a strong nod toward waterborne products the 60th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Coatings Technology provided significant technical data and opportunities to share ideas and information here. New directions in...

Polyethylene homopolymers, copolymers in VOC-compliant coating systems.
June 24, 1996... This paper was presented at the Western Coatings Societies' 22nd Biennial Symposium & Show Feb. 20-22, 1995, in San Francisco. Donald Loar and Ann Tiefenthaler are with AlliedSignal Inc. Performance Additives, P.O. Box 1039, 101 Columbia...

Newest threat to spray paint industry: non-portable spray paint legislation.
June 24, 1996... Graffiti vandalism continues to plague the spray paint industry. In major urban centers all over this country, spray paint remains the favorite tool of the most prolific graffiti vandals, and cities, counties and municipalities continue to...

Qualimetry of coatings: 'valuable' coating properties, their rates of importance.
June 24, 1996... Author's note: This is the second of a series of three articles on paint quality. Dr. Vladimir Werkholantsev is with Tambour Ltd., P.O. Box 2238, Akko 24 121, Israel. Phone: (972) 4 985 3794. FAX: (972) 4 985 3533. The author is indebted to...

Orders on the increase, business reported good. (paint and coatings industry)(Industry Overview)
June 24, 1996... Kansas City, -- Those in the know say the economy is still go. Citing low inflation rates (which some economists call "no inflation") as well as low unemployment and some encouraging signs of painting and fixing and buying of durables, the...

Water closing in on solvent performance: acrylics, oils, urethanes, pigments explored in Seattle at Pacific Northwest affair. (49th Annual Spring Symposium of the Pacific Northwest Society for Coatings Technology)
June 10, 1996... Seattle - New water-borne binders and heavy-metal-free pigments provide performance comparable to older solvent-borne materials, speakers told the Pacific Northwest Society for Coatings Technology here. The 49th Annual Spring Symposium of...

Qualimetry of coatings: a quantitative approach to their quality.
June 10, 1996... Part 1: Introduction into qualimetry of coatings Qualitative approaches, contrary to quantitative ones, employ non-measured or even non-measurable definitions. Typical features of the quality definition is its complex, generalized character,...

Water-borne epoxies, silica flatting agents, milling dot program at meetings of Cleveland society. (Cleveland Society for Coatings Technology)
June 10, 1996... Cleveland - Formulating water-borne epoxy coatings, silica flatting agents for water-bornes, and advances in milling were explained to the Cleveland Society for Coatings Technology at recent meetings. Dr. Ernest C. Galgoci, Shell Chemical...

Computers in lab: the laptop.
June 10, 1996... I've been a computerist since 1963, when I took the first course in FORTRAN assembly programming. My computer usage was spotty at first (access to mainframes was limited), but I learned FORTRAN IV and was an intermittent user for about 20...

Coatings Care: comprehensive health, safety, environmental program now being unwrapped.
June 10, 1996... The NPCA has recently finalized its plans for its two-year development of Coatings Care[TM], the paint and coatings industry's comprehensive health, safety and environmental management initiative. The voluntary program is scheduled to be...