The Journal of Coatings Technology articles from April 2001

The Journal of Coatings Technology archives from April 2001

Virtual Heroics.
April 1, 2001... How often do you come across a way that you can help your company maintain its technical edge, teach your colleagues about an important aspect of coatings technology, and improve your own understanding all at the same time? What if I told you...

Frank N. Jones to Receive 2001 Tess Award During the 222nd Annual Meeting of ACS.
April 1, 2001... The Officers and the Award Committee of the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., have announced that Dr. Frank N. Jones, Professor and Director of the National...

Eastman Chemical Company to Become Two Independent Companies.
April 1, 2001... Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, has announced that it will divide into two independent public companies, the "Specialty Chemicals and Plastics" company and the "PET Plastics and Acetate Fibers" company. Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr.,...

Dow Acquires Union Carbide; Sells Amine Businesses to Huntsman International and INEOS.
April 1, 2001... Upon agreeing to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) stipulation that they must divest intellectual property related to the production of plastic trash bags, The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, MI, has announced the completion of its $7.3-billion...

Southern Clay Awarded $78 Million In Patent Infringement Case.
April 1, 2001... Southern Clay Products, Inc., Gonzales, TX, has been awarded $78 million in a final judgement against Sud-Chemie, Inc., formerly known as United Catalysts, Inc., by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt in the Houston Division of the U.S....

Avecia Opens New Biocides R&D Center.
April 1, 2001... Avecia Inc., Manchester, England, has opened a new 13,800 sq. ft. Research & Development Center at its New Castle, DE site. The $4.5 million facility will serve as the U.S. R&D headquarters for the company's Biocides business. The center...

Walsh & Associates Presents $1,000 in Scholarships.
April 1, 2001... In memory of George Claytor, Walsh & Associates, Inc., St. Louis, MO, has presented scholarship checks totaling $1,000 to the St. Louis Paint and Coatings Association and the St. Louis Society for Coatings Technology. George Claytor helped...

Coloration Technology: Journal of the Society Of Dyers and Colourists Relaunched.
April 1, 2001... For 116 years the Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists (JSDC), Bradford, United Kingdom, has published peer-reviewed papers dealing with subjects such as dyes and pigments, dyeing theory and practice, color physics and a host of...

Ten "Hottest" Chemical Technologies Named.
April 1, 2001... The Patent & License Exchange Inc. (pl-x) has named the "top 10" hottest chemical technology niches as determined by their Technology Risk/Reward Unit (TRRU) intangible asset data. The pl-x, the financial marketplace for intellectual property...

Fischer Technology Opens New Sales, Service Facility.
April 1, 2001... Expanding its service capabilities to enhance accessibility and response time for customers, Fischer Technology, Inc., Windsor, CT, has opened a new sales and service facility in McKinney, TX, near Dallas. In addition to sales and service,...

Eastman and Ashland Establish B2B Connection.
April 1, 2001... Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, TN, and Ashland Distribution Co.'s Industrial Chemicals and Solvents (IC&S) Division, Dublin, OH, have established a supplier / distributor, machine-to-machine connection that allows Ashland's IC&S Division to...

Rheometric Scientific to Market Camtel Instruments.
April 1, 2001... Rheometric Scientific, Inc., Piscataway, NJ, has signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance with Camtel Ltd., Royston, United Kingdom, to be the sole marketer and distributor for all Camtel Ltd. instruments. Camtel Ltd. is a manufacturer...

Nanostructured Silicon Sol-Gel Surface Treatments for Al 2024-T3 Protection.
April 1, 2001... A.J. Vreugdenhil [+] V.N. Balbyshev [**] Air Force Research Laboratories [*] Current coatings for aircraft corrosion protection are based on chromate surface treatments, primers, and topcoats. One approach to developing a...

NEXT GENERATION OF Aircraft Coatings Systems.
April 1, 2001... North Dakota State University [*] The current generation of aircraft coatings had its basis in the polymer technologies of the 1970s and the use of chromate-based metal pretreatments and primers. There have been some incremental...

Novel Coatings From Soybean Oil Phosphate Ester Polyols.
April 1, 2001... John Massingill [+] Coatings Research Institute/Eastern Michigan University [*] Novel coatings with excellent properties have been formulated from polyols derived from the renewable resource soybean oil. Partially and fully epoxidized...

Influence of Additives on Interfacial Phenomena During Film Formation of Powder Coatings.
April 1, 2001... Institute of Polymer Research Dresden [*] Film formation of powder coatings is illuminated from a physico-chemical point of view. Significant parameters influencing the film formation of powder coatings are surface (wetting) tension and...

Digital System for Detecting, Classifying, and Fast Retrieving Corrosion Generated Defects.
April 1, 2001... National Technical University of Athens [*] The in-situ assessment of the degradation of a coating system is often difficult, especially in cases such as underwater piping systems. Furthermore, the results of the optical inspection are...

Vegetable Black Olive Pigment.
April 1, 2001... ENGEIHARD CORPORATION Vegetabler[TM]Black Olive pigment, from Engelhard Corporation, is a black, mica-based effect pigment with champagne undertones that is available in exterior and industrial grades. This new product extends the range of...

Coatings Industry Pigments.
April 1, 2001... DOMINION COLOUR CORPORATION Dominion Colour Corp. has introduced two new pigments for the coatings industry. DCC 1831 is an opaque grade of Pigment Orange 5. It provides a reddish, orange hue and offers good weatherfastness and good...

Metalure[R].
April 1, 2001... ECKART AMERICA Metalure[R] dispersions offer a highly reflective silver finish for aluminum, glass, metal, plastic, and wood substrates that cannot be achieved with traditional aluminum pigments. Application areas include, automotive,...

Geode[R] Inorganic Colors.
April 1, 2001... FERRO CORPORATION A new Geode[R]line of "PC" complex inorganic color pigments has been engineered by Ferro Corporation. This new line of pigments is compatible with most solvent- and water-based systems. The pigments are synthesized using...

"Iron Oxide Technology".
April 1, 2001... Graham Watson, of Laporte Pigments, discussed "NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN IRON OXIDE TECHNOLOGY." Mr. Watson stated that the world market for precipitated red iron oxides is 500,000 tons and that it is usually produced in two ways: calcination...

"Aerosol Technology".
April 1, 2001... The meeting's technical speaker was Graham A. Howarth. He spoke on "AEROSOL TECHNOLOGY." Mr. Howarth stated that aerosols are used in the construction, automotive, food, and cosmetic industries. He said that approximately 500,000,000...

Past-Presidents' Night.
April 1, 2001... A moment of silence was observed in memory of Dick Fortner, of Celanese. Gordon Brown, of The Argus Co., received a 50-year membership pin. Julie Routt, of Porter Paint Co., presented a pin to Past-President Chris Lockhart, of American...

"Dihydrogen Monoxide".
April 1, 2001... Technical Committee Chair Ron Adkins, of 3M Company, announced that the Technical Committee will present a paper at ICE 2001. The paper will discuss wet adhesion and will include an introduction and some theory. The speaker for the meeting...

Manufacturers' Night.
April 1, 2001... Seventeen exhibitors representing coatings manufacturing technology participated in table-top displays. Companies involved in mixing and dispersing, filtering, rheology testing, pumping, attrition grinding, as well as media and blade...

"Properties of Surfactants and Their Use in Coatings".
April 1, 2001... A moment of silence was observed in memory of William A. Ritz, of W.A. Ritz Marketing Co. Dwight Weldon, of KTA-Tator, Inc., announced that the Society is development an educational grant program for members. The money may be used to...

General Membership Meeting.
April 1, 2001... A moment of silence was observed in memory of FSCT Past-President Howard Jerome. President Brandon Hunt, of U.S. Paint Corp., invited members to assist the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) with a research project on...

People.
April 1, 2001... Southern Society member, Bert Templeton, Marketing and Sales Manager of the Coatings Raw Materials business unit for BASF Corp., Charlotte, NC, has been recognized as the 2000 EIFS Industry Members Association (EIMA) Member of the Year. The...

Obituaries.
April 1, 2001... Umberto (Bert) Ancona, an active member of the Philadelphia Society, passed away February 25, 2001. Dr. Ancona was employed with McCloskey Varnish Co. for 31 years, serving as Technical Director, Vice President, and a member of the Board of...

Non-Migrating Surfactants.
April 1, 2001... Stepan Company has released their new non-migrating surfactants for emulsion polymerization. The Polystep NMS series is a line of reactive surfactants with the reactive moiety located on the counter-ion. Reportedly, the location of the reactive...

Topcoat Application Resin.
April 1, 2001... Eastman Chemical Co. has announced Acrylamac HS 2365, a new functional acrylic resin designed for topcoat applications in the industrial maintenance and marine market. The resin is a high-solids, hydroxy functional acrylic polyol specifically...

Wetting and Dispersing Agents.
April 1, 2001... Tego Chemie Service USA has introduced two wetting and dispersing agents. Tego[R] Dispers 752W is to be used to prepare aqueous concentrates of transparent iron oxides and transparent [TiO.sub.2] pigments. Tego[R] LA-D 605 is designed to aid...

Pre-Weighed Carbon Black.
April 1, 2001... Carbon black is now available in pre-weighed copolymer bags from Polymer Valley Chemicals. Based on customer specifications, bags are available in weights up to 60 lb. The low-melt bags are offered in the customer's choice of melting points of...

Acrylic Emulsion.
April 1, 2001... Essential Industries has introduced a new high gloss acrylic emulsion. R 5800 is a 48.5% solids, high performance acrylic emulsion that is designed to be used as the sole resin, or as a grinding and dispersing vehicle that will reportedly raise...

Plastics Reference.
April 1, 2001... The fourth edition of the Rauch Guide to the U.S. Plastics Industry is now available. This 629-page edition includes 18 tables, 372 company profiles, and updated information through the end of 2000. The volume is designed for use by suppliers...

AODD Pump Handbook.
April 1, 2001... Yamada America, Inc. has released its Pump Engineering Handbook. The 135-page handbook focuses on air operated double diaphragm (AODD) pumps. The publication contains hydraulic data, formulas and conversions, friction loss tables, viscous fluid...

Powder Coatings Study.
April 1, 2001... "Powder Coatings, IV," a multi-client, techno-economic marketing study has been completed by Skeist Inc. The study provides a comprehensive investigation into polymers, formulations, markets, supply-demand, applications, suppliers, market...

Chemical Encyclopedia.
April 1, 2001... An abridged version of the 26-volume Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Fourth Edition, is now available in paperback. Published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc., the Concise Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology is a one-volume...

Industrial Pipe and Fittings.
April 1, 2001... Corzan[R] postchlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) industrial pipe, fittings, and ductwork have been developed by Corzan Industrial Systems. Designed as an alternative to metal piping systems, the products feature resistance to oxidants, weak...

Cabinet Oven.
April 1, 2001... Designed to dry coatings on fishing line at a customer's facility, The Grieve No. 840 is a 500[degrees]F electrically-heated, two-zone vertical airflow cabinet oven available from The Grieve Corp. The top heating chamber measures 36 in. x 12...

Colloid Mills.
April 1, 2001... Premier Mill is offering two types of colloid mills, the KSIF and KCD. The KSIF type uses smooth Stellite faces and operates by application of hydraulic shear imparted to a thin film of material as it pushes through the variable gap...

Pump Unit.
April 1, 2001... The new model 40201D pump unit has been released by NLB Corp. Combining the water jet power of up to 40,000 psi (2,800 bar) with a low flow rate of up to 6 gpm (23 lpm), the unit's power comes from a six-cylinder diesel engine and features a...

Manifold Check Valve.
April 1, 2001... Plast-O-Matic Valves, Inc. has announced the availability of a new thermoplastic manifold type check valve for custom applications. The valve is designed to prevent reverse flow while simplifying installation of multiple check valves. Flow...

Color Data.
April 1, 2001... HunterLab has released its Universal Software[R] version 4.0. The software allows the user to collect, store, display, and analyze color data from HunterLab spectrophotometers. The expanded capability of version 4.0 enables the simultaneous...

Filtration.
April 1, 2001... Parker Hannifin Corp.'s Process Filtration Division has released an updated and enhanced version of its exclusive inPHorm software program. The new version 1.5 features an updated product listing, a cross-reference database utility with over...

Viscosity Control.
April 1, 2001... A two-component MS Windows[R]-based control system comprised of a DDE driver and a VB-based operator interface, the WinVisc software package, is available from Norcross Corp. The system is designed to act as the link between a user's PC and the...

Double Monochromator.
April 1, 2001... McPherson, Inc. has developed a double additive monochromator that includes mechanical linkage of two sine drives and wavelength control via a single motor, high-resolution scan drive. Features include dual 350mm focal length with f/ 4.8, [+ or...

Xenon Arc Tester.
April 1, 2001... Q-Panel Lab Products is offering six different models of its Xenon Arc Tester. Q-Sun 1000 B table-top chamber, Q-Sun 1000 S table-top chamber with water spray, Q-Sun 3100 B full size chamber, Q-Sun 3100 S full size chamber with water spray,...

Contoured Surface Testing.
April 1, 2001... Designed to perform contoured surface testing on virtually any size or shape product, Taber Industries has introduced the Model 5700--Linear Abraser. With an adjustable stroke length, speed, load, and wide selection of abradant materials, the...

Duplex Coatings Measurement.
April 1, 2001... The new EDX10 probe from Fischer Technology is designed for the measurement of duplex coatings--paint on zinc on steel substrate. The thickness values for both paint and zinc coatings measured by the unit are simultaneously displayed on the...

RTD Thermometer.
April 1, 2001... Barnant Company has expanded its line of handheld temperature monitoring instruments with the ThermoLogR[R] RTD Thermometer. The device logs up to 1,000 readings ranging from -328[degrees] to 2210[degrees]F (-201[degrees] to 1200[degrees]C),...

Paint Brush Cleaner.
April 1, 2001... New Concepts of Michigan, Inc. is offering the Brush Buddy, a paint brush cleaning system. Polymer bristles on the inside of the cleaning container are designed to help squeeze out excess paint from the brush. During the cleaning process the...

Coatings Remover.
April 1, 2001... Walla Walla Environmental, Inc. has introduced Splatter Remover in a new squeeze bottle and fresh scented formula. The product reportedly removes paint splatters, contact cement, vinyl and tile adhesive, lipstick, tar, and other home...

Explosion Proof Truck.
April 1, 2001... American Specialty Equipment, Inc. has announced the Gregory Rider Straddle Explosion Proof (EX) Truck. With capacities up to 40,000 lbs., the truck is designed for hazardous and explosive material handling in confined areas and for traveling...