The Journal of Coatings Technology articles from February 2002

The Journal of Coatings Technology archives from February 2002

The FSCT--still changing to fit the needs of its members. (Comment).
February 1, 2002... As an industry, as a country, as a world, in recent times we have experienced events that changed us forever. No longer do we see ourselves as part of the whole but still isolated by our own interests. No longer do we feel insulated by a...

FSCT invites you and your colleagues to participate the virtual learning conference program: Mechanical properties of coatings. (Federation News).
February 1, 2002... The FSCT has announced the next program to be offered as part of its continuing Virtual Learning Conferences. "Mechanical Properties of Coatings," consist of a series of three VLCs: (1) March 7--"Fundamentals of Property Determination" by Loren...

Federal issues: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Regulatory Update).
February 1, 2002... EPA to Withdraw Paint Waste Final Rule--After receiving adverse comments from industry groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would withdraw a direct final rule on the disposal of residential lead-based paint waste. ...

California: San Francisco Bay Area to Reduce Allowed Levels of VOCs in Paints, Coatings. (State Issues).
February 1, 2002... The Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Nov. 21 approved a measure to reduce the allowable level of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from architectural paints and coatings. The amendments to the district's Regulation 8,...

Maryland: EPA Takes Over Control of Air Permiting Program in Maryland. (State Issues).
February 1, 2002... The U.S. EPA on Dec. 1 assumed control over Maryland's air permitting program because the state failed to implement adequate public participation in the process as required by the Clean Air Act. According to a Dec. 5 Federal Register...

NAACP, Childhood Lead Alliance to File Lawsuit Against Paint Firms in 2002. (Litigation).
February 1, 2002... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has announced it will follow through with plans to sue paint manufacturers for allegedly harming human health. Last July the NAACP released a statement during its annual...

Newark, NJ, to Sue Lead Industry. (Litigation).
February 1, 2002... Newark, New Jersey on Dec. 4 became the latest in a growing number of governments to sue the lead industry for clean-up costs relating to lead-based paint hazards in housing, and to recover the public health costs of lead poisoning. Rhode...

International. (Regulatory Update).
February 1, 2002... OECD Drafting Recommendations on Evaluating Safety of Industrial Facilities--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Emergency Preparedness and Prevention is helping to develop international guidance for the chemical industry...

Acrylic Resins growth forecasted in paper coatings, plastics, and adhesives markets. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... According to a recent study published by The Freedonia Group, Inc., Cleveland, OH, demand for acrylic resins will increase four percent per year to 3.7 billion pounds in the year 2005, valued at $2.6 billion. Due to concentration in high...

SPI creates ISO 14001 preferred registrar program. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI), Washington, D.C., has announced the creation of a Preferred Registrar Program for member companies seeking third-party audit and registration under ISO 14001. Under the new initiative,...

ASTM changes name. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... ASTM, W. Conshohocken, PA, has changed its name to ASTM International to reinforce the openness of the ASTM standards development process to worldwide input as well as to reflect the global application and use of the standards. To...

Bayer to purchase portion of Lyondell's ADI assets. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Bayer Corp., Pittsburgh, PA, has agreed in principle to purchase a portion of Lyondell Chemical Co.'s aliphatic disocyanates (ADI) assets, including the company's remaining Luxate[R] product inventories and intellectual properties. ...

Akzo Nobel commissions new coatings plant in the U.S. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Akzo Nobel Coatings, Arnhem, The Netherlands, has commissioned a state-of-the-art production plant at its Marine and Protective business unit site in Houston, TX. The $17 million project, executed in phases while production continued, has...

Grace Davison opens TCS centers in Japan and China. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Grace Davison, Columbia, MD, has announced the opening of two Technical Customer Service (TCS) centers for the Asia/Pacific region. The centers are located in Atsugi, Japan and Sunde, Guandong, China. The TCS center in Japan is designed...

Niro and American Custom Drying announce agreement. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Niro Inc., Columbia, MD, and American Custom Drying Co. (ACD), Burlington, NJ, have announced a formal cooperation agreement to combine their expertise. Niro designs, manufactures, engineers, and installs evaporation, drying, and granulation...

Jensen-Sounders to represent Premier Mill. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... Premier Mill, Reading, PA, has announced Jensen-Sounders Associates, Itasca, IL, as a representative of its milling, mixing, and dispersing line of equipment for specialty processing applications. Jensen-Sounders' territory includes the states...

APC reports plastic resin production and sales down. (Industry News).
February 1, 2002... The American Plastics Council (APC), Arlington, VA, has released plastic resin statistics for September and October 2001. Reportedly, production of plastic resin totaled 5.7 billion pounds in September 2001, a decrease of 4.6% over the same...

BCF conference 2001 attracts 100 participants.
February 1, 2002... A total of 100 attendees gathered in September at the Lakeside Hotel, on Lake Windermere, for the annual British Coatings Foundation (BCF) conference and business meetings. The first day, September 20, was chaired by President Peter Rieck,...

Louisville and CDIC societies for coatings technology to Host Spectrum of Coatings Symposium.
February 1, 2002... Scheduled for April 24, 2002 at Galt House Hotel, Louisville, KY, the LSCT/CDIC Symposium, "Spectrum of Coatings," features 12 speakers covering areas ranging from organic pigments, additives and stabilizers, new developments in resins for...

Coatings education.
February 1, 2002... Fulfilling the mission of providing technical education and professional development to the coatings industry, the TSCT and its Constituent Societies maintain a wide range of educational activities. Presented here is a compilation of courses,...

2002 JCT educational guide to coatings courses, symposia, and seminars: American Chemical Society.
February 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION TO POLYMERIC ADHESIVES AND COMPOSITES--October 6-11, 2002, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA This lecture, laboratory (hands-on) course is designed for chemists, materials scientists, plastics engineers, and...

Interdiffusion and crosslinking in thermoset latex films: The 2001 Mattiello memorial lecture. (Technical Articles).
February 1, 2002... Mitchell A. Winnik (*) Thermoset latex systems represent an attractive approach to obtaining the high performance needed in many different kinds of industrial coatings, while satisfying the growing requirement for environmental...

Life Cycle Environmental Assessment of paint processes.
February 1, 2002... Joseph Claya (+) Raymond Gunther (+) General Motors (*) The environmental impact of three different automotive paint scenarios: (a) solventborne primer-waterborne basecoat-solventborne clearcoat, (b) powder primer-waterborne...

Scratch resistance behavior of automotive plastic coatings.
February 1, 2002... Visteon Corporation (*) The sensitivity of automotive coatings, particularly coatings for plastics, to scratching has been a growing concern among automakers. Scratching may result from such predelivery events as polishing of minor defects...

Waterborne Polymers for use in Thermoset Coatings: A new Hydrolysis Resistant Monomer as a replacement for Acetoacetoxyethyl Methacrylate.
February 1, 2002... S.C. Johnson Polymer (*) In an effort to obtain waterborne polymers which would yield ambient temperature cured films, we synthesized several acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate containing copolymers. While cured films could be obtained if the...

Draiswerke, Inc.: Drais Advantis[R] Perl Mill. (Product Overview-Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... Available from Draiswerke, Inc., Mahwah, NJ, the Advantis[R] Perl Mill maximizes both motor power per mill volume and product flow rate per mill volume. The mill's cooling ability and media recirculation method make the Advantis applicable in...

Premier Mills: Premier QMAX Supermill. (Product Overview-Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... The new Premier QMAX Supermill has been developed by Premier Mills, Reading, PA. Features include high energy "Generation 2" AP discs; a large surface area discharge screen for product/media separation; ability to grind media as small as 0.1 mm...

Kady International: Top Entry Dispersion Mills. (Product Overview-Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... Top entry, high speed rotor-stator mills are available from Kady International, Scarbor-ough, ME. Designed for fine dispersions and emulsions, a swing lock lever allows the milling head to swing in a 360[degrees] radius for changes between...

Grieve Corporation: Two-Zone Conveyor Oven. (Product Overview-Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... Grieve Corp., Palatine, IL, has introduced their No. 810, a 500[degrees]F gas-heated, two-zone belt conveyor oven. Work-space dimensions measure 42 in. wide by 24 ft. deep by 15 in. high. Workloads travel atop a high carbon steel flat wire...

CB Mills: ECM Poly Mill. (Product Overview-Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... The all new model ECM Poly is a high production eight-liter mill with a unique accelerator and screen design. Higher flow rates provide more passes, resulting in a finer grind and narrower particle size distribution of the final product. The...

MM Industries, Vorti-Siv Division: Self-Cleaning Filtration Systems. (Product Overview-Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... The Vorti-Siv Division of MM Industries, Salem, OH, is offering a full range of self-cleaning inline filtration equipment. Standard features include a cleaning spiral, automated waste dump valve and control package, along with a pressure...

Durex Industries: Cast Barrel Heaters. (Product Overview--Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... Durex Industries, Cary, IL, has released a line of cast-in heaters for plastics extrusion equipment. The heaters, which also feature liquid or air cooling options, are primarily used as a high performance heating and cooling source for plastics...

Hockmeyer: Immersion Mill. (Product Overview--Production Equipment).
February 1, 2002... Hockmeyer, Harrison, NJ, has introduced its HSD immersion mill into its Multiplex Testing System. The availability of several style pumper blades and inclusion in the system has reportedly extended viscosity ranges of the mill over 50,000...

Birmingham-November: "History and Evolution of Pigments". (Society Reports).
February 1, 2002... President Phil Whiteley, of Holiday Dispersions, presented a 25-Year Pin to Malcolm Baker, of Clariant U.K. Ltd. Adrian Abel, of Holiday Dispersions Ltd., spoke on "THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF PIGMENTS." Mr. Abel presented a...

Golden Gate-November. "Mixed Mineral Thixotropes". (Society Reports).
February 1, 2002... President Philip Avery, Seegott, Inc., presented 25-Year Pins to Robert D. Athey, of Athey Technologies, and to Timothy G. Specht, of Sienna Performance Coatings. A Past-President's Pin was also awarded to Robert Athey in recognition of his...

Humbug from Hillman.
February 1, 2002... Herb Hillman File Clearing Day! Let's start with Mary Schnall. According to Mary's communication, "There are recent rumors that Julie Andrews did a concert for CARP (whatever that is). Ms. Andrews sang a favorite from the Sound of Music--...