The Journal of Coatings Technology articles from October 2001

The Journal of Coatings Technology archives from October 2001

The Face of the Enemy.
October 1, 2001... The FSCT is extremely saddened by the tragedy that occurred in New York City, Washington, DC, and Western Pennsylvania. Our prayers and hearts go out to the families, friends and colleagues of those who have perished in this outrageous act of...

Measuring Adhesion to Poly (Olefins): The Role of Adhesion Promoter and Substrate.
October 1, 2001... Measuring Adhesion to Poly (Olefins): The Role of Adhesion Promoter and Substrate--R.A. Ryntz etal Vol. 73, No, 921, 107 (Oct. 2001) The use of thermoplastic poly (olefins) in the automotive industry continues to proliferate due to...

Cycloaliphatic Epoxide Crosslin kable Core-Shell Latexes: A New Strategy for Waterborne Epoxide Coatings.
October 1, 2001... Cycloaliphatic Epoxide Crosslin kable Core-Shell Latexes: A New Strategy for Waterborne Epoxide Coatings-M.D.Soucek, G. Teng, S. Wu Vol. 73, No, 921, 117 (Oct. 2001) New core-shell acrylic latexes designed for crosslinking with...

Sheet Coating by Drawdown of Extruded Polymer.
October 1, 2001... Sheet Coating by Drawdown of Extruded Polymer - F. Ding, A. J. Giacomin, and J.C. Slattery Vol. 73, No. 921, 127 (Oct. 2001) An approximate analytic solution for coating a highly viscous Newtonian fluid onto a substrate is developed...

Meeting the Challenge of Radical Change: Coatings R&D as We Enter the 21st Century.
October 1, 2001... Meeting the Challenge of Radical Change: Coatings R&D as We Enter the 21st Century -- G.R. Pilcher Vol. 73, No. 921, 135 (Oct. 2001) The coating industry has only occasionally been presented with the challenges and opportunities which...

Medicion de la Adhesion de Poli(olefinas): El Papel del Promotor de Adhesion y el Substroto.
October 1, 2001... Medicion de la Adhesion de Poli(olefinas): El Papel del Promotor de Adhesion y el Substroto--R.A. Ryntz et al. VoL 73, No. 921, 107 [Oct. 2001] El uso de poli(olefinas) termoplasticas en la industria automatriz continua proliferando...

Latex de Concha-Centro Entrecruzable de Epoxico Cicloalifatico: Una Nueva Estrategia para Recubrimientos Epoxicos Base Agua.
October 1, 2001... Latex de Concha-Centro Entrecruzable de Epoxico Cicloalifatico: Una Nueva Estrategia para Recubrimientos Epoxicos Base Agua--M.D. Soucek, G. Teng y S. Wu Vol. 73, Na. 921, 117 (Oct. 2001) Fueran preparados nuevas latex acrilicos de...

Recubrimiento en Hoja Mediante Prueba de Profundidad de un Polimero Extruido.
October 1, 2001... Recubrimiento en Hoja Mediante Prueba de Profundidad de un Polimero Extruido--F. Ding, A.J. Giacomin y J.C. Slattery Vol. 73, Na. 921, 127 (Oct. 2001) So ha dosarrollado una solucion analitica aproximada para recubrir un fluido...

Enfrentando el Reto de un Cambio Radical: Investigacion y Desarrollo en Recubrimientos, la llave de Entrada al Siglo XXI.
October 1, 2001... Enfrentando el Reto de un Cambio Radical: Investigacion y Desarrollo en Recubrimientos, la llave de Entrada al Siglo XXI--G.R. Pitcher Vol. 73, No. 921, 135 (Oct. 2001) La industria de los recubrimientos ocacionalmente se ha encontrado...

FSCT's Virtual Learning Conferences: A Proven Success.
October 1, 2001... The date was September 14, 2000. Sixty people gathered around conference rooms and computer monitors in over 20 different locations anxiously awaiting what marked the beginning of a new era in educational programs for coatings technology. This...

DOT Seeks Comments On Hazmat Preemption.
October 1, 2001... The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is seeking public comment on Smithtown, New York's application for a determination on whether federal hazardous materials regulations preempt certain sections of the town code. The notice was...

DOT Considers Additional Hazmat Carrier Guidance.
October 1, 2001... The Department of Transportation is considering developing additional guidance on a section of federal hazardous materials law to clarify when the department believes hazmat carriers have knowingly violated the law, the agency is expected to...

EPA Updates Lists of Chemicals Subject to Reporting Requirements.
October 1, 2001... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on its web site July 20 updated lists of chemicals subject to reporting requirements, including seven chemicals subject to Toxics Release Inventory reporting for the first time. ...

EPA is Proposing Connecticut SIP for New York, New Jersey.
October 1, 2001... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions that relate to attainment of the one-hour ozone standard in the Connecticut portion of the New York-New Jersey-Long Island area. In...

House Introduces Internet Fairness Tax.
October 1, 2001... Legislation introduced on July 17 would permanently ban Internet access taxes and amend existing federal rules that allow state and local governments to tax interstate business activity to account for electronic commerce. The bill,...

Reauthorization of the Export Administration Act (EAA).
October 1, 2001... On August 1, 2001, the House International Relations Committee passed legislation (HR 2581) 26 to 7 to renew the Export Administration Act (EAA). The bill is widely viewed as strengthening U.S. export controls and delegating greater authority...

Lawsuit Challenging TSCA Standards for Paint, Dust and Soil Will Proceed.
October 1, 2001... A federal court set a briefing schedule July 3 that will allow a lawsuit challenging health standards for lead in soil and household dust to proceed (National Multi Housing Council v. EPA, D.C. Cir. No. 01-1159, briefing schedule set 07/...

Rhode Island Judge Questions Responsibility in Lead Lawsuit.
October 1, 2001... Rhode Island Attorney General, Sheldon Whitehouse's unique lawsuit against several paint companies took a knock earlier this month when Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein failed to rule on issues said to be critical to the state's legal...

Montreal Protocol Working Group Focuses on Illegal Trade in Ozone-Depleting Chemicals.
October 1, 2001... Despite progress on technical issues, a working group of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone indicated that no major changes are expected when the parties formally meet in October. The Montreal Protocol on Substances...

Mexican Environment Secretary Wants to Make Public Registry of Pollutants.
October 1, 2001... Mexican Environment Secretary Victor Lichtinger's recently announced he will send Congress a proposal to make obligatory and public the "Registro de Emisiones y Transferencia de Contaminantes" (Registry of Pollutant Emissions and Transfer). ...

U.S. Automotive Coatings, Sealants, and Adhesives Demand to Reach $6.8 Billion in 2005.
October 1, 2001... The Freedonia Group, Inc., Cleveland, OH, has released a new study entitled, "Automotive Coatings, Sealants, and Adhesives," in which they forecast that the demand for automotive coatings, sealants, and adhesives in the United States will rise...

Degussa Receives OSHA Award.
October 1, 2001... Out of 6.3 million work sites in the U.S., only 450 have ever received the Star Award for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Washington, D.C. Degussa Corp., Parsippany, NJ, has earned the Star at its Aerosil (r) fumed...

Atlas Weathering First to Receive Accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025.
October 1, 2001... As part of a commitment to provide the best products and services to its customers, Atlas Weathering Services Group, Miami, FL, is the first weathering organization to receive accreditation to ISO/ IEC 17025, General Requirements for the...

Avian Group Receives NIST Contract.
October 1, 2001... Avian Group USA, Wilmington, DE, has recently received a multi-phase contract to design and develop new reference instruments for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. Avian Group will redesign and...

Price Increase.
October 1, 2001... Eastman Chemical Company Kingsport, TN PRODUCT: Ethanol INCREASE: $0.10 per gallon in North America EFFECTIVE: July 1, 2001

Measuring Adhesion to Poly(olefins): The Role of Adhesion Promoter and Substrate.
October 1, 2001... Dennis M. Mihora [+] Dottie Britz [*] Russ Pierce [**] The use of thermoplastic poly(olefins) in the automotive industry continues to proliferate due to their decreased cost and weight and increased recyclability in comparison to...

Cycloaliphatic Epoxide Crosslink able Core-Shell Latexes: A New Strategy for Waterborne Epoxide Coatings.
October 1, 2001... Mark D. Soucek [+] Shaobing Wu -- North Dakota State University [*] New core-shell acrylic latexes designed for crosslinking with cycloaliphatic diepoxides were prepared. The core consisted of methyl methacrylate (MMA), butyl acrylate...

Sheet Coating by Drawdown Of Extruded Polymer.
October 1, 2001... A. Jeffrey Giacomin [+] - University of Wisconsin [*] John C. Slattery - Taxas A&M University [**] An approximate analytic solution for coating a highly viscous Newtonian fluid onto a substrate is developed (low Poiseuille number and...

MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF RADICAL CHANGE: Coatings R&D as We Enter the 21st Century.
October 1, 2001... G.R. Pilcher - Akzo Nobel Coatings Inc. [*] The coating industry has only occasionally been presented with the challenges and opportunities which either bring about, or proceed from, radical change--the advent of latex house paints, powder...

PIGMENT DISPERSION: I.
October 1, 2001... Pigments are manufactured with the particle size distribution that gives the best compromise of properties, but the particles often become cemented together into aggregates during processing. Breaking these aggregates and forming stable...

People in the News.
October 1, 2001... Jack Martin has been appointed President of Atlas Weathering Services Group, Miami, FL. He has 18 years experience in the field of weathering. Mr. Martin replaces Larry Masters, who is now the President and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas...

Obituaries.
October 1, 2001... Hollie Conover, a member of the Arizona Society for Coatings Technology, (ASCI), passed away on July 28, 2001. Mr. Conover received his B.A. degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from Hanover College in Hanover, IN. In 1966 he began his career at...

Market Analysis.
October 1, 2001... The "U.S. Paint & Coatings Market Analysis (2000-2005)" has been published by The National Paint and Coatings Association. New features include radiation cured coatings, small business concerns, e-commerce, recent consolidations, and general...

Radiation Curing.
October 1, 2001... Rapra Technology Ltd. has released its Rapra Review Report 136 entitled "Radiation Curing." Authored by R.S. Davidson, the report provides an introduction to the technologies, equipment, and materials that make up radiation curing. The report...

Surface Preparation.
October 1, 2001... The Society for Protective Coatings has published two new collections of surface preparation reference photographs: SSPC-VIS 4 and SSPC-VIS 5. The SSPC-VIS 4 illustrates the appearance of steel surfaces prepared by waterjetting, whereas the...

MIC Reference.
October 1, 2001... NACE International, the Corrosion Society has released a second volume of its MIC book, A Practical Manual on Micro-biologically Influenced Corrosion. This volume provides new material and current developments with an international influence....

Polymer Systems.
October 1, 2001... Interfaces, Adhesion and Processing in Polymer Systems is a new volume published by the Materials Research Society (MRS). The volume contains symposium reports from the 2000 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA, and contains 29 papers in...

LIA Handbook.
October 1, 2001... The Laser Institute of America (LIA) has released the LIA Handbook of Laser Materials Processing. The handbook is a large format comprehensive reference work on virtually all processes, including rapid prototyping. It contains several hundred...

Tubing Pumps.
October 1, 2001... Easy-Load[R] pumps from Barnant are designed for inks, adhesives, and coatings. They have no wetted parts and operate on the progressive cavitation principle of a roller assembly dosing fixed amounts of media through the tubing. Tubing is...

In-line Screeners.
October 1, 2001... New literature on pressurized pneumatisifter in-line screeners for dilute-phase pneumatic conveying systems is available from Kason Corp. The screeners are reported to eliminate the need for additional blowers, cyclone separators, and rotary...

Adhesion Promoters.
October 1, 2001... Chartwell Intemational, Inc. has released its mercapto and amino functional solid adhesion promoters for epoxy and urethane powder coatings, which offer a two-fold increase in active matter. The two new grades, Chartsil B-505.1/2H (mercapto)...

Chemical Thickeners.
October 1, 2001... Plasticolors, Inc. has introduced a new product line of chemical thickeners for the polyester composites industry. The new technology, Accumag[TM], is designed to combine consistently reactive magnesium oxides with an innovative QC testing...

Industrial Talc.
October 1, 2001... Industrial talc is now available from R.T. Vanderbilt Co. This product is a natural mineral blend that contains a substantial proportion of other silicates in addition to talc. The new blend is designed to provide a variety of particle sizes...

Polyurea Coating.
October 1, 2001... Specialty Products Inc. has produced the AMP-100, an elastomeric polyurea coating designed to protect wood enclosures. It is a spray-applied, plural component polyurea developed with a synergy of aliphatic and aromatic polymer chemistry....

Environmental Coatings.
October 1, 2001... Enviroline[R] 231 is an 80% solids, 20 mil epoxy coating that has been unveiled by the Industrial Environmental Coatings Corp. It may be applied in one or three coats, and is designed to provide long-term corrosion protection in tanks, pipes,...

Coatings Removal.
October 1, 2001... Sawtec has introduced the Sawtec[TM] MegaChipper designed to peel up coatings when grinding and blasting are ineffective. It is particularly suited to the removal of high-build coatings and reportedly removes elastomeric and deck coatings, tile...

Paint Overspray Collectors.
October 1, 2001... Columbus Industries has introduced the Supra V, EPG, and EPG II paint overspray collectors. This product line incorporates a back ply with a special absorbent content designed to eliminate particulate/ liquid solvent penetration while allowing...

Particle Analyzer.
October 1, 2001... The LS[TM] 13 320 Laser Diffraction Particle Analyzer has been introduced by Beckman Coulter, Inc. The instrument meets the new ISO standards for particle sizing. For pharmaceutical applications, it is also CFR Part 11 compliant. It features a...

Measuring Probe.
October 1, 2001... The Fischerscope[TM] MMS with sigma module and ESD1 probe from Fischer Technology is a measuring tool for nickel finishes used in automotive and appliance applications. The probe measures the nickel layer directly through the chrome layer using...

Particle Size Analyzer.
October 1, 2001... Horiba Instruments Inc. has announced the Camsizer Digital Camera Particle Size Analyzer to measure free flowing powders in the range of 30 [micro]m to 30 mm.

Humbug from Hillman.
October 1, 2001... This issue is dedicated to thinning out my well loaded Kiefer and Schnall files. Besides, it's all to YOUR benefit! And so--we turn to Dick Kiefer: A young man asked an old man how he made all his money. The old guy fingered his wool...