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Better Waterborne
In 2000, Black Brothers, a state-of-the-art equipment manufacturer, switched from solvent-based to waterborne coatings, primarily for workplace health and safety. Unfortunately, the initial waterborne coating used was deficient in both appearance quality and production efficiency. It was prone to runs and sags, which required excessive painting time to avoid or correct. Equally if not more important was a highly inconsistent dry time, which might vary by as much as six hours. A several-hour delay in assembling a finished machine or in putting on all of the required decals and labels placed product delivery schedules at great risk. In 2005, the company turned to a different waterborne coating that offered both a high-quality finish and drying time consistency…MORE

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“Our facility is in Houston. I understand that “fish eyes” are usually caused by oil, grease, and other contaminants that are incompatible with the coating, but it appears that humidity also can cause these crater-like defects to occur. We store our powder at temperatures below 74ºF. In discussions with some powder suppliers about product shelf life and storage, there seems to be a general consensus that if a powder sprays, it is okay even if it is beyond the 12-month “shelf life.” Since powder is hygroscopic and it is not stored in airtight, sealed boxes, is the humidity likely to contribute to coating issues, particularly in older, stored coatings?”

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IN THIS ISSUE:

New UV Primer Speeds Touch-Up
Toyota Approves Waterborne Repair Products
DaimlerChrysler Approves Waterborne Refinish System
Wagner Systems Joins Wagner Industrial Solutions Group
Xiom and New Bedford Coatings Establish Joint Venture
Ecology Coatings Nears Public Status
Dow to Showcase Hyperlast Products at Brazil Offshore 2007
Akzo Nobel to Acquire Chemcraft Holdings
Valspar Recognized as John Deere “Supplier of the Year”
Morales Appointed Sales Manager for Rohm and Haas Powder Coatings
DuPont Commercializes Anti-Reflective Coatings for LCDs
Grace Darex Launches Food Can Coatings
Columbus Industries Offers Protective Floor Coverings
Dalton  Debuts Even-Heating Cartridge Heater
KMS Introduces 10” Ultrafiltration Module
Graco Develops Electric Piston Pumps
Coatings for Plastics to Address Latest Finishing Technologies
IHEA Combustion Seminar Scheduled for November
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New UV Primer Speeds Touch-Up
BASF’s new VP-126 Power-Fill ultraviolet (UV) primer, which was originally developed for use in automotive refinishing, is now being used for fixing isolated defects in the automotive OEM coating process. With this new primer, an auto body with a tiny mar can be touched up precisely at the site of the flaw rather than having to go back through the entire coating process, resulting in time and cost savings.
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Toyota Approves Waterborne Repair Products
After extensive testing, Toyota Motor Corp. Japan has approved Akzo Nobel’s waterborne repair products — Sikkens Autowave basecoat and Sikkens Autoclear WB. Akzo Nobel has been working with Toyota to develop environmentally acceptable vehicles and vehicle refinishing solutions.
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DaimlerChrysler Approves Waterborne Refinish System
DaimlerChrysler Motor Corp. recently approved the AWX™ waterborne refinish system from Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes for North American collision repair centers. The AWX system has undergone the extensive certification process to meet the Chrysler PF-10537 standard.
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Wagner Systems Joins Wagner Industrial Solutions Group
Wagner Systems, Inc. is now a part of Wagner Industrial Solutions Group, a worldwide provider of complete systems and components in industrial surface technology. The integration allows Wagner Industrial Solutions to offer both liquid and powder application products.
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Xiom and New Bedford Coatings Establish Joint Venture
Xiom Corp., the manufacturer of an on-site plastic powder coating spray system, has purchased a 50% ownership in a new joint venture, New Bedford Coatings LLC of New Bedford, MA. The new venture will focus on applying Xiom’s plastic protective coatings on the more than 700 sea-going fishing trawlers in the New Bedford Harbor fishing fleet, a $2 billion dollar commercial enterprise.
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Ecology Coatings Nears Public Status
Privately held Ecology Coatings, a developer of nano-engineered industrial coatings, has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with publicly held OCIS Corporation as part of an alternative public offering (APO) transaction. The merged company, to be named Ecology Coatings, is expected to trade on the OTC Bulletin Board. The management of Ecology Coatings will become the management of the surviving public entity.
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Dow to Showcase Hyperlast Products at Brazil Offshore 2007
Dow Polyurethane Systems will exhibit its Hyperlast spray and cast elastomer pipeline coating systems at Brazil Offshore 2007, to be held June 19-22 in Macae, Brazil. Dow acquired the Hyperlast polyurethane systems business from British Vita on May 2, 2007, expanding its ability to produce innovative spray and cast elastomers for the marine, engineering resin, and oil and gas pipeline industries around the globe.
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Akzo Nobel to Acquire Chemcraft Holdings
Akzo Nobel has signed an agreement to acquire Chemcraft Holdings Corp., reportedly North America’s largest privately owned manufacturer of industrial wood coatings. Established in 1976, Chemcraft operates nine manufacturing facilities across the U.S., Canada and Brazil, employing around 500 people. The company’s 2006 revenues were US$145 million.
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Valspar Recognized as John Deere “Supplier of the Year”
The Valspar Corp. has earned recognition as a Partner-level supplier for 2006 and was also named Enterprise Supplier of the Year in the John Deere Achieving Excellence program. The Partner-level status is Deere & Company's highest supplier rating.
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Rohm and Haas Powder Coatings has appointed Gabriel Morales as sales manager for the Western Region of the Americas. In his new role, Morales will be responsible for leading sales growth activities for the Western U.S., Western Canada and Northern Mexico. Morales joins Rohm and Haas most recently from H.B.Fuller’s Powder Coatings Group, where he was the area business manager in Texas and Mexico.

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DuPont has commercialized a new line of anti-reflective (AR) film coatings to significantly improve the image contrast and color quality of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). The DuPont™ Optilon™ AR coating solutions are liquid formulations that enable the manufacture of single-layer, anti-reflective films that greatly decrease surface reflections on the front of LCD displays. The films also provide abrasion resistance and reduced cost.

Grace Darex Launches Food Can Coatings
Apperta™ coatings from Grace Darex® Packaging Technologies are designed for full aperture easy-open end (FAEOE) food cans. The internal, external and score repair coatings reportedly offer numerous benefits, including optimum application versatility, excellent pack-resistant performance, superior retort properties and flexibility under mechanical deformation.
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Columbus Industries Offers Protective Floor Coverings
Protective floor coverings from Columbus Industries are designed to protect work areas from paint buildup, reduce cleanup labor and provide a cleaner work environment. The company’s newest product, Cleanguard™ High Strength, addresses industry requirements for an extremely strong, heavy-duty protective floor covering.
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Dalton Debuts Even-Heating Cartridge Heater
Watt-Flex^® Split-Sheath Cartridge Heaters from Dalton Electric Heating Co., Inc. are designed to provide maximum heat transfer, with no cool spots, for applications where an even temperature profile is critical. The heaters feature a continuous coil inserted into an Incoloy^® tube, insulated with magnesium oxide, and formed into semi-circular sections that are bent together; creating a round insertion heater.
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KMS Introduces 10” Ultrafiltration Module
Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (KMS) has launched a new 10” diameter KPAK™ ultrafiltration module for the electrocoat industry. The new design reportedly offers increased efficiencies that reduce required floor space, installation time and operating costs.
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Graco Develops Electric Piston Pumps
Graco’s new E-Flo™ Plus electric pumps for high volume paint circulating applications are designed to provide the benefits of a piston pump with the energy efficiency of an electric drive unit. The pumps feature a 5-hp inverter-duty motor for reliability, cartridge-style throat packings that reduce maintenance downtime, and Maxlife™ lowers which extends the life of the rod, cylinder and wear parts.
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Coatings for Plastics to Address Latest Finishing Technologies
The Coatings for Plastics Symposium, June 13-15 in Chicago, IL, will explore emerging trends in the coatings for plastics industry and will define the technologies that will have a significant impact on the industry’s future. Scheduled presentations include “ State-of-the Art Conductive Plastics for Use in Powder Coated Articles,” “Saving Costs by Copper Plating with Periodic Pulse Reverse Systems,” “Openair Plasma Technology Breakthrough for Painting Fascias and Latest Developments Using Openair Plasma for Nanotechnology Applications,” “Robotic UV Curing of Large or Complex 3-D Plastic Parts,” “UV Coatings Technology Delivers the Best Economic Value Statement,” “Assessing Surface Damage on Decorated Plastics; a Review of Laboratory Techniques,” and “Flexible Coatings for Difficult to Adhere to Plastic Substrates.”
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IHEA Combustion Seminar Scheduled for November
The Industrial Heating Equipment Association’s (IHEA) annual Combustion Seminar, the IHEA Fall Business Conference and the IRED Division’s one-day seminar on Infrared Heating Processes will be held November 5-7, 2007, to coincide with the Global Heat Treat Summit sponsored by Industrial Heating magazine and MTI on November 8-9.
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