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Good Thickness Vibrations
Conventional coating thickness tests are time-consuming, difficult to perform, and are subject to operator interpretation and other measurement errors. Applicators find destructive methods impractical. To get a statistically representative sample, several wood or plastic products from a lot might need to be scrapped as part of the destructive testing process. With the arrival of advanced ultrasonic instruments, many finishers have switched to nondestructive inspection using this accurate measurement technique....
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In This Issue:

Product of the Week:  High-Speed Coating Robot 
Extrusion Coating Technology Chosen for Solar Panels 
Raymor Buys SE Techno Plus 
Ecology Coatings Awarded Fifth Patent
ACCESSA Coatings to Distribute Dust Control Products 
Sherwin-Williams Acquires Becker Powder Coatings 
Chrome-Free Coating System Achieves AMS Certification 
Reflective Green Pigments Reduce Energy Costs 
Lightweight HVLP Spray Gun Optimizes Primer Application 
Gas-Fired Batch Ovens Cure Ceramic Coatings Efficiently 
Manual Powder Spray System Enhances Coating Control 
Filtration System Improves Atomizing Air Quality 
Dry Ice Systems Provide Safe, Economical Blast Cleaning 
NCCA to Host Annual Meeting in April 
Aluminum Coatings Conference to be Held in June 
FT Online: Good Thickness Vibrations 
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PRODUCT OF THE WEEK

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FANUC Robotics’ P-250iA/15 Coating Robot
FANUC Robotics’ P-250iA/15 robot is a reliable and precise solution for coating consumer and automotive products, including plastic, metal and fiberglass parts. The six-axis, high-speed P-250i A/15 features a hollow wrist design and ‘best in class’ work envelope, offering flexibility and easy system integration for a wide range of paint process equipment. Floor and invert mounting, a slim arm and wrist, and multiple hose routing options allows the robot to access unusual or hard-to-reach parts, even in small workspaces.

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FINISHING BUZZ

Raymor Buys SE Techno Plus
Raymor Aerospace Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Raymor Industries Inc., has purchased SE Techno Plus Inc., a company specializing in the manufacturing, repair and precision grinding with super finishing of industrial and aerospace components.
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Ecology Coatings Awarded Fifth Patent
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Ecology Coatings, Inc. with a patent for "Environmentally Friendly Coating Compositions for Coating Composites, Coated Composites Therefrom, and Methods, Processes and Assemblages for Coating Thereof."
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ACCESSA Coatings to Distribute Dust Control Products
Delta Foremost Chemical Corp. has entered into an agreement with ACCESSA Coatings Solutions in which ACCESSA will serve as the sales and distribution partner of Delta Foremost’s Dust Command line.
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Sherwin Williams Acquires Becker Powder Coatings
The Sherwin-Williams Co. has acquired Becker Powder Coatings Inc. in North America, a subsidiary of AB Wilh. Becker based in Sweden. Simultaneously, AB Wilh. Becker has acquired the North American coil coatings business of Sherwin-Williams and related assets.
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FINISHING INNOVATIONS

Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings now has two complete coating systems — including pretreatment, corrosion protective primer and topcoat — certified with SAE International's Aerospace Material Specification 3095 (AMS 3095) for Airline Exterior Systems. One of the certified systems is a high-solids chrome-free epoxy primer/surfacer — reportedly one of the first chrome-free systems to achieve AMS certification.
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Reflective Green Pigments Reduce Energy Costs
Dynamix™ Green 30C612 and Dynamix Green 30C678 "stir-in" inorganic color pigments from The Shepherd Color Co. are part of the Arctic^® range for coatings and can be used widely in color matches to maximize total solar reflectance (TSR), minimize heat buildup and reduce overall energy costs.
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Lightweight HVLP Spray Gun Optimizes Primer Application
The Slim HVLP spray gun from Walmec North America was developed for primers and primer surfaces. This gun is ergonomically designed and lightweight, offers 80% transfer efficiency, and has a low air consumption rate of 6.6 cfm.
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Gas-Fired Batch Ovens Cure Ceramic Coatings Efficiently
Wisconsin Oven recently designed and manufactured three gas-fired batch ovens to cure ceramic coatings on assorted parts for the aerospace industry. Each oven has combination airflow, work chamber dimensions of 6’0" wide x 7’0" long x 8’0" high, and 650°F maximum operating temperature. Using three batch ovens instead of a larger continuous oven helps the plant keep up with their growing production demands.
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Manual Powder Spray System Enhances Coating Control
The new Encore manual powder spray system from the Industrial Coating Systems division of Nordson Corp. features a plug-and-play design for ease of use and greater productivity. It includes a lightweight gun with On-Gun controls and display, an efficient pump, and simple yet flexible controls with digital closed-loop flow control.
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Filtration System Improves Atomizing Air Quality
The Solution from Martech Services Co. cleans, dries and heats the atomizing air from an existing compressed air source to allow the air to meet spray paint requirements.
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Dry Ice Systems Provide Safe, Economical Blast Cleaning
The new Aero Series dry ice blast cleaning systems from Cold Jet, LLC, are designed to provide economical dry ice cleaning in an environmentally friendly format. The new models include the electric-pneumatic Aero 40, Aero 80, Aero 80-DX and Aero 80-HP, and the pneumatic-powered Aero C100, which reportedly cleans twice as fast as other pneumatic systems on the market.
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FINISHING AGENDA

NCCA to Host Annual Meeting in April
The National Coil Coating Association (NCCA) has selected the natural beauty of Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, AZ’s Santa Catalina Mountains for its spring, 2008 annual meeting, "Green: The New Color of Business," to be held April 12-15.
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Aluminum Coatings Conference to be Held in June
"Aluminum Coatings - XXI Century" will be held June 15-18 in the hotel Slovenia in Portorose, Slovenia. The conference will address the market for aluminum products surface finishing, corrosion behavior of aluminum alloys in various structures and environment, advanced technologies for protection with coatings, surface pretreatment of aluminum alloy products for coating, hard anodizing – meeting modern challenges of application and protection, and other related topics.
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