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December 2014 • Vol. 19, No. 12
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ADVERTISING SECTIONSClassified Ads.......................................................48 Advertising Index .................................................49
COLUMNSInternational Coatings Scene ..............................20
Europe • Europe Shifts Priority From VOC Control to Economic Growth
Business Corner ...................................................22Change... Driving It
iPaint ....................................................................24Freedom of Information Act vs. Secrecy of Your Trade Secrets
DEPARTMENTSEditorial .................................................................6As We Go to Press .................................................8Fresh Paint ...........................................................10Patents .................................................................17Market Reports ....................................................18New Products ......................................................26Industry News ......................................................43Suppliers Corner ..................................................45People..................................................................46Meetings ..............................................................47Final Coat .............................................................50
19 Photovoltaics Heat Up
27 Powder Coatings Market
30 Sherwin-Williams Product Finishes: Beacon Products Case Study
32 Biocides Directory
34 Novel Polyurethane Coatings Obtained with Polycarbonate Diol for
Pipelines with Improved Mechanical Properties and Hydrolysis Resistance
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This month’s feature article is an in depth look at the Powder Coatings Market (page 27). Powder coating is a diverse market and can be used on everything from OEM appliances and automobiles
to coating metal patio furniture. According to Coatings World’s contributing writer and president and
managing director of The Chemark Consulting Group, Phil Phillips, the global powder coatings market is estimated to be $7.146 billion. Phillips estimates that powder comprises 6.6 percent of the global coatings market, which he values at $109.2 billion.
Other key figures from Chemark: • Thermoplastic Powders – all generics – global are $646 million in
value or 0.6 percent of the global coatings value or, 9.0 percent of the total powder global marketplace
• Thermoset Powders – all generics –global are $6.5 billion in value or
6.4 percent of the total paints and coatings space.
• Total global thermoplastic powder market space is estimated to grow at 3.4 percent/year from $646 million in 2013 to $764 million by 2018.
• Total global thermoset powder coatings market space is estimated to grow at a higher rate than that of thermoplastics (TS 5.38 percent vs. TP @ 3.4 percent AGR); TS from $6.5 billion in 2013 to $8.45 billion in 2018.
• This growth rate difference would move thermoplastic powders down in market share from 9 percent of the total global powder market space in 2013, to 8.3 percent by 2018 in share loss in five years.
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PPG Aerospace Facilities Earn Supplier Awards
Three facilities operated by PPG Industries’ aerospace business have been recognized by Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Aerospace Systems sec-tor with 2013 Platinum Source Preferred supplier awards. They are the Huntsville, Alabama, transparencies facility; Irvine, California, coatings manufacturing plant; and Kennesaw, Georgia, application sup-port center (ASC). Northrop Grumman grants the awards only to those Aerospace Systems sector suppliers that achieve distinction in product quality, on-time delivery, custom-er satisfaction, and robust, lean processes.This marks the eighth year PPG’s ASC-Atlanta in Kennesaw has received the Platinum Source Preferred supplier award. It supplies Northrop Grumman with sophisticated PPG defense coatings and sealant products to support modi-fications, development and production for naval and air force weapons systems. Recognized for the second time, PPG’s Huntsville facility designs and manufac-tures advanced transparency systems. A first-year honoree, the PPG Irvine facility supplies water-reducible primers and ure-thane, epoxy and advanced-performance topcoats. “PPG Aerospace and the employees at Huntsville, Kennesaw and Irvine are highly focused on our customers and committed both to the service and qual-ity of our products,” said David Morris, PPG Aerospace general manager and vice president for the Americas. “Earning these awards shows that we are acting on that commitment. It gives our employees very well-deserved recognition for their efforts and something they can be proud of as members of our team.”The three PPG operations were among 74 recipients of 2013 Northrop Grumman supplier awards. A longtime supplier to Northrop Grumman, PPG provides transparen-cies, coatings and sealants for several air-based programs.
Axalta Coating Systems Celebrates 50 Years of Commercial Powder CoatingsAxalta Coating Systems, a global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, celebrates 50 years of commercially produced lat-est generation powder coatings, mak-ing it one of the oldest powder coating manufacturers in the world. Axalta got its start in commercial powder coatings in 1964 with the acquisition of the Teodur brand that had been manufactured by Wagemakers Lekbrieken, a Dutch family-owned paint company founded in 1848 that sold its first architectural grade ther-mosetting powder at its site in Teodur.Axalta’s powder coatings deliver superior
coverage and transfer efficiency with both thermosetting and thermoplastic coatings manufactured under the names of Alesta, Nap-Gard and Abcite. These products have earned a reputation for corrosion resistance, durability due to superior edge coverage, thick film build, and efficiency because no primer is required, according to the company. “Axalta Coating Systems is honored to have such rich history, vast experi-ence and great success in powder coat-ings throughout these fifty years,” said Michael Cash, president, Industrial Coatings. “It keeps us motivated each day to continue the legacy by offering great products to our valued customers around the world.” CW
Index to CompaniesThis index gives the starting page for a department or feature with a sig-
nificant reference to a manufacturer of paint, coatings, adhesives and sealants Subsidiaries are indexed under their own names.
AkzoNobel ................................................................................................ 10, 27
Anvil Paint and Coatings ................................................................................. 46
Axalta ..............................................................................................8, 10, 27, 50
BASF ............................................................................................................... 10
Behr ................................................................................................................ 10
PaintSolutions ................................................................................................. 10
PPG ............................................................................................8, 10, 17, 26, 46
Quest Automotive Products............................................................................. 46
Sherwin-Williams ...................................................................................... 27, 30
Sika ................................................................................................................. 10
Valspar .................................................................................................10, 17, 27
3M .................................................................................................................. 17
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PPG Industries has finalized the acquisi-tion of Consorcio Comex, S.A. de C.V. (Comex), an architectural coatings com-pany with headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico, in a transaction valued at $2.3 billion. “We are pleased to have successfully completed this acquisition, the second-largest in our company’s history, as it adds a leading architectural coatings business in Mexico and Central America to our portfolio,” said Charles E. Bunch, PPG chairman and CEO. “We look for-ward to working with the Comex team as we integrate the business into PPG.” Comex manufactures coatings and re-lated products in Mexico and sells them in Mexico and Central America through more than 3,700 stores that are indepen-dently owned and operated by more than 700 concessionaires. Comex also sells its products through regional retailers and wholesalers, and directly to customers. The company has approximately 3,900 employees, eight manufacturing facili-ties and six distribution centers, and had sales of approximately $1 billion in 2013. Comex was founded in 1952.
Behr Marquee Wins Top Honor from The Home DepotBehr Marquee Interior Paint & Primer has won top honors in the 2014 Innovation Award selected by The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improve-ment retailer. The Home Depot’s annual Innovation Awards recognize revolution-ary new products that provide benefits to consumers and companies that exceeded expectations in sales, service and program execution. Behr Marquee Interior One Coat Color Collection includes 372 hand-picked colors featuring a paint formula that is low in VOC and GREENGUARD Gold Certified.
“We continually work with our ven-dor partners to bring the latest, most-innovative, convenient products to our
customers, while also providing value,” said Bill Hamilton, merchandising vice president, The Home Depot. “Behr Marquee Interior Paint and Primer won top honors in our Merchandising Innovation Award because of its per-formance. When using colors from the Behr Marquee Interior One Coat Color Collection, consumers can achieve spec-tacular color with just one coat.”
“We’re incredibly honored to be rec-ognized among tens of thousands of other new products this year by our es-teemed partner The Home Depot,” said Jodi Allen, chief marketing officer, Behr Process Corporation. “Guaranteed-beautiful, one-coat coverage is one of many revolutionary paint products we’re proud to continue to bring to the home improvement marketplace.”
AkzoNobel Develops Additive to Make Roads SaferAkzoNobel has launched an additive for road salt which helps to protect against frost damage and makes driving safer.
Inspired by the ability of certain animals to withstand cold and pre-vent ice forming in their bodies, Ecosel AsphaltProtection is a fully biodegrad-able additive for de-icing brine. It works by slowing the freezing process, result-ing in soft, slushy ice, rather than hard, abrasive ice. After in-depth research and development, the product is available to customers in Italy and the Netherlands.
“Adding Ecosel AsphaltProtection to normal winter road salt can reduce frost damage by around 50 percent,” explained Werner Fuhrmann, member of the AkzoNobel Executive Committee responsible for Specialty Chemicals. “Municipalities and governments will substantially benefit from the results - less need for road repairs, fewer traffic jams, lower maintenance costs and greater road safety.”
He added that by extending the
service life of roads, CO2 emissions will also fall, not only because of fewer traffic tailbacks, but also because there will be a reduced need for materials and energy for maintenance.
“The additive not only protects people and the planet, it also makes economic sense as it brings down the total cost of ownership,” continued Fuhrmann. “In addition, launching this product further highlights our strategy of sustainable innovation and represents the latest ad-dition to our growing portfolio of eco-premium products.”
By mimicking nature, AkzoNobel re-searchers were able to tackle the repeat-ed freeze-thaw cycles that affect asphalt mixtures. Water trapped inside asphalt expands by about nine percent when it freezes, breaking up the road itself. Passing traffic then further accelerates the damage.
Ecosel AsphaltProtection works by preventing the water trapped inside the asphalt pores from turning into hard ice. It encourages the formation of slushy ice, which is mechanically weaker than the asphalt and therefore substantially reduc-es the risk of damage.
Destined to be a key contributor to the Sustainability and Transportation pillars of the company’s Human Cities initiative, the new product was successfully tested in cooperation with the Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Austrian road authorities.
Axalta Renews Powder Coatings Joint Venture Partnership in ChinaAxalta Coating Systems has renewed its strategic partnership with the Huajia division of the Yongjia Group under a new name, Axalta Huajia Coatings. The reaffirmed joint venture reinforces the company’s leading position as a powder coatings manufacturer and innovator through continuously providing qual-ity powder coating solutions designed to meet the needs of local and global
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customers.Headquartered in
Huangshan, China, Axalta Huajia Coatings is committed to
building scale and focusing on localizing its powder coating solutions for Chinese customers. With six powder coating op-erations across China, Axalta Huajia Coatings has increased manufacturing capacity and product range to meet the growing demand for high quality powder coatings for its customers in China. In 2014, Axalta added new capacity at the Qingpu manufacturing center to meet the rapid growth of the China powder coat-ings market.
Mike Cash, senior vice president and president of Axalta’s global Industrial Coatings business, said, “Our China op-eration is critical to the growth of our global business. Demand for powder coatings in China is booming and Axalta Huajia Coatings is ready for the chal-lenge. Combining our global technology and local expertise, we will further en-hance our market leader position in the powder coatings industry in China.”
Axalta is focusing on adding new in-novative products to meet the growing demand for high quality powder coating solutions. The recently launched Alesta ZeroZinc, a zinc and heavy metal-free powder primer formulation is designed for customers who demand high perfor-mance and an environmentally responsi-ble solution combined with the ability to help generate operational savings due to lower equipment maintenance costs.
BASF’s XSpark Automotive Coating Gets Materialica Design + Technology Silver Award 2014BASF’s Coatings division has received the Materialica Design + Technology Silver Award 2014 in the “Surface & Technology” category for its XSpark automotive coating. The distinction was awarded during the 17th International Trade Fair for Materials Applications, Surface Technology, and Product Engineering (Materialica) in Munich, Germany. The award is granted each year by MunichExpo Veranstaltungs GmbH.
The Materialica Design + Technology
Award is an internationally recognized distinction for innovations in the area of material development and applica-tion. “We are very pleased to have been selected for the award, since it highlights our high level of competency at the in-terface between design and technology,” said Stephan Schwarte, head of Basecoat Pigments/Dispersions & Color Design Lab at BASF’s Coatings division.
The award recognizes product and technology developments from all sectors that apply engineering and design com-petence equally. Meeting this challenge successfully fulfills the high standards of BASF’s designers: “We drive innova-tions forward by using sophisticated design technologies and closely collabo-rating with the development labs to cre-ate new design ranges,” explained Mark Gutjahr, head of Design Europe at BASF’s Coatings division.
AkzoNobel Details Financial Benefits of Carbon Credits MethodologyTwo ship owners are due to be awarded a combined total of almost $500,000 when the first claims resulting from a new carbon credits methodology developed by AkzoNobel and The Gold Standard Foundation are finalized next year. The scheme allows ships to generate income in the form of carbon credits, which are earned by reducing CO2 emissions. A to-tal of 17 vessels feature in the first two claims, while 50 further vessels are ex-pected to join the scheme by the end of the year.
The landmark methodology is based on ship owners converting existing ves-sels from a biocidal antifouling system to a premium, biocide-free advanced hull coating such as Intersleek, part of AkzoNobel’s International marine coat-ings product line.
“With ship owners and operators un-der increasing pressure to drive efficien-cies and improve sustainability, the ability of carbon credits to turn energy efficiency into bottom line benefits is a timely and significant step forward,” said Trevor Solomon, Intersleek business manager at AkzoNobel’s Marine Coatings business.
“Based on the 100 eligible ships
already converted from a biocidal anti-fouling to Intersleek technology, there is an estimated $2.8 million worth of car-bon credits potentially available to ship owners and operators.”
As well as being able to sell the carbon credits, the scheme also offers ship own-ers the option of passing them on to other stakeholders, such as cargo owners, to offset their emissions. They can alterna-tively be used to voluntarily offset other sources of CO2 emissions.
“We are constantly looking for less traditional innovations and this exciting project - which offers sustainability bene-fits to customers, as well as reducing ship-ping emissions - is a perfect example of our Planet Possible approach to sustain-ability,” said Conrad Keijzer, AkzoNobel’s Executive Committee member respon-sible for Performance Coatings.
Adrian Rimmer, CEO of The Gold Standard Foundation, added: “This pio-neering initiative is designed to help in-crease the uptake of clean technologies in the international shipping industry. We are following its progress with great interest.”
PaintSolutions, llc. Acquires the Synkoloid BrandsPaintSolutions, llc, Commerce, California, a division of inksolutions, llc. Elk Grove Village, Illinois, has acquired Synkoloid patch and repair product line from The Muralo Paint Company. Muralo Paints was founded in 1894 and is headquar-tered in Bayonne, New Jersey.
PaintSolutions is a California com-pany, which makes and distributes the Muralo: Spackle products, Quick-Tred Floor & Patio Paint, Latex Fire Retardant, and Vogue Theatre Paints.
PaintSolutions will continue to manu-facture and sell the Muralo line west of the Rockies, in Canada and Mexico.
PaintSolutions will manufacture and market the Synkoloid patch and repair paste product line internationally.
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palette of colors quickly and easily.
PaintSolutions also has a permitted California plant with
array of equipment available to “toll manufacture”, various acrylic products i.e. paints, dispersions, coatings, etc.
The parent company inksolutions, llc, was founded in 2001 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Inksolutions develops, manufactures and sells raw materials to the lithograph-ic ink markets. Its main product line is: Lithographic vehicles, carbon black dis-persions, overprint varnishes, fluorescent colors and various additives, which it sells to the lithographic ink maker.
AkzoNobel Strengthens Middle East Presence with New Powder Coatings FacilityAkzoNobel has started operations at its new powder coatings plant in Dubai. The facility will significantly increase capacity for the company’s Interpon and Resicoat products.
The site is AkzoNobel’s sixth manu-facturing plant in the Middle East and its 30th producing powder coatings around the world.
“This investment will further boost AkzoNobel’s position in the Middle East and strengthen our ability to serve the fast-growing regional powder coatings mar-ket,” said Conrad Keijzer, AkzoNobel’s Executive Committee member respon-sible for Performance Coatings.
The plant will target growing regional demand for decorative powder coatings
- particularly from the architectural sec-tor - as well as functional products used in the oil and gas and construction markets.
Commenting on the start of opera-tions, Peter Tomlinson, managing direc-tor of AkzoNobel Middle East, said: “The new plant in Dubai underlines our commitment to the Middle East, where our aim is to continue to outgrow our competitors.”
AkzoNobel has been bolstering its operations in the region in recent years with a series of strategic investments. In 2013, the company acquired a 50 percent stake and management control in Sadolin Paints Oman, a manufacturer of decora-tive paints and performance coatings.
AkzoNobel is active in 15 countries in the Middle East, where the company em-ploys more than 800 people.
Valspar Acquires Madison Chemical IndustriesThe Valspar Corporation has announced that it has completed the purchase of Madison Chemical Industries, Inc., a coatings manufacturer headquartered in Ontario, Canada. Madison was founded in 1975 and has developed a global repu-tation for its technically-advanced prod-ucts used for critical infrastructures such as water transmission pipelines, water and wastewater management, and po-table water storage. “We are pleased to welcome the Madison team to Valspar,” said Gary Hendrickson, Valspar’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Combining Valspar’s existing pipe coating prod-ucts, global manufacturing and technical
resources with Madison’s extensive ex-perience and qualifications in the water infrastructure market provides our cus-tomers with a broader array of proven solutions. Bringing four decades of breakthroughs and market leadership into Valspar’s technology portfolio is a big win for our customers.” Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Axalta Releases Global Automotive 2014 Color Popularity Report and Future TrendsAxalta Coating Systems has released its Global Automotive 2014 Color Popularity Report. The report, which has annually tracked regional automotive color preferences since 1953, is the most comprehensive in the industry. This year’s report offers an introduction to Color Matrix, Axalta’s automotive color fore-cast for use on future production vehicles.
“Our Color Popularity Report data not only allows us to see the colors most favored by consumers but, more impor-tantly, it enables us to forecast future trends. Every year, designers from our OEM customers depend on our advanced forecasting to make critical decisions regarding color choices for their vehicle lineup two to four years in advance,” stat-ed David Fischer, vice president of mar-keting for Axalta’s global light vehicle OEM business.
The 2014 forecast includes a wide va-riety of color types that will influence the global automotive market. The upcom-ing trends showcase four color groups:
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pale hues, bright colors, muted versions and dark shades. The matrix of colors is shown in fine or coarse metallics, solids, tintcoats, tricoats and pearlescent variet-ies. Advanced color technologies from Axalta’s global research and development teams add further to the breadth of color style combinations.
“Our global color specialists formulate the next generation of coatings colors, as we continually aspire to meet the needs of the constantly changing market,” said Nancy Lockhart, Axalta Color marketing manager. “At Axalta, we are committed to partnering with our customers to provide the best possible coatings, combining our perspective on future trends with manu-facturers’ knowledge of their customers and markets. The result we continually strive for is an ever-evolving color palette for automotive designers.” The world color data shows that white, at 29 percent, remains the most popular shade on vehicles for the fourth year in a row, while color is showing signs
of coming back with red, blue and yellow each increasing by one percent. Black, at 19 percent, is still strong overall in the market, but has dropped one percent since last year.North America
• White tops the charts at 25 percent• Red, more popular in North America
than other regions, climbed three percent in popularity
• White, silver and black declined one percent this year
• Pearlcoats are the most popular coating in the United States
• Solid white is preferred in MexicoSouth America
• A strong preference for white at 27 percent of vehicles and silver, at 25 percent, shows light colors are the most popular
• Black is third in popularity at 12 percent
• Red increased one percent this year to 11 percent overall, showing an in-crease in preference for colors
Europe• Europe has the most blue
vehicles on the road, with the main interest in light and mid shades
• Major increases in blue were seen in the compact/sport and interme-diate multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) categories
• Silver and white have continued to decline
• Green is not catching the eye of the car buyer, and it remains at only one percent popularity
Asia• There is a strong preference for
white at 30 percent, with the highest usage in South Korea at 34 percent
• Black has dropped slightly in prefer-ence, but holds second place at 19 percent
• Black is most popular on luxury ve-hicles in China at 24 percent
• Blue is more popular in Japan than in other countries in Asia.
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PPG Distributor Donates Pink Tugboat Paint to Increase Breast Cancer Awareness
For more than 130 years, Moran Towing Corporation’s fleet of tug-boats had been recognized for the signa-ture white “M” painted on their stacks. This October, company president Ted Tregurtha and a donation of PITT-TECH Plus marine paint from PPG Industries distributor Armorica Sales collaborated to adorn the well-known industry em-blem in pink on 100 tugboats to promote breast cancer awareness.
The idea for the pink M’s took root when a Moran employee asked Tregurtha for approval to paint one on a single tug-boat to honor a family member. When the company president floated the idea to other Moran ports, he said the response was so overwhelming that he autho-rized it for the company’s entire fleet of
tugboats, which are used to push barges and guide ships in waters from New Hampshire to Texas.
Armorica Sales, a longtime distribu-tor of PPG protective and marine coat-ings based in Staten Island, New York, donated the coating after owners Mike Anderson and John Tretout received an order for Pitt-Tech Plus paint in Tickled Pink from Larry Bencivenga, Moran’s port engineer. Pitt-Tech Plus paint is a 100-percent acrylic industrial enamel that provides excellent corrosion protec-tion and chemical and solvent resistance for direct-to-metal (DTM) applications.
Sika Products Found in Half of All New Cars WorldwideSika has announced that half of all the cars produced worldwide - approxi-mately 40 million vehicles per year - con-tain one of its products. One in four car windshields is adhesively bonded using Sika products. These “invisible” high
performance products are designed to help the automotive industry find practi-cal solutions to current issues in vehicle construction, such as crash resistance and lightweight design.
Sika showcased its own technologies during an event held in Switzerland for media representatives and analysts, tak-ing the latest European premium brand vehicle models as an example. Sika‘s CEO, Jan Jenisch, told the audience: “Sika cur-rently generates around 20 percent of sales in the vehicles industry. We are well placed to exploit the huge potential in the growth markets of the future, such as China, and to further extend our leading position.
“Sika‘s adhesives and processing ma-terials are helping to drive forward the megatrends in the automotive industry: electromobility, lightweight design and bonding various, very different materials. For example, carbon fibers and alumi-num can only be adhesively bonded to-gether; they cannot be welded.” CW
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U.S. 8,632,856 B23M Innovative Properties Company has been granted a patent for a method for making a coated article, which method is comprised of providing a substrate; providing microparticles of a partially or fully fluorinated polymer and pro-viding a partially fluorinated binder soluble in one or more of butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, methanol, dimethylacet-amide, dimethylformamide, dimethyl-sulfoxide, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, sulfolane or tetrahydrofuran, wherein the partially fluorinated binder is a fluorothermoplastic comprising a ter-polymer of tetrafluoroethylene, hexaflu-oropropylene, and vinylidene fluoride; applying to at least a portion of the substrate a coating comprising the mic-roparticles and a solution of the binder in a nonfluorinated solvent that dis-solves the binder and does not dissolve the microparticles, wherein prior to ap-plying the binder solution to the sub-strate the microparticles are dispersed in the binder solution, or after applying the binder solution to the substrate the microparticles are sprinkled or other-wise deposited on the applied binder; and heating the coating sufficiently to bond the microparticles to the binder but not so much as to cause the reced-ing water contact angle for the coating to fall below 80°, wherein the coat-ing comprises 70 to 95 weight percent microparticles based on a total weight of the microparticles plus the partially fluorinated binder.
Valspar Patents Bisphenol A And Aromatic Glycidyl Ether-Free CoatingsU.S. 8,632,857 B2Valspar Sourcing Inc. has been awarded a patent for a method of coating a metal substrate with a hardenable packaging coating system comprised of applying an under-coat composition to a metal substrate, the under-coat composition
contains a polyester (co)polymer, and a phenolic cross-linker; applying an over-coat composition to the under-coated metal substrate, the over-coat composi-tion is comprised of a PVC organosol containing a poly(vinyl chloride) (co)polymer dispersed in a substantially nonaqueous over-coat carrier liquid, wherein the over-coat composition in-cludes finely divided poly(vinyl chlo-ride) co(polymer) particles that exhibit a volume average particle diameter from approximately 0.5 to 30 micrometers; and curing the under-coat and over-coat compositions in combined or separate cure steps to provide a hardened film on the metal substrate that includes the under-coat and over-coat composi-tions, wherein the under-coat composi-tion can optionally be at least partially cured prior to application of the over-coat composition; wherein the under-coat and over-coat compositions are substantially free of mobile BPA, BPF, BADGE and BFDGE.
GM Global Technology Operations Patents Self-Repairing PolymerU.S. 8,633,293 B2GM Global Technology Operations has been granted a patent for a polymer com-prised of a reaction product of an epoxy resin; a first crosslinking agent reactive with the epoxy resin and having a first molecular weight; and a second crosslink-ing agent reactive with the epoxy resin, wherein the second crosslinking agent is an amine having a polyether backbone, at least one amino group attached to the polyether backbone, and a second mo-lecular weight of at least 2.5 times greater than the first molecular weight; wherein the polymer has a first phase having a first glass transition temperature at which the polymer is transformable between a first shape and a second shape; wherein the second crosslinking agent is crystalliz-able within the polymer and thereby has
a melting temperature that is detectable within the polymer; wherein the polyether backbone includes ethylene oxide and propylene oxide.
PPG Patents Coating For Decorative Metals With Improved Mar And Scratch Resistance And Methods Of ApplicationU.S. 8,632,895 B2PPG has obtained a patent for a coated article comprised of a decorative metal substrate having a specular gloss greater than 400, with the proviso that the deco-rative metal substrate does not contain a pigmented coating thereon, a transparent cured coating thereon applied directly to the decorative metal substrate containing a resinous binder, 0.5 to 10 percent by weight based on total solids weight of the coating of a surface active agent and inor-ganic particles in which the concentration of particles in the exposed surface region of the cured coating is greater than the bulk region of the cured coating.
3M Patents Aqueous Coating Composition U.S. 8,633,263 B23M has received a patent for a composi-tion comprised of an aqueous continuous liquid phase; and core-shell particles dis-persed in the aqueous continuous liquid phase, each core-shell particle comprising a polymer core surrounded by a shell con-sisting essentially of nonporous spherical silica particles disposed on the polymer core, wherein the polymer core comprises at least one polymer, wherein a weight ratio of a total amount of the nonporous spherical silica particles in the composi-tion to a total amount of the at least one polymer in the composition is in a range of from 85:15 to 95:5, wherein the non-porous spherical silica particles have a volume average particle diameter of 60 nanometers or less, and wherein the com-position has a pH value of less than 5. CW
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IRL has launched a new edition of its regional title “A Profile of the Central European Paint Industry.” This fully up-dated report provides market data for 2013 and forecasts for 2018, and gives an overview of the paint industry trends across 14 countries in the region.
The total market for paints and coat-ings in Central Europe was over 1.3 mil-lion tons in 2013, and is forecast to rise to more than 1.5 million tons by 2018. This is equivalent to an average annual growth rate of 2.9 percent.
On a country-by-country basis, Poland is by far the largest national market, accounting for nearly 41 per-cent of total demand. Poland, as well as the medium-sized markets of Hungary and Romania, are predicted to show good growth rates underpinned by their progress in transformation to market-oriented economies, rising GDPs and living standards. The smallest mar-kets in terms of paint demand, the Balkan countries Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania, are largely sustained by imports.
Architectural and decorative coatings for consumer and professional uses ac-count for around 58 percent of the total market, although this proportion varies from country to country. This segment is predicted to evolve at a slow rate due to the slow pace of development of the con-struction industry in the region.
Growth is forecast to be highest in the industrial wood and plastic coat-ings segments. The industrial wood coatings segment in Central Europe is boosted by the development of the furniture sector in the region, support-ed by international demand. The use of plastic coatings is growing in the automotive and electronics sectors, attributable to the recent investment into these end-use industries and also the increasing usage of plastic materi-als in automobile and consumer elec-tronics manufacturing.
“A Profile of the Central European Paint Industry” gives an insight into the market changes in the past few years, as well as outlining the key trends af-fecting the decorative and industrial coatings segments for each individual country covered. The scope of the study covers Albania, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It provides 2013 market data on nine mainstream paints
and coatings segments: architectural/decorative, industrial wood coatings, protective coatings, marine coatings, automotive OEM coatings, automotive refinishes, powder coatings, general in-dustrial coatings and plastic coatings. Forecasts on these are also presented for the year 2018. The cost of the full report is €4,500.
Sections of the report, priced individu-ally, will be available to purchase online at IRL’s website: www.informationre-search.co.uk. CW
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FEATURE
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Photovoltaic Paint Heats Up
Charles W. Thurston, Contributing Writer
A variety of research companies and universities are work-ing to advance spray-on organic photovoltaics (OPV) with the aim of coating glass, curved plastics and other
materials at commercial volume in the near future. A key to several of these developments is that a manufacturing process likely will evolve using roll-to-roll or sheet-to-sheet technology in conjunction with jet spray.
Part of the funding for these advances is coming from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot program, aimed at improving solar and driving down the cost. The federal govern-ment estimates the United States can save $40 billion per year by reducing energy use in commercial buildings by 20 percent by 2020.
In early November, Scottsdale, AZ-based NanoFlex Power Corp. won a $1.35 million cooperative award from SunShot, under the “Next Generation Photovoltaics 3” program; it was the only project awarded for OPV research and development in this round of financing, NanoFlex announced. The compa-ny is conducting Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) solar cells research with the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan, which are leaders in the field of organic electronics, including organic light emitting diodes, or OLEDs, and OPV.
Under the award, the University of Michigan “will advance the practical viability of OPV by demonstrating reliable, large area and high-efficiency organic multi-junction cells based on small molecule materials systems.” The project’s goals focus on “improving the conversion efficiency of OPV cells to more than 18 percent, increasing cell lifetimes to over 20 years, and dem-onstrating ultra-rapid fabrication processes through proprietary vapor phase deposition and roll-to-roll application of package encapsulation.”
Early OPV research yielded light converting efficiency of only six or seven percent, but those levels have been nearly doubled, according to several different project announcements this year. Typically, solar glass coatings trap both external solar light and internally-generated light.
And last year, New Energy Technologies, based in Columbia, MD, moved into Phase 2 of its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to advance the development of its SolarWindow technology, capable of generating electricity on glass. Included in this stage of work is the commercialization of roll-to-roll or sheet-to-sheet man-ufacturing techniques.
In March, NREL tested a SolarWindow version that was about three square feet and was transparent. “The window per-formed 50 times better than previous versions and set the re-cord as the most efficient organic photovoltaic cell (OPV) ever tested by the NREL,” Solar Technologies indicated. NREL oper-ates the Device Performance Measurement Laboratory for such materials testing. New Energy Technologies points out that its process“ does not require expensive high-temperature or high-vacuum production methods, but rather, can be sprayed on to glass at room temperature.”
“Accomplishing these goals allows us to now advance to-wards larger area, commercial scale windows while maintaining uniform, neutral colors and scalable power,” said John Conklin, the president and CEO of New Energy Technologies.
Another team at work on PV paint is at the University of Sheffield, involving sprayed perovskite, a calcium titanium ox-ide mineral that absorbs light nearly as well as silicon. This proj-ect has achieved a reported 11 percent efficiency thus far. CW
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International Coatings Scene Europe
In the absence
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the EU, national
governments
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own measures
to control
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pollutants.
Europe Shifts Priority From VOC Control to Economic Growth
by Sean Milmo European Correspondent [email protected]
The likelihood of tighter European Union regulations on air emissions being im-posed on the European coatings and
other industries has been receding as the EU gives top priority to economic growth at a time when many of the region’s economies have once again slid into or are on the edge of recession.
Nonetheless, coatings producers face the dan-ger that in the absence of action on emissions by the EU, national governments will be taking their own additional measures to control volatile or-ganic compounds (VOCs) and other air pollutants.
A new European Commission, the Brussels-based EU executive which took over in November, has signalled that its primary con-cern is economic recovery.
“Europe needs a kick-start and the Commission is providing the jump leads,” Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the new Commission, told the European Parliament in late November.
The Parliament, which was newly elected in the summer, is also showing itself to be less green than its predecessor.
The Commission has already indicated that it may withdraw a set of proposals for stricter environmental rules put forward by its pre-decessor. These had yet to be fully debated by the European Parliament and the Council of Minister representing the governments of the EU’s 28 member states. Both bodies have to ap-prove legislation proposed by the Commission before it can be implemented.
Even if the Commission does decide to press ahead with the proposals, which are mainly centered on proposed stricter emissions targets under the existing National Emissions
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Ceiling Directive (NECD), it is now un-likely to want to bring in more rigorous limits on VOCs.
The coatings industry has already had to comply with two pieces of EU legislation controlling VOC levels. One sets VOCs limits in manufacturing premises and the other restricts the con-tent of volatile organic compounds in decorative paints.
There have been concerns in the in-dustry that the Commission might want to bring in a third piece of VOCs leg-islation controlling total emissions of volatile compounds (TVOC) and cov-ering small amounts of pollutants and their mixtures.
“The Commission now seems to be-lieve that the coatings industry has al-ready done enough to reduce emissions so that it does not want to make addi-tional requirements on the sector,” said Didier Le Roy, technical director at the European Council of Paint, Printing Ink and Artists’ Colours Industry (Cepe).
Around 75 percent of all decorative paints sold in Europe are now water-borne, while solvent-free coatings have also been making inroads in sectors like automobiles and industrial coatings.
“The modern decorative coatings in-dustry (in Europe) has made huge strides in the last 20 years to reduce emissions through its Coatings Care program,” explained Tom Bowtell, chief executive of the British Coatings Federation. “We have proved that a proactive, responsible industry can achieve real steps forward without regulation. For example, the coatings industry now uses 50 percent less solvents per tonne of production compared to 1996, and we have reduced VOC emissions from our manufacturing facilities by a similar percentage in the same period.”
However, industry representatives are worried about the trend towards indi-vidual national or regional governments bringing in their own measures, which may accelerate as the Commission eases up on new emissions regulations.
France, Germany and Belgium have already been introducing their own rules on indoor air quality. Now there is a pos-sibility that others will follow.
“Whilst understanding the concerns about air pollution in major cities, we do not believe that indoor air quality regula-tions are necessary in the UK for the coat-ings industry,” said Bowtell. “But if we do end up with regulation, it should be on a pan European basis.”
High levels of pollution in Europe’s large cities has spurred politicians, NGOs and other health and environmental campaigners to put pressure on national governments to do more to comply with existing EU emissions regulations.
Many EU members states are fail-ing to comply with EU emission tar-gets set to be achieved by 2010. These targets are now themselves well below minimum safety levels recently set by the United Nations’ World Health Organisation (WHO).
After legal action by ClientEarth, a campaigning group specializing in envi-ronmental law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which ensures that all EU law is applied in the same way among its member states, ruled in November that the UK government must comply with 2010 limits on air pollution “as soon as possible”.
Now the NGO wants to use its suc-cessful action against the UK as a plat-form for similar law suits against other non-compliant EU governments.
“The ECJ’s ruling provides a clear indication of what the law means by ‘as soon as possible’,” said Alan Andrews, a ClientEarth lawyer. “It has also clearly as-serted the responsibility of national courts to hold their governments to account. We are seeking partners across Europe who want to bring cases to protect their right to breathe clear air.”
In response to public concerns about poor air quality, particularly in cities, a growing number of countries could in-troduce tighter VOC limits, particularly through IAQ measures.
In Germany the existing IAQ regula-tions, which mainly apply to floor coat-ings and other coverings, may be extended to all coatings materials used indoors.
The French IAQ legislation requires wall and floor coatings to be labelled with details of the emission character-istics of their volatile pollutants. The
labels have to comply with a ranking system indicating the degree of hazard of the contaminants.
In Belgium, an IAQ regulation due to come into force at the beginning of next year does not require labelling of constructions products, including coat-ings. Instead, their producers or suppliers must have drawn up emission dossiers on them, giving details of TVOCs, carcino-genic substances and inclusion of chemi-cals like toluene and formaldehyde.
In Scandinavian countries such as Finland and Denmark, the coatings sector has agreed to a voluntary IAQ labelling system, which so far has been working ef-fectively enough for governments not to bring in mandatory schemes.
“One of the concerns about what is happening with indoor air quality at the moment is a patchwork of different regulations across European countries, which for many of our members who are supplying and labelling their prod-ucts for many markets in Europe, is an unnecessary and expensive burden,” said Bowtell.
A greater decree of uniformity in the application of IAQ measures may be achieved when harmonised standards for testing of VOCs from indoor construc-tion materials, including coatings, is in-troduced through the Commission in the next one to two years.
“EU member states may take advan-tage of these standards to introduce their own indoor VOC limits,” said Jorma Sateri, chairman of the Finnish Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (FiSIAQ) and a member of the working group which has been drawing up the stan-dards. “They ought to benefit coatings manufacturers because they will be able to use the results of single tests to market their products across Europe.”
However, although the test methods are being harmonized, governments and their advisors will continue to be able to make their own assessments of the results of the tests.
“It will require a lot more work at the EU level before there is harmon-ised agreement on what level of con-centrations of VOCs are acceptable,” said Le Roy. CW
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Business Corner Strategies & Analysis
Central to
transformational
change goal
should be a
sustainable
step change
in a company’s
performance and
health.
by Phil Phillips, PhD Contributing Editor [email protected]
There is always a point in organizations of all sizes to come to the realization that a radical change must take place.
This decision usually is prompted by circum-stances such as: attractive new opportunities in adjacent markets; threat of nibble competitors, depressed profitability.
Change... a transformation... has very mixed results in terms of relative success. Less than 40 percent have been “successful” while 10 percent were considered “failures.”
Problems appear to be centered in two is-sues: (1) setting an inspiring aspiration or vision for change and making it emotionally “alive” for all participants and (2) mobilizing and sup-porting the transformation “horsepower”. . . . . the stream of energy & ideas needed to force the organization forward.
Establishing the target:Accurate articulation of the target for a transfor-mational change connects and inspires people in-side and outside the company. The success of this essential first step depends on the leader’s ability to define the target at the outset then . . . .
1. Segment into clear themes and initiatives2. Draw out the picture of what it will look
like at . . . . 3. Various stages along the time line4. Then decipher into an exhilarating story
What is Aspiration?Central to transformational change goal should be a sustainable step change in a company’s performance and health. A transformational change must be nestled in a spirit that unites the dissimilar elements of the organizational change itself. Besides the basics of improving profitabil-ity, market value and ROCE, it must incorpo-rate the highlights of corporate health which, when done effectively, encourages executives to think about the organization as a system whose parts are reciprocally interdependent.
What does the architecture look like?The leaders in management must clearly outline themes whose objectives will cooperatively achieve the, on the whole, targeted goals. The objectives should then be segmented into precise initiatives, and made clear how they will be sequenced plus how they will work together. By clearly spelling out the exact goals reduces needless apprehension in the organization.
Timetable?Typically, timetables of three to five years for an overall goal of transformation can seem too distant for management and employees lost in thought by short-term pressures. At this point, the “journey” must be broken out into “bites” of time and prog-ress toward the overall transformational goal.
Articulating and visioning progressive goal achievements is desirable for two reasons:
• A midpoint goal is sufficiently close at hand to be described as highly tangible
• Contrastingly, the fact that this midpoint goal/target is just a station along the pro-gressive path, reinforces its rank as some-thing that even could be surpassed.
IdeasThere is no doubt a central need for the BIG IDEA is implicit in the transformational strategic tar-geted goal. However, the subordinated support themes that underlie the success of the BIG IDEA, must constantly being developed as a flow of fuel to the transformation process itself. The common failures center on leaders being inactive and NOT dynamic in refreshing these underpinnings.
Many times leaders are willing to be satisfied with ideas that are merely good enough, which leads to a de-energizing of the organization versus a constant “stretch” its people need.
Change must be personalTo build trust and confidence employees need role models who exemplify specific ideas in a vis-ible and meaningful way. What may initially have come across as a slogan, springs to life when dem-onstrated in person.
Your comments are welcome. CW
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IPaint Protecting the P&C Industry’s Intellectual Assets
Steve McDaniel and Jon Hurt Technology Litigators.com
Ahh, the glory of a transparent government. Everyone can find out what is being done in an open
manner when the taxpayers’ dollars are being spent. That’s a good thing, unless it involves your trade secrets.
One way this can occur is through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Any information that the government possesses that is not classified can be dis-closed upon, request by a member of the public, using FOIA. And, if the govern-ment possesses your trade secrets . . . well, FOIA can be used to force the disclosure of your trade secrets . . . even to your competitors! If you’re not careful. Let’s talk about being careful, shall we?
So, how would the government get its hands on your hard earned pro-prietary information? Typically, it is through one of two routes. The first is disclosure of the trade secret in a bid submission for, or actual work on, a government project. The second is dis-closure due to a mandatory requirement of, or request by, a regulatory agency (e.g., the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, etc.) overseeing part of your business’s conduct. Once in the hands of one government agency your information may pass to other government contractors or agencies, or in some circumstances be part of a required release to a third party, or be subpoenaed during a legal proceeding (that’s a topic for the next iPaint col-umn, how to keep your trade secrets un-der seal during court proceedings).
Before you can try to protect your proprietary/trade secret information from possible public release by the gov-ernment, you need to understand what THEY consider to be proprietary in-formation. And, naturally, the answer
is in the gray zone. Proprietary infor-mation is not defined in federal legal code, but a definition is found in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (48 CFR 27.402(b)) which relates to government contractors: “Contractors may have propri-etary interests in data. In order to prevent the compromise of these interests, agencies shall protect proprietary data from unauthorized use and disclo-sure. The protection of such data is also necessary to encour-age qualified contractors to par-ticipate in and apply innovative concepts to Government pro-grams. In light of these consid-erations, agencies shall balance the Government’s needs and the contractor’s legitimate propri-etary interests.” Well, that’s re-assuring, sort of. Truth be told, however, regulatory agencies may each have their own spin on this balance of Government’s needs vs. your vital commercial interests, so you should become familiar with how the line is draw in for each agency when you cross-paths and they seek access to your trade secrets.
To protect yourself, you need to tip the “government need” vs. your interest balance by minimalizing the amount you disclose while adding as much weight as possible to “your in-terest” in the disclosure to the Government. This can be done by a process of evaluating the conse-quences of public release for each docu-ment, particularly in the case when you are considering seeking a government contract. For this mathematical word problem, you should assume that all the information will be released to the pub-lic via a FOIA request, and calculate the damages to your business. Then decide
if the value of the potential government contract is worth the risk. If you can eat the loss, then go ahead and seek the gov-ernment as a client.
In the case of a request/demand for information by a government agency, determine what if any disclosure is ab-solutely required before coughing the info up. If you are going to proceed to disclose information to the government, try to obtain a confidentiality agree-ment with the agency prior to trans-ferring your data. Purge any data that
What the FOIA! Freedom of Information Act vs. Secrecy of Your Trade Secrets
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is unnecessary, such as personal infor-mation (i.e., social security numbers, names, addresses, etc.) as appropriate (though itself FOIA does provide an ex-emption to the disclosing agency from disclosing this type of information, let’s follow the “better safe than sorry” guidelines), and only disclose the mini-mum amount of proprietary or confi-dential information possible.
Now comes the fun part of preemp-tively trying to scare off disclosure of your commercial secrets . . . invoking one of the exemptions to FOIA and keeping your information from being released. The most relevant of these techniques is Exemption 4 to the FOIA (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4))which states “this section does not apply to matters that are … trade
secrets or commercial or financial infor-mation obtained from a person and that is privileged or confidential.” To get a leg up on having this exemption followed with your trade secret information, con-sider these rules of thumb.
Label confidential information as such per the guidelines for the agency in-volved or provide your own labeling of confidential information to distinguish
from non-confidential informa-tion (if the agency doesn’t have such guidelines). Having said that, the lack of such guidelines by the agency does not inspire confidence that the agency has its act together. So, maybe you should reconsider if the dis-closure is actually mandatory. The default labeling in such situations would be something along the lines of prominently displayed and emphasized “CONFIDENTIAL TRADE SECRET INFORMATION” “COMPANY PROPRIETARY” or “COMPANY SENSITIVE” and “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION MUST BE DELETED PRIOR TO RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC.” To really drive the message home, provide a copy with the information already redacted with a cover letter describing the non-redacted and redacted submissions, and clarifying that only the redacted submission will be used if the information is released for any reason. Also add a highly visible “request to be notified so you may make comment” in the documents if they are sought for by others. When submitting electronic files and data, consider using file
markers and screen displays to flag the information as confidential. Hopefully all this extra ink will add enough weight to tip the balance in your favor.
Generally, a federal agency makes the call as to whether the information falls under a trade secret exemption and does not have an obligation to no-tify you of a request for information
under FOIA. But, if you do receive such a notice you may try to stop the release under the Administrative Procedures Act (i.e., a reverse FOIA request). Also, be aware that when dealing with a state rather than federal agency, individual state laws apply and you should have a local counsel ready to guide you through with the govern-ing state statues. FYI, some states are far less concerned about respecting trade secrets than others.
So, when push comes to shove, how have these types of issues played out in the real world in recent years?
One near and dear to the hearts of us in the specialty chemical and coatings industries is chemical compositions of our products. In the case of the chemi-cals used in fracking oil and natural gas deposits, which various environmental groups and agencies have taken an in-terest in, the “balance” between trade secrets and public disclosure adopted by the Department of Energy was to re-port lists of raw chemicals used but not the specific products those chemicals are used in.
Another one that we in the biz may encounter is a required disclosure of internal operating procedures. In a case involving HR policies proprietary to a business operation, SeaWorld’s safety protocols came under scrutiny by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a train-er’s death. Though a preliminary rul-ing by an administrative law judge held that SeaWorld’s safety protocols were to be released, the deadline passed without release by OSHA. This was apparently due to SeaWorld maintain-ing its claim that these protocols were trade secrets, and OSHA apparently feared prosecution. Not an unfound-ed fear, since unlawful disclosure of a trade secret by a federal government employee is punishable by up to a year in prison.
The take home message: get in there early and fight hard to keep what is yours from slipping out from between Uncle Sam’s fingers. Because no one loves your trade secrets as much as you do, except maybe your competitors. CW
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PPG Industries has developed a chromate-free, lightweight sealant for corrosion-inhibitive military aircraft applications. Visitors at the National Business Aviation Association Convention and Exhibition learned about PRC PR-2870 Class B seal-ant at the PPG booth during the event in Orlando, Florida, at the Orange County Convention Center.
According to Bill Keller, PPG Aerospace global segment manager for sealants, the eco-friendly sealant uses PPG-patented technologies and is de-signed as a replacement option for PRO-SEAL 870 sealant.
“PR-2870 sealant is a new-generation, corrosion-inhibitive sealant for aero-dynamic smoothing, structural surface sealing, fay sealing and pressure fuse-lage sealing applications,” Keller said. “It weighs 30 percent less by volume than PRO-SEAL 870 sealant, has low specific gravity and is chromate-free to meet the needs of today’s aviation industry.”
Other benefits include low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and rapid cure time, he said. The new PPG sealant is qualified to U.S. Military Specification MIL-PRF-81733, often used by general aviation aircraft manufactur-ers to select products.
Keller said PR-2870 is the result of PPG’s collaboration on a project sponsored by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) to develop an eco-friendly corrosion-inhibi-tive sealant offering high performance.
PPG Launches EN-V Performance ClearcoatPPG Industries’ automotive refinish business has introduced EC530 EN-V Performance Clearcoat, an easy-to-use clearcoat with premium gloss retention over waterborne basecoat, which meets or exceeds regulatory requirements in all U.S. and Canadian regions. The new clearcoat is the latest addition to the
leading ENVIROBASE High Performance refinish system by PPG.
“EC530 is a significant expansion of the Envirobase High Performance system,” said Tim Jones, PPG waterborne segment manager. “This is an excellent, compliant clearcoat for our waterborne basecoat. It’s easy to use and works quickly to help shops improve productivity and through-put. It also consistently provides the beau-tiful finish, gloss and appearance expected of PPG products. We believe these are fea-tures collision centers and their customers will find very attractive.”
According to Jones, EC530 uses a tradi-tional two-coat application process. With four available reducers, it works across a wide spectrum of temperature and humid-ity conditions. The new clearcoat has a short bake cycle of 25 minutes or can air dry in less than four hours. It requires no polishing; however, dirt nibs can be buffed immediately after cooldown.
Olympic Brand Launches New Home Interior Paint at Lowe’s Olympic Paint and Stain announced the launch of Olympic Home interior latex paint, a new line of flat and semi-gloss paint available exclusively at Lowe’s stores nationwide.
Starting at $11.97 per gallon, the new Home paint provides professionals and DIY homeowners with a durable, easy-to-apply and clean product at a value price. With good hiding power and a smooth finish, Home paint joins the Olympic paint portfolio that con-sumers know and trust for reliability, dependability and quality, according to Nicole Jones, senior brand manag-er, Olympic Paint and Stain.
“Homeowners today are looking not only for high-quality products to beautify and update their homes, but for a paint at a great price that doesn’t compro-mise quality,” Jones said. “Professionals
and homeowners can rely on Olympic Home paint to brighten their walls with-out lightening their wallets.”
Olympic Home paint is available in more than 600 light and medium colors included in the Olympic palette, and it is backed by a 15-year limited warranty.
PPG Launches DELFLEET Evolution High-Solids Epoxy PrimersThe commercial coatings group of PPG Industries’ automotive refinish business has introduced DELFLEET Evolution F4935, F4936 and F4937 HS Epoxy Primers, a new series of high-solids, 2.1 VOC (volatile organic compound) prim-ers with excellent adhesion and corrosion resistance over many different substrates.
The new epoxy primers are identified as F4935 white, F4936 gray and F4937 black and are combined with Delfleet Evolution F4938 HS Epoxy Primer Hardener in a simple 1-to-1 mix ratio. With a VOC level of 2.1 pounds per gal-lon, the primers meet current require-ments in key regulated (compliant) U.S. markets as well as Canada.
“These are extremely versatile epoxy primers that should be very attractive to the builder market,” said J.J. Wirth, PPG brand manager, fleet segments. “We ex-pect customers to be pleased with how well these primers perform, particularly since they can be applied over a wide range of commercial surfaces including steel, galvaneal, galvanized, stainless steel, aluminum, fiber glass and OEM finishes.”
Wirth added that the new primers offer good vertical hang and film build proper-ties with application versatility. They can be topcoated directly as primer sealers or, with additional coats, easily sanded as primer surfacers, increasing productiv-ity and reducing process steps. Because the primers are available in white, gray and black, they can be used with a broad range of colors as well. CW
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Kerry Pianoforte, Editor
Powder coatings are used in a variety of applications from automotive to OEM appliances and furniture. Powder coatings are enjoying a resurgence in both mature mar-
kets such as North America and Europe as new formulations have been introduced enabling applications at lower tempera-tures which has allowed for their use on a greater variety of substrates (See Powder Coatings Shows Strong Growth in European Coatings Market, Coatings World, May 2014) and emerging markets that are beginning to enact VOC regulations.
Chemark Consulting Group estimates that the global value for all types of powder coatings is $7.146 billion.
Axalta has seen increases in powder coating consumption in the emerging markets where local governments have imple-mented newer regulations to curb VOC emissions. “Obviously, we are actively pursuing new opportunities with customers who are affected by the new environmental guidelines and therefore want to utilize powder in both existing and new facilities,” said Bill Sante, global director, marketing and business development,
Powder coating manufacturers focus on enhancing durability and ef� ciency to drive growth in this diverse market.
The Powder Coatings Market
Arctic Cat has built a reputation for high-performance sleds for aggressive trail riding and racing. It expects the quality and durability of its coatings to match
the performance of Arctic Cat equipment. They turned to Valspar for design of a coatings system for the exterior of sleds that delivers robust performance year-
after-year in extreme outdoor conditions. Valspar powder coatings provide durable, rugged protection on the undercarriage of the sled against a harsh range of
environments and chemicals. Valspar also helped Arctic Cat redesign its coating application process for maximum ef� ciency.
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powder coatings at Axalta Coating Systems. “Axalta estimates that the market for powder in 2014 will yield mid-single digit growth over 2013. We saw continued improvement in almost all of the end-use segments as many industries that use powder coatings continue to produce year-over-year growth.” VOC regulations remain a key driver for the powder coat-ings market. “Environmental regulations continue to drive change in industrial coatings formulations, particularly the requirement for solvents with lower or zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs),” said Steve Kiefer, powder coatings busi-ness director, North America, AkzoNobel. “Because powder coatings do not contain any solvents, they are by definition the most environmentally compliant and sustainable industrial finishes, and we continue to see a switch from liquid coatings to powder. As well as offering environmental benefits, powder coatings also typically have a lower applied cost as well as an improved performance profile compared to liquid coatings. Powder coatings can also substitute other processes that may involve the use of substances of concern. For example, our new Interpon Cr powder coating is a sustainable and cost-effective alternative for chrome plating.”
“Continued pressure with VOC regulations will benefit the market,” said Joe Laehu, Valspar global industrial segment di-rector. “Most environmental regulations requirements have al-ready occurred. Continued innovation with powder coatings will expand those market participation opportunities.”
“Stricter environmental regulations have most definitely benefited the powder coatings market,” said Ron McMahon, global market director, powder coatings, Sherwin-Williams Product Finishes Group. “In North America, finishers that may have reached their overall operational VOC limits using liquid coatings have found that powder is a great alternative to ensure they remain in compliance with a part of their environ-mental regulations. In global markets such as China and the remaining APAC countries and Eastern Europe – where envi-ronmental regulations are becoming more stringent – powder is being selected as the finish of choice as new lines are set up. The environmental benefits include zero to very low VOCs; reclamation and reuse of overspray; and waste that is generally considered non-hazardous.”
McMahon reported positive growth in 2014 for powder coatings. “As an industry, the rate of growth for powder glob-ally has been seven to eight percent for the market overall,” he added. “By 2018, it is expected that growth will be over eight percent.”
Asia still remains the fastest growing region. “Because the U.S. and European markets are more mature, major opportu-nities to expand the overall powder market are limited,” said Laehu. “However, with the new powder technologies being de-veloped, there will be opportunities to use powder in ways that have not been possible in the past. For example, Valspar Valde EFC is a technology that allows powder to cure faster and at lower temperatures than traditional powder solutions. This low-cure technology breakthrough makes it possible to coat large, non-uniform shapes with powder that would traditionally
be limited to liquid coatings technology. Because of this, manu-facturers will benefit from the traditional benefits of powder technology, like low-VOC formulations and durable protection, as well as more efficient operations.”
Axalta sees the emerging markets as offering the best op-portunity for growth. “More specifically, according to many economic metrics, countries in Asia, such as China, India and pockets of ASEAN, are generating impressive economic growth,” said Sante. “For this reason, for example, we recently invested to expand production capacity at two of our powder coating plants in China that are part of the Axalta Huajia joint venture.”
Axalta’s newest powder coatings include three new prod-ucts. Abcite thermoplastic powder coating is formulated for toughness, durability and outstanding corrosion protection, without the need of a primer. “Abcite’s properties are derived from engineered polyolefin-based polymers combining tough-ness, excellent adhesion to substrates and resistance to shock,” said Sante. “Unlike thermosetting powder settings, Abcite sim-ply melts onto a pre-heated surface. When cooled, adhesion, appearance and physical properties are established without the need for curing.”
Alesta ZeroZinc is Axalta’s latest next generation of zinc free anticorrosion primers. The ZeroZinc family includes a “Steel Primer” for ferrous substrates, an “Edge Primer” for steel and aluminum substrates with sharp edges and an “Antigassing Primer,” which offers a tailored solution for degassing substrates.
Nap-Gard High Tg 7-2555 is a next generation product which can withstand continuous operating temperatures of 155°C (311°F). “It is a thermosetting epoxy powder designed for use as a corrosion barrier coating for underground and sub-sea pipelines that operate in high temperature service,” added Sante. “It can be used as a corrosion coating in a stand-alone or dual-powder coating system or as a corrosion coating under multi-layer insulation systems. When used in conjunction with Axalta’s most recent dual layer system Nap-Gard 7-2675, the operating system increases to 180°C (356°F). The second layer is designed to ensure reduced water permeability and improved chemical resistance.”
AkzoNobel has launched a string of innovative products over the past year. This includes Interpon Cr, which is intended as a substitute for chrome plating in a number of interior applica-tions. Interpon Cr, part of AkzoNobel’s Interpon powder coat-ings range, combines a chrome-like finish with the performance of a two-coat powder coating for applications such as furniture, lighting and other interior fixtures. The unique combination of a highly reflective base coat layer with a clear top coat also offers outstanding resistance to finger marking, the company stated.
“We also launched Interpon Align, an innovative two-coat, one-bake powder coating product that offers customers sig-nificant productivity and energy efficiency improvements and can also result in lower capital investment,” said Kiefer. Utilizing dry-on-dry coatings technology, Interpon Align delivers superi-or edge coverage and corrosion performance, while eliminating one full cure cycle. The result is a shortened coating cycle lead-ing to improved productivity and, in some cases, reduced capital
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investment. The new technology can be tailored to meet exact color and performance requirements, resulting in a wide range of end-use products, including thick and heavy mass metal parts that meet the most demanding OEM specifications for protec-tion and appearance.
One of Sherwin-Williams’ newest offerings is Powdura Sprint, a low-cure polyester resin-based powder coating system for use on medium density fiberboard (MDF). It’s used for fin-ishing applications in the furniture, kitchen cabinet and general finishing markets and provides a high quality finish as it cures at temperatures as low as 250˚F. “We’re also seeing more activity on polyester powder being used for composites like fiberglass pultrusions for exterior building products,” said McMahon.
“We also recently introduced Powdura OneCure, a two coating, one cure dry-on-dry system designed to save finish-ers time and money by reducing the steps needed to achieve enhanced edge coverage and corrosion resistance,” McMahon added. “This coating is designed for use in heavy equipment and general metal finishing applications. Its primers and top-coats have the ability to co-react and cross-link, providing a seamless finish that delivers high quality aesthetics with su-perb durability. It offers a high performance alternative to con-ventional two-bake powder primer and topcoat systems and allows finishers to reduce energy use, labor and maintenance costs while increasing throughput.”
Valspar delivered two technology achievements in 2014 for the powder coating market: Valspar Valde Edge Coverage Powder (ECP) coating and Valspar Valde Extreme Flex Cure (EFC) coating. Valspar Valde ECP coating is a two-coat, one-cure technology for industrial equipment that provides best-in-class edge coverage protection from corrosion and rust, addressing a common problem for industrial equipment manufacturers. Valde ECP delivers a smooth, superior-looking finish and is the lowest cost option available on the market today that can de-liver this performance. From a production standpoint, manu-facturers can reduce two steps in the powder coating process by applying the primer coat and the topcoat; then oven curing in just one step rather than the traditional method of applying the primer; then oven curing followed by the topcoat application and a second oven cure.
Valspar Valde EFC coating doesn’t require compromises be-tween durability, finish cure temperature and cure rate. Valspar Valde EFC delivers a smooth finish, high gloss and super durable performance at a lower cure temperature and faster cure rate than standard powders. Manufacturers can decide just how much time and energy they want to save, adjusting the oven heat settings and cure times to meet their specific manufacturing needs.
These new technology platforms not only deliver new value to the marketplace and new solutions for customer needs, but also open up new markets where powder coatings can be used. CW
Axalta Presents Advances in Powder Coatings for Corrosion Protection and Visual Appeal
Chemists Christopher Lopez and Reena Reddy from Axalta Coating Systems recently presented their work on powder coat-ings at FABTECH 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Lopez’s talk show-cased the use of Axalta’s fusion bonded epoxy (FBE) powder coatings that are designed to help protect metal pipelines for transporting oil, gas or water. Reddy’s presentation focused on Axalta’s powder coatings that have metallic visual effects for ex-terior and interior applications.
FBE powder coatings are widely used to help protect pipe-line structures from corrosion, given that they are formulated to offer enhanced physical and chemical stability, resistance to soil stress, adhesion to metal, and resistance to abrasion and corro-sion mitigation.
“Properties of the FBE are affected by selection of epoxy resin and other components, such as curing agents, pigments and ad-ditives,” explained Lopez. “When we develop our FBE coatings, we consider not only the coating properties that we desire, such as corrosion protection, flexibility, impact resistance and chemi-cal resistance, but also the application process that our customers use to apply the coatings. In addition, we also provide a variety of powder coating systems such as single layer systems and dual layer systems to help meet our customers’ needs,” Lopez added.
The durability and stability of powder coatings can help to maintain the structural integrity of the underlying metal that they are designed to protect. However, when special effect metallic
pigments, such as aluminum, gold, bronze or copper are used in powder coatings, the “visual appeal” is sometimes the cus-tomer’s key property. Reddy and her team identified factors that influence the optical properties of the metallic pigments in pow-der coatings.
“Solid color powder coating overspray can often be recov-ered and returned to the coating system to help allow custom-ers to achieve nearly 100 percent use of powder coating materi-als. There is a process called bonding in metallic effect coatings where the pigments are fused to the powder particles to help al-low for excellent reclamation,” explained Reddy. “When proper effect pigments are selected, we can have a durable coating fin-ish with an appealing anodized metallic visual appearance using only a single layer of powder coating. The layer is formulated to provide good protection and an aesthetic benefit that helps to reduce material use and coating costs for our customers.”
“Axalta powder coatings are offered to be used in many industrial applications for aesthetics and protection purposes, including architectural, pipeline and automotive,” said Dr. Fred Allen, Axalta’s global technology idector of Powder Coatings. “We are committed to working closely with our customers to understand their needs and to continue to develop products and coating processes to help meet those needs, whether a customer needs a coating with exceptional corrosion or impact resistance, or a coating with visual pizzazz.”
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Taking a hard look at critical manufacturing processes can be time consuming, labor intensive and ultimately lead to disruptive, yet productive change. Often times,
short-term solutions are applied to reduce the downtime and frustration associated with process overhauls.
But for Beacon Products, a division of Hubbell Lighting, a move into a new 150,000 square foot facility made a review and finishing line overhaul worthwhile. A ‘one-stop’ resource for architects, landscape architects, engineers and lighting designers, the Bradenton, Florida, company manufactures marine-grade, copper-free cast and extruded aluminum ar-chitectural outdoor lighting and associated products for com-mercial and governmental projects worldwide.
Prior to the move, Beacon’s finishing process was in a state of flux. Liquid coatings were still being used for some prod-ucts, and powder finishing pretreatment utilized a chromate (caustic) system. Powder coating finish quality was a concern as warranties are critical for Beacon’s customers. When design-ing the new facility, the company conducted a vigorous audit of its finishing process – they knew there were improvements and efficiencies to be found.
New thinking + new partners = new resultsAs part of its relocation, Beacon initiated a partnership with Sherwin-Williams that converted all finishing to pow-der coatings, helped change the finishing operation’s pre-treatment procedures, and improved the existing powder coating process.
“We were working with an outside consultant to see how we could improve overall results while still using our existing coating suppliers,” said Perry Romano, vice president, Product Development. “Unfortunately, we were getting poor results for salt spray tests. We called in Sherwin-Williams, and they helped us a lot, beginning with the pretreatment process. They helped us tweak the process so that it was perfect.”
Beacon’s existing powder coating pretreatment proce-dure used a sandblasting and chromate process to improve coating adherence. While effective, the process was also
expensive, and required removing the residue for off-site treatment as hazardous waste. Beacon sought a more sus-tainable solution. The answer was a five-step, chromate-free dipping process in which parts – some 20 to 25 feet long – are moved via overhead crane along a line of 40’ immersion tanks and dried before entering the powder coating booths and ovens.
“With the new pretreatment system, we don’t need to have the residual liquid hauled away,” Romano said. “All of the excess water goes into a large cylinder, where sediment settles to the bottom. We have a permit that allows us to put the leftover water directly into the sewer system. I would estimate that in the first year, this saved us approximately $50,000, and we’ve grown since then. I’d have to say it’s probably a savings of several hundred thousand dollars an-nually today.”
As a partner to Beacon Products, Sherwin-Williams provid-ed training to improve powder coating techniques. The finish-ing line’s powder coating transfer efficiency was increased, and film build was made more consistent through the training pro-cess and enhancements to the line’s procedures. The primary coatings used are Sherwin-Williams Powdura 4000 and 5000, which are color matched to products in the Beacon catalog for next day delivery from Sherwin-Williams’ Tampa facility. Custom colors that include mirror finishes and certain pati-nas of green to simulate an aged copper look are matched to Beacon’s specifications.
Sherwin-Williams also developed a textured finish.“We wanted a certain type of texture to the finish,” Romano said. “When you’re dealing with castings, you want to be able to cover up some of the imperfections. The textured finish really helped us.”
Certification provides competitive edgeThe finishing line upgrades have paid off. Confidence in the quality of its finishing process allowed Beacon Products to achieve AAMA 2604 and AAMA 2605 certification for its Beacote-V and Beacote-X paint finishes, warranting the finishes for five and ten years, respectively, based on
Finishing Line Upgrades Deliver Certifiable Improvements For Metal Architectural Products Manufacturer
Sherwin-Williams Product FinishesBEACon PRoDUCTs CAsE sTUDy
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proper installation, maintenance and appropriate product specification. Sherwin-Williams worked with Beacon to complete the AAMA certifica-
tions, beginning with training and a line audit to ensure each stage of the process met or exceeded AAMA standards. Powder coating booths, grounding methods, spray guns and testing procedures were adjusted to ensure even coat-ing and finish thickness. This was followed by line trials and finished parts submission for final testing.
“Customers have purchased products because we are certified,” Romano said. “If a project specifier puts in the spec that the lighting has to be AAMA certified, that gives us an edge.”
And when Beacon – a pioneer in LED lighting – announced that 100 per-cent of its lighting products would utilize LED technology, AAMA certifica-tion became even more important. LED lighting is known for its ability to last for years, even when operated 24/7. The finishes on commercial outdoor LED lighting products must match that long life in terms of gloss and resistance against fading.
“We’re located in a coastal environment, so we understand that the finish can be a big issue for specifiers,” Romano said. “We wanted to be able to protect the outside and inside surfaces of our products because we know what salt air can do to finishes. But our products are used worldwide – for example, they may be specified for a project in Abu Dhabi, where a finish might be subjected to blow-ing sand. UV exposure may be an issue elsewhere. Our AAMA certifications help with that type of customer.”
Continuous improvementThe road to finishing line improvements never ends. Sherwin-Williams and Beacon meet on a regular basis to discuss any issues that may arise and work together to resolve them.
“If we have a situation with a powder coating process, Sherwin-Williams works through it to determine root cases,” Romano said. “For example, we had some outgassing issues on a particular casting; they helped us work on our preheating to eliminate most of the outgassing before powder coating.”
Beacon estimates that even though its business has increased, the efficiencies gained in the finishing line have allowed the com-pany to complete its work with just one shift per day.
“We have been able to increase the number of parts that we move through the finishing line while maintaining quality, Romano said. “Sherwin-Williams has helped us increase our throughput.” CW
1. Pretreatment system – five-stage dipping tank
system removes all contaminants from metals
before they go into drying oven. Parts spend sec-
onds to several minutes in each tank, by the time
they come out, contaminants such as lubricants
from machining, loose debris is removed; parts
are perfectly clean, then go into a drying oven –
anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes.
2. Poles going into one of the pretreatment tanks.
Coming out of fourth stage, going into rinsing
tank. Each tank up until the last one contains
chemicals – the first tank has highest concentra-
tion of chemicals, it is heated, and helps to
break up any lubricants. Second tank, chemical
content is reduced, By the time parts reach 4th
tank, they’re clean, and tank #5 is pure (treated
– not distilled) water.
3. The drying oven, where the poles spend 40
minutes after pretreatment. This is next sequence
after tanks.
4. One of the finishers with spray gun applying
powder coating to poles.
5. Poles, out of final finish oven. Final finish oven is
in background.
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Dow Microbial ControlPhiladelphia, PA, USA800-447-4369www.dow.com/microbial/mbit/[email protected]
• BIOBAN 557 AntimicrobialEPA registration expected in 2015. Better in-can protection for low-VOC paint, colorants, latex and slurries. Fast-acting and long-lasting protection. Effective against a broad spectrum of bacteria and fungi – even resilient manufacturing isolates. Based on a new active – MBIT.
Janssen PMPTitusville, NJ, [email protected]
• ECONEAECONEA represents the latest generation of active substances for use in antifouling paints to prevent the settlement of un-wanted aquatic organisms on ship hulls and other marine struc-tures. More information can be found at www.econea.com.
Kumar Organics LimitedBangalore, India+91-80-41425832Fax: +91-80-26715688
• Zinc PyrithioneBiocide used as antifungal agent in decorative and architectural water-based paints. Also used in powder form in soft fouling, marine paints. Preferred due to negligible solubility in water and usage up to 2500 ppm. Effective in leaching prevention.
• Copper PyrithioneBiocide used as antifungal agent in antifouling paints. Used in combination with cuprous oxide and cuprous thiocyanate. Characteristic minimal solubility enables prevention of hard fouling in hull and outer part of ships. Also used in painting offshore structures and static research equipments at sea.
Lanxess CorporationPittsburgh, PA, USA412-809-3553 Fax: [email protected]
• Preventol D 7 1.5% CMIT/MIT (0 VOC)For industrial use as an in-can preservative to inhibit the growth of bacteria, fungi and yeast in paints and coatings, pigment and mineral slurries, and tacki� ers and polymer emulsions.
• Preventol A 14-D 22% Diuron, 10% BCM and 3% OIT Dispersion
For use as a preservative to inhibit the growth of fungi and algae in paints, coatings, plasters, sealants and � llers used for architec-tural products, � nishes and special purpose coatings.
Here is a look at the latest offerings from select biocide suppliers.For more information on the products listed, please contact the company directly.
DIRECTORYBiocides, Fungicides & Algicides
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LonzaBasel, Switzerland800-523-7301www.lonza.comindustrial.solutions@lonza.com
• Omadine TechnologyColor-stable preservation based on Zing Pyrithione chemistry. Long lasting, broad spectrum dry film protection.
• Proxel TechnologyInnovative in-can protection for long term performance. Effective against bacteria, fungi and yeasts in a wide range of industrial, aqueous-based products.
Troy CorporationFlorham Park, NJ, USA(973) 443-4200Fax: (973) [email protected]
• Polyphase S99New Polyphase S99 is an advanced, low-leaching, Diuron-free fungicide + algaecide that offers excellent performance at low
cost-in-use. Polyphase S99 is VOC- and formaldehyde-free with a low hazard profile, making the product ideal for ‘green’ water-based exterior coatings and stucco.
• Polyphase 963New Polyphase 963 is a high-performance, long-lasting, re-markably cost-effective fungicide + algaecide for solvent-based wood applications. Polyphase 963 offers environmental respon-sibility and a low hazard profile. The preservative is low-VOC and free of formaldehyde and APE. CW
Does Your Company Belong in the Biocides, Fungicides & Algicides Directory?
To be included in next year’s directory, please contact: Kerry Pianoforte, Editor
201-805-2236; [email protected]
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José A. Jofre-Reche, Andrés J. Yáñez-Pacios & José Miguel Martín-Martínez, Adhesion And
Adhesives Laboratory, University Of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
Manuel Colera & Víctor Costa, Ube Chemical Europe S.A., Castellón, Spain
Introduction
Several substrates are severely exposed to aggressive out-door environments (abrasion, corrosion, resistance to chemical or solvents, degradation by moisture or water),
and to prevent the reduction of their properties due to degra-dation several coatings of different nature are commonly used. In the particular case of piping for the oil and mining industry, degradation is a key concern as inside the pipeline corrosive flu-ids containing solid particles are circulating. For increasing the durability of the pipelines they are internally coated to increase their lifetime and increase the time for maintenance [1]. These coatings are commonly based on polymeric materials, more spe-cifically semi-rigid polyurethanes [2]. Polyether diol-based poly-urethane coatings are currently used for pipelines due to their relatively good water resistance but their wear resistance and stability against oils and solvents, as well as thermal stability are not fully satisfactory [3]. Typically, the drawbacks of these polyurethane coatings have been solved by incorporating addi-tives particularly fillers of different nature and size (nano-silica, zinc oxide, alumina particles [4-6]) for increasing their abrasion resistance.
As compared to the polyurethanes obtained with polyether or polyester, due to the higher molar attraction constant of the car-bonate groups, the polyurethanes prepared with polycarbonate
diol can be a feasible alternative for improving the mechanical properties and increase the hydrolytic stability, imparting ad-ditionally good elastomeric properties and adequate behavior at low temperature [7,8] (Figure 1). Because these particular and unique features of the polycarbonate diol, in this study several polyurethane coatings were synthesized by using dif-ferent polyether diol + polycarbonate diol mixtures as polyol for preparing polyurethane coatings with improved hardness and wear resistance in pipeline internal coatings, additional to improved mechanical properties and hydrolytic stability.
Novel Polyurethane Coatings Obtained with Polycarbonate
Diol for Pipelines with Improved Mechanical Properties
and Hydrolysis Resistance
Figure 1. Molar attraction constant (units: J3/2cm3/2mol-1) of different groups in
the polyols.
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Polyurethane Coatings
Experimental MaterialsIn this study two different polyols of different nature were used in the formulations of polyurethanes. One of the poly-ols was polytetramethylene glycol (PTMEG) with molecular weight 1000 Da and it was chosen to obtain polyether diol-based polyurethanes (the typical formulation in the current internal coating for pipeline), and the other polyol was a copolymer of polycarbonate of 1,6-hexanediol and 1,5-pen-tanediol of molecular weight 500 Da – PCD - (Eternacoll® PH50, UBE Chemical Europe S.A., Castellón, Spain). Different mixtures on PTMEG and PCD were prepared for obtaining synergistic properties, i.e. combining the advantag-es of the polyether polyurethanes (i.e. good flexibility) and of the polycarbonate diol polyurethanes (i.e. high abrasion and mechanical resistance, high hydrolytic resistante). Polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate (pMDI) with 24% free NCO content and 2.1 average functionality was used.
Polyurethanes were prepared by using the one shot method. Prepolymers were obtained by reacting pMDI with the polyols, and 1,4-butanediol was used as chain extender.
Experimental techniquesThermal properties were measured using thermal gravimet-ric analysis (TGA) in TGA system by heating from room temperature to 800ºC at 10ºC/min under nitrogen atmo-sphere. Furthermore, the structure of the polyurethanes was analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) us-ing DSC system by heating from -70ºC to 100ºC at 10ºC/min under nitrogen atmosphere followed by cooling down to -70ºC and carrying out a second heating from -70ºC to 100ºC at 10ºC/min.
Abrasion resistance was evaluated using rotational abram-eter using abrasion wheel according to ISO 54701 standard. Surface topography of the eroded polyurethane coatings after abrasion was qualitatively analyzed by optical microscopy.
Shore A hardness of the polyurethane films was measured with durometer, equipped with pin load according to standard ISO 868:2003.
Mechanical properties of the polyurethane films were ob-tained by stress-strain tests and resistance to tear. The stress-strain tests were carried out in dog bone test specimens of polyurethanes obtained according ISO 37 standard. The resis-tance to tear of the polyurethane films was obtained from tear strength tests according ISO 34-1 standard. In both cases, the experiments were carried out in universal testing machine using a pulling rate of 50 mm/min (stress-strain test) and 500 mm/min (tear test).
The hydrolytic resistance of the polyurethane films was es-timated from stress-strain and tear strength tests of aged poly-urethane films carried out by soaking in water at 70ºC for 15 days, according to ASTM D-471 standard. After degrading the polyurethane films, they were also characterized by using TGA and DSC.
Experimental methodologyThe effect of the amount of polycarbonate diol in the polyols mix-ture (PCD + PTMEG) and the NCO/OH ratio on the properties of the polyurethane films were studied. In order to find the optimal formulation, a statistical experiments design methodology was ap-plied for analyzing the combined effect of the two variables simul-taneously; the abrasion resistance was chosen as response variable.
A Doehlert experimental plan was chosen for experiment design due to its spherical domain and the small number of experiments required to obtain a second degree response, as well as because of the high number of levels of study: 5 levels for PCD weight content in the polyols mixture (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100wt%) and 3 levels for NCO/OH ratio (1.05, 1.20 and 1.35). Figure 2 shows the distribu-tion of experiments in the Doehlert experimental domain.
Results and Discussion Thermal properties of the polyurethanes prepared with PTMEG, PCD or PTMEG+PCD mixturesThe values of the glass transition temperature of the polyure-thanes obtained with NCO/OH ratio of 1.20 and varying the PCD content between 0 and 100%wt (Figure 3) are different because of the different degree of phase separation between the hard and soft segments. As the PCD (PH50) content increases the value of the glass transition temperature increases too.
Figure 4 shows the variation of the weight loss and the de-rivative of the weight loss as a function of the temperature of the polyurethane films. Several decomposition steps are found. For the polyurethane synthesized with PTMEG only, the decom-position of the soft segments is produced at higher temperature (410ºC) than that of the hard segments (364ºC).However, in the polyurethanes prepared with polycarbonate diol (PH50), the weight loss due to hard segments is produced at lower temperature (327-328 ºC) than the soft segments derived from polycarbonate diol (354-367 ºC). Interestingly, the polyurethane
Figure 2. Doehlert experimental design for polycarbonate diol content and
NCO/OH ratio of the polyurethanes at 5 and 3 levels of study respectively.
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prepared with 50 wt% PTMEG + 50 wt% PH50 shows the dif-ferentiated thermal decompositions of both polyols.Mechanical properties of the polyurethanes prepared with PTMEG, PCD or PTMEG+PCD mixturesPolyurethanes obtained with polyether diol only show poor abrasion properties (Table 1), as notable weight loss is obtained in the coatings by friction. However, in the polyurethanes with polycarbonate diol in the formulation, the abrasion resistance was highly improved, even when small amount of polycarbon-ate diol is added. Furthermore, when the polycarbonate diol content in the polyurethane was higher than 50wt%, the abra-sion properties remain almost constant. The increase in abrasion in the polyurethanes can be ascribed likely to the higher interac-tions between polycarbonate chains with respect to these in the polyether chains (Figure 1).
Using lower values of NCO/OH ratio, a slight improvement in the wear resistance of the polyurethane films is obtained. This can be ascribed to higher stiffness of the polyurethanes contain-ing higher number of hard segments, and thus when soft segments are dominant (such as for low NCO/OH ratios) better resistance to abrasion with low weight loss is produced. Figure 5 shows the values of weight loss after abrasion for the polyurethanes prepared with different NCO/OH ratios and different contents of polycar-bonate diol in the polyol mixtures. The better wear resistances are obtained in the polyurethanes prepared with higher content of
Figure 3. DSC thermograms of the polyurethanes prepared with different
contents of PCD in the polyols mixture. Second heating run.
Figure 4. Variation of the weight loss and the derivative of the weight loss
(DTGA) as a function of the temperature of the polyurethanes with different
weight content of PH50 PCD (NCO/OH ratio = 1.20).
Table 1. Values of abrasion of the polyurethanes prepared with different poly-
ols and NCO/OH ratio of 1.2.
Figure 5. Effect of NCO/OH ratio and different contents of PCD in the polyols
mixture on the wear resistance of the polyurethane coatings.
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polycarbonate diol (PCD) in the polyols mixture and lower NCO/OH ratio value.
The influence of the content of poly-carbonate diol in the polyols mixture can be better observed in the response surface plots (Figure 6a) and its corre-sponding curve-level 2D plot (Figure 6b). Both plots show that the weight loss af-ter abrasion is lower than 40 mg in the polyurethanes with PCD content higher than 20wt%, irrespective of the NCO/OH ratio, and thus the polycarbonate diol content has a dominant effect on the abrasion resistance of the polyurethanes. Furthermore, the response surface and curve-level 2D plots show that 60wt% PCD in the polyurethanes produces the highest abrasion resistance.
Figure 7 shows some optical mi-croscope images of the surfaces of the polyurethane coatings before and after abrasion test was carried out. The images
Figure 6. (a): Surface response of abrasion in the polyurethanes as a function of the PCD content and NCO/OH ratio. (b): Curvelevels 2D of the abrasion drawn
over the experimental domain.
Figure 7. Optical microscope images of the
surfaces of the polyurethane coatings before and
after abrasion test. [Photos by José A. Jofre-Reche,
Andrés J. Yáñez-Pacios and José Miguel Martín-
Martínez - Adhesion and Adhesives Laboratory –
University of Alicante]
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corresponding to the polyurethane prepared with polyether show marked changes in surface morphology caused by important abrasion leading to a highly roughened surface. On the contrary, the surfaces of the polyurethanes prepared with polycarbonate diol and 50wt% polycarbonate diol + 50wt% polyether obtained after abrasion show similar and lower roughness.
Shore A hardness values of the polyurethane films prepared with different content of polyether (PTMEG) and polycarbonate diol (PH50) increase by increasing the amount of PCD, i.e. the higher is the content of PCD, the higher is the Shore A hardness value of the polyurethane. Figure 8a shows the Shore A hardness values as a function of the PCD content in the polyol mixtures (for NCO/OH ratio of 1.20), and an almost linear increase of hardness in the polyurethane as a function of the PCD content in the polyol mixture is produced. On the other hand, by increas-ing the NCO/OH ratio in the polyurethane the Shore A hardness value also increases (Figure 8b). Both, the increase in the NCO/OH ratio and the polycarbonate diol content in the polyols mix-ture increases the Shore A hardness due likely to the increase in the hard segments in the polyurethane; however, for high content of PCD in the polyols mixture, the effect of the polycarbonate diol on Shore A hardness values of the polyurethane is more im-portant than the incidence of the NCO/OH ratio.
The mechanical properties of the polyurethanes were also ob-tained from stress-strain tests of polyurethanes prepared with poly-ether only and with 40wt% polyether + 60wt% polycarbonate diol. Figure 9 shows that the polyurethane prepared with 40wt% polyether + 60wt% polycarbonate diol has higher Young’s modu-lus and tensile strength than the one prepared with polyether only, although the elongation-at-break is lower. The increase in tensile strength in the polyurethane prepared with 40wt% polyether + 60wt% polycarbonate diol can be ascribed to higher cohesive forc-es between carbonate groups in the polyol chains in the soft seg-ments of the polyurethane. On the other hand, a similar trend was obtained in tear strength values of the polyurethanes (Figure 10).
Figure 8a. Variation of the Shore A hardness values of the polyurethanes as a
function of the PCD content in the polyols mixture. NCO/OH: 1.2.
Figure 8b. Variation of the Shore A hardness values of the polyurethanes as a
function of the NCO/OH ratio. Different PCD content in the polyols mixture.
Figure 9. Stress-strain curves of the polyurethanes prepared with PTMEG only
and with 40wt% PTMEG and 60wt% polycarbonate diol mixture.
Figure 10. Values of tear strength of the polyurethanes prepared with PTMEG
only and with 40wt% PTMEG and 60wt% polycarbonate diol mixture.
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Properties of the polyurethanes after hydrolytic degradationThe resistance to hydrolysis of the polyurethanes was determined by measuring their mechanical properties before and after im-mersion in water at 70ºC for 15 days. Noticeable changes in the polyurethane structure are found (Figure 11). After immersion in hot water the color of the polyurethane was clearer in the polyurethane prepared with polyether only although it becomes soft and has gum-like appearance.
Figure 12 (next page) shows the TGA thermograms of the polyurethanes prepared with PTMEG only and with a mix-ture of PTMEG and PH50 (PU- 40wt% PTMEG + 60wt% PH50). The TGA thermograms of the polyurethanes are quite similar before and after hydrolysis, although in the polyurethane prepared with PTMEG only no residue is obtained at the end of the experiment (2wt% remained in the polyurethane before hydrolysis). For the polyurethane prepared with 40wt% PTMEG + 60wt% polycarbonate diol mixture similar residue is obtained (4.7-5.1 wt%). There are fewer residues because the structure of the PCD is more compact than the polyether one; and the variation of the residue after degradation is more notable for the PTMEG PU (no residue left) due to the defragmentation of the backbone polymer chains produced by poly-ether hydrolysis.
Figure 11. Photos of the polyurethanes before and after water immersion at 70ºC for 15 days. [Photos by José A. Jofre-Reche, Andrés J. Yáñez-Pacios and José
Miguel Martín-Martínez - Adhesion and Adhesives Laboratory – University of Alicante]
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Figure 13 shows the stress-strain curves of the polyurethanes prepared with PTMEG only and with 40wt% PTMEG and 60wt% polycarbonate diol mixture, before and after immer-sion in water at 70ºC for 15 days. After hydrolysis a decrease in stress and an increase in elongation-at-break are obtained in the polyurethanes, the changes in the mechanical proper-ties are more pronounced in the polyurethane prepared with polyether only. On the other hand, the mechanical properties of the polyurethanes prepared with 40wt% PTMEG + 60wt% polycarbonate diol mixture after water immersion are higher than in the polyurethane prepared with polyether only before hydrolytic degradation.
Table 2 shows the values and the percentages of variation of different mechanical properties in the polyurethanes before and after water immersion at 70ºC during 15 days; for sake of clarity, the percentage of variation for each mechanical
property is given in Figure 14 (red bars: polyurethane pre-pared with polyether only; blue bars: polyurethane prepared with 40wt% polyether + 60wt% polycarbonate diol). In gen-eral, the decrease in the Young’s modulus, elastic limit, tough-ness and resilience values is more important (up to 70% lower) in the polyurethane prepared with polyether only (except for the yield point); however, for the polyurethane prepared with 40wt% polyether + 60wt% polycarbonate diol the reduction in mechanical properties is lower than 40%. It is interesting that after water immersion an increase in elongation-at-break is produced in both polyurethanes.
ConclusionsPolyurethane coatings prepared with polycarbonate diol shows noticeable improvement in abrasion resistance, Shore A hard-ness, mechanical properties and hydrolytic resistance than in the
Figure 12. Variation of the weight loss as a function of the temperature of the PU films prepared with PTMEG only and with 40wt% PTMEG + 60wt% polycarbon-
ate diol mixture, before and after water immersion at 70ºC for 15 days.
Figure 13. Stress-strain curves of the polyurethanes before and after water
immersion at 70ºC for 15 days.
Figure 14. Percentage of variation of the mechanical properties of the polyure-
thanes prepared with PTMEG only and 40wt% polyether + 60wt% polycarbon-
ate diol mixture after immersion water at 70ºC for 15 days.
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polyurethane prepared with polyether only. Even with a minor con-tent of polycarbonate diol in the polyols mixture, the improvement in the properties of the polyurethane is noticeable. The addition of polycarbonate diol affects more the mechanical properties and hy-drolytic resistance of the polyurethane than the increase in the NCO/OH ratio does. The better mechanical properties and higher hydro-lytic resistance of the polyurethanes prepared with polycarbonate diol can be ascribed to the particular properties of the carbonate group leading to stronger interactions between the soft segments in the polyurethanes and therefore favoring the miscibility between the hard and soft segments.
AcknowledgementsFinancial support of UBE Chemical Europe S.A. (Contact person in UBE: Manuel Colera; e-mail: [email protected]) is acknowledged.
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Dr. Manuel Colera, Business Development Manager Dr. Colera obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from University of Valencia (Spain). After finishing this degree, his career was focused on developing industrial biodegradable polymers. After joining UBE Chemical Europe in 2008, he mainly worked in R&D for polycarbonate diol, developing an extensive variety of new applications of ETERNACOLL® polycarbonate diols in high-performance polyurethanes market, as well as other UBE products, such as electrolytes, polyamides and polyimides. Currently, he holds the position of “Business Development Manager” of Fine Chemicals Business Unit in UBE Chemical Europe for marketing activities and the development of new projects with other companies.
Table 2. Values of mechanical properties of the polyurethanes before and after water immersion at 70ºC for 15 days, and percentage of variation of each property.
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The Dow Chemical Company has signed a definitive agreement under which ANGUS Chemical Company will be sold to Golden Gate Capital for $1.215 bil-lion. The transaction is expected to close during the first quarter of 2015, subject to completion of customary regulatory filings. Dow had previously announced its intent to divest this business on Oct. 2, 2014. The divestiture aligns to Dow’s efforts to achieve its identified target of $4.5 billion to $6 billion in proceeds from shedding non-strategic assets and businesses by year-end 2015. To date, Dow has achieved $2.5 billion in pro-ceeds designed to remunerate sharehold-ers, reduce debt, and fund growth. “With today’s announcement, Dow continues to demonstrate its rigorous focus on selectively shifting our portfo-lio away from assets that are no longer a strategic fit and optimizing their value,” said Andrew N. Liveris, Dow’s chairman and chief executive officer. “We remain committed to streamlining our portfolio aligned to our market-driven, integrated strategy and will continue to pursue ad-ditional portfolio actions in our relentless pursuit of rewarding shareholders.” The divestiture of ANGUS in-cludes the business headquarters and R&D facility in Buffalo Grove, Illinois; manufacturing facilities lo-cated in Sterlington, Louisiana, and Ibbenbueren, Germany; a packaging facility in Niagara Falls, New York; as well as the associated business, in-ventory, customer contracts, process technology, business know-how and certain intellectual property. ANGUS is the world’s only chemical company dedicated to the manufacture and dis-tribution of nitroalkanes and their de-rivatives, which are versatile additives and intermediates that help customers to enhance their products’ performance. Industries using ANGUS’ products include paints and coatings, life sci-ences and biopharma, metalworking,
personal care, pharmaceuticals, water treatment and oil & gas. Approximately 290 employee positions globally are ex-pected to transition employment sta-tus as ANGUS moves to being owned by Golden Gate Capital as part of the transaction. Under terms of the pur-chase agreement, ANGUS will continue to honor customer, licensing and sup-plier contracts and related agreements.
Arkema Finalizes Asset Acquisition in ChinaArkema has finalized the first stage of its acrylics assets acquisition project in Taixing, China, and now has access to a modern and competitive 160,000 ton/year acrylic acid production capac-ity in Asia for the sum of $240 million. This investment will enable the Group to serve its customers in China and in Asia in growing markets such as super-absorbents, paints, adhesives and water treatment.
Arkema has finalized the creation of Sunke, a joint venture with Jurong Chemical, in which Arkema has a major-ity interest, and which consists in particu-lar of two acrylic acid production lines each amounting to 160,000 ton/year lo-cated on the Taixing site in China. With the closing of this first stage, Arkema has access to half of the site’s installed production.
“This new site will enable us to meet our customers’ growing demand for acrylic acid and esters in China and in Asia, and to support the growth of our Coating Solutions segment in this region of the world. The successful integration of these new assets will be a priority for the Group and its personnel over the next few months,” stated Marc Schuller, mem-ber of Arkema’s Executive Committee.
Jurong Chemical is the world’s fifth largest producer of acrylic acid and the acrylics leader in China. It is a subsid-iary of Sunvic, a company listed on the Singapore stock market.
BASF to Increase Production Capacity at Nanjing, China Plant BASF will expand the production capac-ity of its existing world-scale production plant for tertiary Butylamine (tBA) at the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park in China. The company plans to increase the existing production capacity by 60 per-cent, from 10,000 tons to 16,000 tons per year. The expansion is expected to come on stream in early 2015, subject to regu-latory approval. The capacity increase will further strengthen BASF’s leading position as a global supplier to the rubber and tire industry.
tBA is a primary aliphatic amine that is used as an intermediate for the produc-tion of accelerators for the rubber and tire industry. It is also used in the pharma-ceutical and agricultural industries as a building block. In addition to the plant in Nanjing, BASF produces tBA in Geismar, Louisiana, and in Antwerp, Belgium.
U.S. Zinc Completes Second Phase of Zinc Oxide ExpansionU.S. Zinc has completed the planned ex-pansion project of their domestic zinc ox-ide plant in Millington, Tennessee ahead of schedule. The expansion will increase zinc oxide production by 8,000 metric tons per year and enable the company to better serve customers and provide reliable supply.
The startup of the new Millington furnace marks the completion of the pre-viously announced two-phased zinc ox-ide plant expansions, which have added more than 17,000 metric tons of zinc oxide production. The company previ-ously completed the first phase of the expansion at their Clarksville, Tenneseee, plant in early 2014, increasing zinc oxide production by 9,000 metric tons per year.
As in Clarksville, the Millington plant expansion included expanding ware-house space, installing new equipment and adding new employees.
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“First and foremost, we want to ensure that we can provide a reliable supply coupled with excellent customer service and
logistics for our customers,” said U.S. Zinc’s commercial vice president Tracy Baugh. “This expansion continues our commitment to the market to ensure a seamless customer experience.”
BASF Venture Capital Leads $3 Million Series A Financing in SLIPS TechnologiesBASF Venture Capital has led a $3 mil-lion Series A financing with a $1.5 mil-lion investment in SLIPS Technologies Inc. based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Swiss entrepreneur and private inves-tor Hansjörg Wyss has also participated in the financing.
SLIPS Technologies develops cus-tomized, highly-repellent slippery sur-faces for customers in all industries including energy, packaging, consumer, automotive and environmental. The company’s technology platform was created by Prof. Joanna Aizenberg and her team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Alongside the investment, BASF has signed a joint development agree-ment with SLIPS Technologies to de-velop SLIPS-coated thermoplastics with primary focus on thermoplastic poly-urethanes (TPUs). TPUs are used in a va-riety of applications such as sports and leisure footwear, industrial cables as well as specialty films.
“By collaborating with SLIPS Technologies, we will develop and com-mercialize TPUs with new and exciting properties,” said Steve Fischer, director of New Markets & Products, Performance Materials division at BASF.
The company will use the proceeds from the financing to advance various commercial applications of its slippery surfaces through internal development as well as in partnerships with its customers in industry and government.
BASF and Hemmelrath Technologies Enter into Development PartnershipBASF and Hemmelrath Technologies, a company that specializes in modular facility concepts for the production of paint and coatings, have entered into a cooperation in order to develop future-oriented concepts of pigment technology. The companies said that thier aim is to improve the output and quality of coat-ings and paint production and save costs through the introduction of new process-es. Both organizations plan to combine the modular coating plant technology (MoFa-Technology) with pigment prepa-rations from the Xfast range of BASF.
Hemmelrath Technologies, which is based in Erlenbach (Bavaria/Germany), is a process innovator in the field of paste production for coatings and paint. The company has developed the so-called MoFa-Technology where the individual steps of coating production are combined and interlinked in one single facility. This technology leads to significant savings in energy, raw material and time compared with traditional production procedures and can be used both for large and small production quantities.
In joint tests, Hemmelrath Technologies and BASF want to develop concepts to combine MoFa-Technology with pigment preparations and are go-ing to use the concentrated, solid prepa-rations from the Xfast range of BASF to this end. These stir-in pigments in the shape of free-flowing granules that are low in dust can be stirred directly into aqueous coatings and paint formulations and disperse in no time at all. It is no longer necessary to grind the pigment particles in a bead mill.
AkzoNobel, The Economist Intelligence Unit Investigate the Future of CitiesAkzoNobel has partnered with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) – the business research arm of The Economist Group – to explore what makes urban areas sustainable and examine how cities can become more liveable.
The EIU will engage with a team of expert thinkers and writers over the
next few months, culminating in the distribution of a high-profile report in January 2015.
Showcased via a series of interviews and blogs on The EIU’s thought leader-ship website, topics to be covered will include how to make transport more ac-cessible, the benefits of empowering com-munities to improve their environment, learning how to integrate slums and as-sessing what can be done to make cities more age-friendly.
The aim of the cooperation is to bring together leading independent commen-tators from across the world and invite them to give their own views on how our cities can better serve the people who live and work there.
AkzoNobel said it is already work-ing to improve the world’s urban areas through its Human Cities initiative, which is designed to address some of the key challenges of the 21st century. The introductory EIU article stresses that “to appreciate and realize the value of people in a city means creating and de-signing environments where human in-teraction can thrive.”
BASF Wolman GmbH Launches New Brand DesignBASF Wolman GmbH, a European mar-ket leader in wood protection, has offi-cially launched its new corporate brand design during a two day customer symposium in Baden-Baden, Germany. Approximately 90 global key custom-ers and business partners attended the event. The new design follows the re-cent name change of the legal entity from previously “Dr. Wolman GmbH” to “BASF Wolman GmbH” at the begin-ning of the year.
It is comprised of the red BASF color scheme and the reworked Wolman shield logo with a new graphic design element of yellow stripes in an interpretation of the traditional Wolman shield. With the new claim “Leading the Way in Wood Protection“ Wolman underlines that it stands for scientific expertise, partner-ship, technical competence and problem solving skills as well as professional ser-vice and state of the art products. CW
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The 6-page color brochure shows the influence of particle size, structure, and aftertreatment on colorimetric and performance properties such as degree of blackness, hue, jetness, viscosity, pig-ment black loading, dispersibility, electri-cal conductivity and gloss. A quadrant graphic shows how the combination of pigment structure and particle size affect carbon black characteristics.
The brochure discusses and recom-mends important carbon black properties for coating applications such as high-jetness automotive base coat, general industrial, electrodeposition and powder coating systems. It also describes the abil-ity of carbon black pigments to tint coat-ings and impart electrical conductivity. In addition to providing a glossary, the bro-chure details the capabilities of the Orion analytical and application laboratories for coatings.
For a copy of the brochure, request or download “Carbon Black Pigments for Coatings,” from www.oecliterature.com.
Union Process Manufactures SD1/Q Attritor Conversion SystemUnion Process, Inc., known globally as a manufacturer of particle size reduc-tion and dispersing equipment as well as related services for a broad range of research and industrial applications, has built a circulation conversion system for the SD1 laboratory Attritor. The circula-tion conversion system brings added flex-ibility and value to the SD1 Laboratory Attritor model line-up. The system allows a customer to easily configure their SD1 Laboratory Batch Attritor to operate as a Q Laboratory Circulation Attritor.
The SD1 was configured similar to a
typical laboratory dry grinding Attritor in-cluding a 1.5 gallon grinding tank, a two-piece plastic cover, stainless steel shaft and arms, a 3 HP, TEFC inverter-duty motor with a variable frequency controller.
A conversion kit was included in the package that allows the customer to convert the SD1 to a Q Circulation Laboratory Mill. The kit includes a stain-less steel, Halar-coated top discharge chamber, an impeller assembly, a Halar-coated Lub-R plastic grid plate, an axial seal, an agitator shaft and a sixth arm. For the circulation process, the system in-cludes a 5-gallon premix/circulation tank and pumping assembly based on a 1” air operated diaphragm pump with plastic housing and Teflon diaphragms and balls.
The system included an optional, por-table stand on casters so the customer could use the mill anywhere in the plant.
Ross Introduces New X-Series Ultra-High Shear MixerRoss has introduced the HSM-703XC, a new and improved model of the 10HP X-Series Ultra-High Shear Mixer. This in-line rotor/stator mixer generates very fine dispersions and emulsions with excep-tionally narrow particle size distribution. Sample applications include wax disper-sions, emulsion adhesives, pigmented inks, polymer suspensions, nanodisper-sions, silicone emulsions, electrode pastes, lithium grease and specialty coatings.
The X-Series mixing head (US Patent No. 5,632,596) is a stator with concen-tric rows of teeth and a matching rotor turning at tip speeds over 11,000 ft/min. Process fluid enters from the center and accelerates outward through channels in the intermeshing teeth of the rotor/stator. This high-velocity flow subjects the prod-uct to thousands of intense mechanical and hydraulic shearing events in a single pass.
Featuring a cartridge seal design, the new HSM-703XC is fully SIP/CIP
compatible and easier to maintain with fewer parts to take apart than previous X-Series models. Seal replacement is straightforward and does not require spe-cialized tools.
The barrier fluid tank of the HSM-703XC is also an improved design that can be completely disassembled and cleaned. All surfaces can be visually in-spected. Controls for the mixer have also evolved – in addition to mixer speed, am-perage and power load, the operator pan-el can now include flow, temperature and pressure monitoring of the barrier fluid.
Clariant Introduces New PV Fast Orange HGR High Performance PigmentClariant, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals, has added a new color to de-signers’ palettes with the launch of or-ange pigment PV Fast Orange HGR. This mid-shade orange can be used as a shad-ing pigment or to create new full orange shades.
PV Fast Orange HGR has high light and heat stability at low concentrations. The pigment is suitable for applications where low warpage is needed. PV Fast Orange HGR can be used to achieve product differentiation for consumer goods and packaging applications, such as caps and closures and household con-tainers, based on polyolefins and a wide variety of engineering polymers, includ-ing polycarbonate, polystyrene and ther-moplastic rubbers.
The pigment is compliant with EU Regulation 10/2011, and is manufac-tured at Clariant’s Azo Pigment and Pigment Preparation facility in Roha, India. This proximity to customers in India and China, where there is increas-ing demand for high-performance and cost-efficient coloration solutions, aligns with Clariant’s commitment to support emerging markets with high quality de-velopments. CW
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PPG Industries has appointed Marcos Achar Levy, previously chief executive officer of Comex, vice president, architectural coatings, Mexico, and CEO, PPG – Comex. He will report to Michael McGarry, PPG chief operating officer. PPG previously announced it had completed its ac-quisition of Comex.
“We are pleased to have Marcos Achar Levy and his leadership team join PPG,” McGarry said. “We look forward to continuing the successful traditions of Comex and working closely with the company’s concessionaire network.”
Personnel Changes at BASFThe Board of Executive Directors of BASF has made several personnel changesGabriel Tanbourgi, president of the Care Chemicals division, will retire effective December 31, 2014. He will be succeed-ed by Hans W. Reiners, who is currently president of the Performance Chemicals division, effective January 1, 2015.
Prof. Dr. Christian Fischer, presi-dent, Advanced Materials & Systems Research, will assume responsibility for the Performance Chemicals division effective January 1, 2015. Dr. Harald Lauke, presi-dent, Biological & Effect Systems Research, will succeed Fischer at the same time.
Dr. Peter Eckes, president, Plant Science, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, will assume responsibility for the new research division, Bioscience Research, Research Triangle Park, as of January 1, 2015.
Dr. Stefan Blank, senior vice president and managing director of BASF New Business, Ludwigshafen, will become president of the Intermediates division, Ludwigshafen, effective December 1, 2014. The current head of the division, Sanjeev Gandhi, has been appointed to the Board of Executive Directors of BASF
SE. Dr. Guido Voit, senior vice president, Intermediates Asia Pacific, BASF East Asia RHQ Ltd., Hong Kong, will succeed Blank as head of BASF New Business at the same time.
Superior Materials Makes Personnel ChangesSuperior Materials Inc., an independent specialty chemical distributor, located in Garden City NY, has announced the following personnel changes and pro-motions. Alex Blakeman has been pro-moted to senior director of technology. Blakeman has been with Superior for eight years and his technical knowl-edge and sales expertise is invaluable to Superior and their suppliers. Bruce Schimmel has been promoted to direc-tor of sales. Schimmel has been with Superior for three and a half years and is responsible for the Superior sales team, covering the Mid- Atlantic, New England and Mid-West territories.
Danny Madden has recently joined Superior as the Mid-West regional ac-count manager. Madden’s responsibili-ties include Ohio, Kentucky, portions of Indiana and Michigan. He has spent the previous 10 years in distribution in this region. Matthew Kafka has recently joined Superior Materials as a sales rep-resentative and will be covering the New York, New Jersey area. He is a graduate of Hofstra University in New York and has worked part time for Superior for two years.
Anvil Paint & Coatings Announces New CEO, PresidentThe Board of Directors of Anvil Paint & Coatings has promoted Glenn R. Roth to the position of chief executive officer. Roth has worked to develop the Anvil brand for 16 years, and in that time has been present for Anvil’s most recent ex-pansions as the company now occupies more than 55,000 square feet on five
acres to produce for national paint and market channels.Roth’s executive promotion was accom-panied by the introduction of new presi-dent, Kurt D. Schwahn. With more than 20 years of expertise in senior sales and major consumer good manufacturing, Schwahn is the former director of region-al and national sales and development of organizations such as Stanley Black & Decker and Newell Rubbermaid.
Bayer MaterialScience Names Head of Industrial Operations and TechnologyBayer MaterialScience has named Klaus Schäfer head of Industrial Operations and Technology.
He will assume global responsibility for this unit effective January 1, 2015. At the same time, he will become a member of the company’s Executive Committee.
Schäfer, who previously served in other leadership roles at Bayer MaterialScience, will succeed Tony Van Osselaer, who is retiring after 34 years with the company.
Quest Automotive Products Appoints New DirectorQuest Automotive Products (QAP), a member of the Quest Specialty Chemicals group, has hired Hermon Ferrell to be the company’s new director of Product & Color Management.
Ferrell brings more than 26 years of industry experience to Quest Automotive Products. His previous roles included senior product market-ing manager at Sherwin-Williams. This role, among other senior leadership positions, has given Ferrell an opportu-nity at QAP to oversee color manage-ment, color development, all aspects of product management and new strategic business developments. In turn, Ferrell will focus on developing more forward-thinking tools and initiatives, leading to customer-focused products and faster-to-market processes for QAP. CW
PPG Appoints Achar Levy VP, Architectural Coatings Mexico
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December 3 - 5, 2014CHINACOAT2014Location: Chinese Imort and Export Fiar Complex, Guangzhou, ChinaContact: Sinostar InternationalPhone: 852-2865-0062Website: www.chinacoat.netEmail: [email protected]
December 9 - 10, 2014Powder Coating 202 - Optimizing Your Powder Coating Operation with LabLocation: Indianapolis, INWebsite: www.powdercoating.org
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January 21 - 23, 2015The Coatings Summit 2015 – “Shaping the Future of a Dynamic Industry”Location: Miami, FLContact: International Paint and Printing Ink Council (IPPIC) and Vincentz NetworkWebsite: www.european-coatings.comEmail: [email protected]
February 2 - 6, 2015Polymers & Coatings Winter Short CourseLocation: San Luis Obispo, CaliforniaVenue: Cal Poly San Luis ObispoContact: Dr. Ray FernandoPhone: +1 805-756-2395Website: www.polymerscoatings.calpoly.edu
February 8-13, 2015Waterborne, High-Solids and Powder Coatings SymposiumLocation: New Orleans, LAVenue: Sheraton New OrleansContact: USM School of Polymers and High Performance Materials
Phone: 601-266-4474Website: www.waterbornesymposium.comEmail: [email protected]
February 11 - 12, 2015Liberty Bell Corrosion CourseLocation: Williamson’s Banquet Hall Horsham, PAContact: David KrausePhone: 610-868-9352Email: [email protected]
February 17 - 18, 2015SPE/NACE Deepwater Field Life Corrosion Prevention, Detection, Control, and RemediationLocation: AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center Austin, TX, U.S.Phone: +1 972-852-9292Email: [email protected]: www.spe.org
February 24 - 26, 2015Northern Area Western Conference 2015Location: Calgary TELUS Convention Centre Calgary, AB, Canada Contact: Yasir IdlibiPhone: 403-514-2334Email: [email protected]: www.nace.org
March 4 - 6, 2015Spray Finishing TrainingLocation: Toledo, OhioVenue: Owens Community CollegeContact: Jaime WinelandPhone: 800-466-9367
March 9 - 11, 20152015 CoatingsTech ConferenceLocation: Louisville, KyVenue: Marriott Louisville DowntownContact: Starsha ValentinePhone: 202-462-6272
March 10 - 11, 2015uv.eb West 2015
Location: Redondo Beach, CaliforniaContact: RadTechPhone: 240-643-0517Website: www.radtech.org
March 10 - 12, 2015Middle East Coatings Show 2015Location: Cairo International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Egypt
March 15 - 19, 2015CORROSION 2015Location: Dallas Convention Center Dallas, TX, U.S.Contact: CaLae McDermottPhone: 281-228-6263Email: [email protected]: events.nace.org
April 6 - 9, 2015Gulf Coating 2015Location: Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaVenue: Riyadh International Convention & Exhibition CenterPhone: 202-2270 3584
April 12 - 15, 2015Southern Society for Coatings Technology 2015 Annual Technical MeetingLocation: West Palm Beach Marriott, West Palm Beach, FLContact: SSCTWebsite: www.ssct.org
April 21 - 23, 2015European Coatings Show 2015Location: Nuremberg, GermanyVenue: Exhibition Centre NurembergWebsite: www.european-coatings-show.com
May 12 - 13, 2015Asia Coatings CongressLocation: Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamVenue: Windsor Plaza HotelContact: Fan LandersPhone: + 44 (0) 1737 855078Email: [email protected] CW
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Axalta Coating Systems launched Axalta Automotive Color of the Year 2015 at the SEMA automotive aftermarket trade show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Axalta’s 2015 color of the year, Radiant Red, debuted on the No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet SS driven by four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon.
Gordon and Ray Evernham, three-time NASCAR champion crew chief and host of Velocity’s television show, Americarna, were on hand to help Axalta executives make the announcement at the Axalta Engineered for Speed booth.
“This is an exciting time for both Axalta and our racing team, and I’m glad that I was able to be here to help Axalta reveal its 2015 color of the year,” said Gordon. “It’s going to be great to have it on the No. 24 car this weekend. Fans really seem to like the Brilliant Flames paint scheme that we revealed in January, and I think they will like this Radiant Red variation, too.”
Radiant Red is made from Axalta’s Cromax Mosaic low VOC solvent paint brand. It also contains Axalta’s Vermeera high chroma technology and a sparkle effect. Axalta chose a red hue for several reasons. Axalta’s annual Global Automotive 2014 Color Popularity Report’s research indicates that the color red is a growing trend in the marketplace. It’s been one of the top five most popular colors since 2010 and last year it grew by three percent
“We created this campaign to share our color expertise in an-other format that resonates with both our automotive original equipment manufacturer customers, Refinish and custom paint-ers and the consumer,” said Axalta’s vice president and head of its North American business, Nigel Budden. “Radiant Red is a vibrant, head-turning hue and the No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet SS wears it well.” CW
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