6th international coatings for plastics Symposium Overview
The technical sessions included a Monday morning plenary address by Dr. Lauren W. Hill, speaking on Property/Property Relationships of Coatings for Plastics, and a Tuesday keynote by Dr. David Bauer of The Ford Motor Co., speaking on Combining Failure Models, Environmental Load Distributions and Customer Perception of Failure to Generate Real World Durability Requirements. A Monday luncheon talk by James W. Carlisle of Rohm and Haas addressed Global Products or Local Supply for Automotive Coatings for Plastics.
Included in the technical sessions were topics that addressed adhesion, formulation, environmental standards for coatings, and surface damage resistance, e.g., scratch/mar and chip durability. A sampling of the industry experts presenting papers included Dr. Phil Yaneff of DuPont Performance Coatings, Migration of Reactable UVA and HALS in Automotive Plastic Coatings and Their Impact on Durability; Shawn Jeffers of DaimlerChrysler Corp., Durability Comparison of Fascia Material Systems; Dr. Vincent Jardret of MTS Systems Corp., Visco-elastic and Visco-plastic Analysis of Scratch Resistance of Organic Coatings; Dr. Daniel Kaute of PlasmaTreat North America, Atmospheric Pressure Plasma - Enabling Technology for Achieving the "Compact" and Cost Effective Paint Line of the Future; and Brian Hanrahan of Kyowa Hakko USA, Chemical Resistance of Self-Crosslinking Emulsion Coatings for Interior Plastics. Kevin A. Williams of the Eastman Chemical Co. received the Best Paper Award for his paper/presentation entitled Adhesion and Gasoline Resistance Performance Properties of Chlorinated and Non-Chlorinated Polyolefin Adhesion Promoter Blends for TPO Substrates.