The Dow Chemical Co. has announced the startup of production at the company’s 41,000-metric-ton-per-year epoxy resin plant in China. The facility will produce solid epoxy resins for use primarily in powder coatings, solid solution epoxy resins for marine and protective liquid coatings and brominated epoxy resins for the production of electrical laminates. Markets for those end uses have experienced double-digit growth rates in China, the company says. The plant, near Shanghai, will supply resins to markets in China, other Asian countries and Australia. Dow also operates epoxy resin plants in Korea and Japan.
Epcon Industrial Systems LP (The Woodlands, TX) completed a turnkey order from the U.S. military for a drive-through paint finishing system that includes a wash-and-dry booth, two paint finishing booths and a paint storage compound. The custom system was manufactured at Epcon’s manufacturing facility in The Woodlands and then installed by Epcon.