While artist paints have been the focus of many standards for fine art materials, a new ASTM standard is devoted to something that gets used before the paint: acrylic dispersion ground, a liquid applied as a coating to prepare surfaces for paint.
A proposed new ASTM International standard will improve the accuracy and usefulness of radiometry-related uncertainty estimates in a wide range of fast-developing solar renewable energy applications, such as system performance and acceptance testing, resource assessment and solar energy system design engineering.
Manufacturers and developers of architectural coatings will be the primary users of a new ASTM International standard, ASTM D 7786, Test Method for Determining Enamel Holdout.
Dunn-Edwards Corp. is one of 30 building product manufacturers chosen for a two-month pilot program to test and improve the draft Health Product Declaration (HPD) open standard.
Sumter Coatings Inc. (SCI) agreed to pay a $55,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a series of hazardous waste violations at its facility in Sumter, SC.
A new ASTM International standard provides a test method for measuring volatiles from acrylate resins, which will allow suppliers to list emissions information on material safety data sheets.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that its bromate analysis solutions are fully compliant with the new ISO standard for bromate analysis by ion chromatography (IC) titled, Water quality - Determination of dissolved bromate - Method using ion chromatography (IC) and post column reaction (PCR) (ISO 11206:2011(E)).
