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This article examines the Air Barrier Heat Seal, an advanced paint-finishing oven technology that addresses many of the complex oven requirements to achieve optimal oven performance.

Coatings for wood are a well-established coatings segment that offers a huge variety of substrates, applications and coatings technologies.

Although a very simple device, the HSD is often misused or misapplied. The following outlines the basic design parameters of an HSD.

An interview with Roger Moo, Senior Marketing Manager

for Coatings, Dow Latex, Pacific Area

In today's high-demand world, protective surface treatment applications are an essential tool in preserving functionality as well as a product appearance.

The ultimate goal for each end user/chemist/formulator is to achieve a perfect blend of physical properties from their finished formulations. For many applications, there is an increasing need for extended service life and enhanced physical properties to reach greater performance levels.

Protection of metal substrates from harsh chemicals and/or conditions associated with exterior exposure is an important and rapidly growing coatings market.

With the recent completion of a comprehensive, two-year expansion program, Unimin reports it has increased its MINEX® functional filler production capacity by 50% and is now well positioned to satisfy the growing market for this material.

For the third time, the "intelligent," functional coating systems of the future took center-stage in Berlin on June 7 and 8, 2004.

Raman spectroscopy is a non-destructive technique that is finding increasing application for polymer analysis.