Meeting the demands of your customer is always challenging. Meeting the requirements of a premium car company such as BMW can be overwhelming. But apparently no challenge is too big for automotive components supplier Plastic Onmium and its team of industry experts.
The Green Solution for Protecting Automobile Bodies Before Delivery to CustomerNovacel, a leader in surface protection films, has introduced NOVAGUARD® 9377. This opaque white plastic film is designed to protect
As one of the world’s largest manufacturers of color cards and color systems, Chicago-based Color Communications Inc. (CCI) specializes in exact duplication of the colors consumers see when they apply paints and stains to the interior and exteriors of their homes. True to its reputation as an innovator, CCI has recently employed an X-Rite inexpensive in-line, non-contact spectrophotometer that provides laboratory accuracy in reading colors on the factory floor
The agrichemical, folpet, is shown to be an effective fungicide for use in a broad range of plastics including wood-filled plastics. Performance is evaluated through a tiered product development program utilizing: 1. Petri dish and environmental chamber accelerated laboratory testing of weathered samples and 2. the exterior exposure of panels or full-scale constructs (e.g., test decks). The action mechanism of folpet, a trichloro-methylthio-adduct, N-(trichloromethylthio)phthalimide, is discussed herein. The folpet active ingredient is additionally compounded into several physical forms that include resin and lubricant-pellet concentrates and granules for ease of processing into plastics and wood-filled plastic composites based on polyolefins, PVC and other resins. Data are presented that demonstrate protection from microbial defacement and deterioration at use-levels of 0.3 – 0.5% and treatment costs of cents per board-foot of composite without significant impact on physical properties. In addition, thermostability data for folpet and flexural properties of the finished wood plastic composite are presented. Air monitoring during extrusion operations shows that folpet-based products are easily handled safely in the work environment. A manufacturing case study is also presented.
Adhesion of chlorinated polyolefin (CPO) and topcoat on various types of thermoplastic polyolefins (TPO) at three different baking temperatures, 180 ºF (82 ºC), 200 ºF (93 ºC), and 220 ºF (104 ºC), was investigated using a gasoline soak test. The results showed that co-monomer in the TPO and the base used in the topcoat were critical factors in adhesion. Also, a chemical mechanism for adhesion at the interface of topcoat-CPO and CPO-TPO was proposed. Results of preliminary study on chlorinated model compounds are also reported.
Consider the Microtron, which has been developed with the specific task of “sub-micron grinding” in order to produce better-quality products within the coating industry.
Fluorinated materials in many forms are used in coatings formulations. For example, fluorosurfactants are used as wetting, flow and leveling aids due to their low surface tension among other attributes. Fluoropolymers are legendary for their robustness to most forms of assault in addition to providing very low coefficients of friction and dielectric constants/refractive indices.
In the case of a large batch of high-value product, such as inks, coatings or fumed silica slurries, agglomerates can render the product useless, or greatly increase production time by creating the need for a grinding or pulverization process.
On Nov. 21-23, the 12th CHINACOAT was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. In total, 24,412 people attended, with 10,950 of them registering on site. Attendance was up 4% over the last event held in Guangzhou in 2006. A total of 796 exhibitors from 31 countries/regions participated.
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