Paint and Coating Equipment

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The story of tinting is not just about colorants and their ingredients; it is also about accurate dosing.

An updated version of the Newson Gale Earth-Rite® static electricity monitoring system provides an enhanced margin of safety when Type C FIBCs or similar static-dissipative containers are used to transfer bulk powdered and other solid materials in hazardous area applications.

On March 5-6, PCI Publisher Donna Campbell and I had the opportunity to attend Bühler Inc.’s Open House and Technology Seminar in Mahwah, NJ.

Radiation-cured coatings offer great advantages; numerous applications in the wood, paper, overprint varnish, optics, electronics, plastics and inks markets realize benefits from the reduced energy consumption, environmental impact, waste generation, smaller footprint, and faster cure times offered by this technology.

The degree of pigment dispersion affects color strength, gloss, brightness and transparency, as well as the rheological properties of the system.

The new DXN portable ultrasonic flow and heat meter is built on innovative hybrid metering technology that automatically switches between transit time and Doppler modes as needed.

A new 34-inch sanitary stainless steel pin mill, CIM-34-SS provides coarse-to-fine grinding of friable powders, flakes and granules into controlled particle sizes.

The Moyno® Metering Pump includes enhanced pumping elements and integral VFD/motor controls that expand the scope of metering applications and enhance economical and efficient performance when metering low-flow liquids in a wide range of processing applications, including dosing, sampling and metering.

The Vibroscreen® two-deck sanitary classifier separates up to six tons per hour of bulk solid material into three fractions.

The new Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer streamlines method development, automates measurement and continuously verifies data quality.