High-speed planting methods have fueled demand for seed-flow lubricants. These formulations improve seed planting by reducing static electricity and/or moisture that causes the seeds to 'bridge'.

When a global producer of industrial coating resins and additives sought to upgrade its aging Distributed Control System (DCS), the solution involved utilizing a flexible, reliable, modern DCS that could be quickly integrated with existing production.

Electro-deposition (ED) has proven its benefit as a unique application technology, resulting in several manufacturers installing ED lines in their paint shops. This is mostly due to a distinguishing feature of this technique, namely the throwing power. 

It can sometimes feel like fluids are a bottleneck, restricting production performance. Often the answer won’t lie in costly chemical alterations to the fluid itself, but simply a better understanding and control of the factors affecting performance.

Formulators should use technology to track down the rheological sweet spot for their products and see the lab as a source of knowledge and collaboration. The resulting data will set research projects off on the right path and deliver huge savings for R&D, the company, the customer and maybe even the planet.

This enhanced robotic system can paint and apply custom design elements to extremely complex body surfaces such as vertical or A and C pillars, fully automatically and without masking.

A main theme at the ACS was sustainability and the circular economy. This article provides a snapshot of just some of the technology that PCI learned about.

Part 2 of this article tackles four more issues you may be facing when controlling coating temperature with electric heaters in your fluid dispensing system.

A producer of architectural wood trim gained visibility into paint consumption at its facility by installing a cloud-based flow measurement and control system that provides accurate and real-time data on paint usage, flow rates, density and other parameters from a computer or smart device.