JCT CoatingsTech back issues from October 2006:
Sampling more than gumbo in New Orleans.(Perspective)
Oct 01, 2006; ... As I write this, I'm looking forward to ICE 2006 and FutureCoat! in New Orleans. I hope to see many of you there. If you have picked up COATINGSTECH at ICE 2006 for the first time, welcome! COATINGSTECH was launched in January 2004, as the FSCT member journal. Together with JOURNAL OF ...
Nominees for FSCT Board of Directors.(FSCT News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology has announced the slate of candidates for the three available positions on the 2007 FSCT Board of Directors. Dr. Fritz Walker, Chair of the FSCT Nominating Committee, has noted that three candidates were selected by the Committee, and two ...
Fall FSCT Virtual Learning Conference answers the question, 'smart coatings: what are they?'.(FSCT News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... After attending the upcoming Virtual Learning Conference (VLC) on Thursday, October 26, 2006, participants will be better prepared to answer the question, "Smart Coatings: What Are They?" Serving as instructor for this informative online conference will be Dr. Jamil Baghdachi, Professor, ...
FSCT events.(FSCT News)(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2006 ... For information, contact FSCT, 610.940.0777, fsct@coatingstech.org; www.coatingstech.org. October 2006 26 FSCT VLC: Smart Coatings: What Are They? 2:00-3:30 pm (ET) Instructor: Jamil Baghdachi, Eastern Michigan University 30-31 ICE ...
New members.
Oct 01, 2006 ... FSCT Abeywardena, Palitha -- Epmar Corporation, Santa Fe Springs, CA. Baker, Bruce -- ICT, Cartersville, GA. Ballandra, Vincent -- Hunting Industrial Coatings, Cincinnati, OH. Baratta, Andrew -- Lanco & Harris, Orlando, FL. Belizario, ...
FSCT virtual conference focuses on becoming a preferred supplier in the 21st century: how and why sales will take a leadership role.(FSCT News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... On November 16, 2006, the FSCT continues its popular series of Virtual Learning Conferences with a fascinating program entitled "Becoming a Preferred Supplier in the 21st Century: How and Why Sales Will Take a Leadership Role." Jim Lauria and John Kauke, of Team Chemistry LLC, will serve ...
Society events.(FSCT News)(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2006 ... October 2006 12 "An Overview of Latex Architectural Paint: Some Problems * Some Solutions" Sponsored by the Philadelphia Society Technical Committee The Williamson, Horsham, PA Contact: Cathy Pinto Voice: 856.228.0734 ...
St. Louis Society merges with St. Louis PCA; May meeting examines Crosslinked Ractions.(Society News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The membership of the St. Louis Society for Coatings Technology and the St. Louis Paint & Coatings Association have joined forces to create the new St. Louis Paint & Coatings Society. One of the founding Societies of the FSCT, the St. Louis Society was organized in 1918. ...
New York Society hosts Past-Presidents at May meeting.(Society News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... On May 9, the New York Society for Coatings Technology hosted their annual Past-President's Night. The following 17 Past-Presidents were honored for their contributions (left to right): George Schmitz (2003), David White (2004), Edward Doenges (2001), George Dippold (1978), Armand Stolte ...
Northwestern Society.(Society News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Dr. Stuart Croll (left), of North Dakota State University, accepts a $2000 check from Lowell Wood, Founder of the Lowell Wood Foundation. Also present is Northwest Society President Kristine Halverson, 3M Company. The Lowell Wood Foundation was established to offer financial ...
ICE 2006--Preshow Short Courses.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Two-Day Courses * Monday-Tuesday * October 30-31 EMULSION POLYMERIZATION AND WATERBORNE COATINGS (8:30 am-5:00 pm; Room 343) This course discusses the fundamentals of emulsion polymerization and focuses on water-based coating technology, covering raw ...
SATER workshops--!en espanol!
Oct 01, 2006 ... Como parte de los cursos de la Pre-exposicion ICE 2006, FSCT y SATER (Sociedad Argentina de Tecnologos en Recubrimientos) presentara dos talleres sobre recubrimientos para los visitantes Hispano-parlantes. Un unico costo de inscripcion incluye ambos talleres. El contenido de los cursos ...
ICE 2006--FutureCoat!
Oct 01, 2006 ... Introduced in 2006 is the industry's state-of-the-art technical conference--FutureCoat! This key educational event explores the most innovative methodologies and applications shaping the coatings industry. Presentations by leading industry experts bridge the gap between the latest research ...
FutureCoat! featured presentations.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Keynote Address Wednesday, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm Rooms 243-245 A Tale of Two Perspectives: Hurricanes, Energy, the Consumer and What It Means for Coatings Duncan H. Meldrum, Chief Economist, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. [ILLUSTRATION ...
ICE 2006--exhibitor spotlights.
Oct 01, 2006 ... These presentations featuring the latest product advances will take place in an "auditorium" on the exhibit floor. Those scheduled include: Session #1 Wednesday, November 1 2:30 pm-4:40 pm 2:30-2:40 pm -- Air Products and Chemicals ...
ICE 2006--Poster Sessions.
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Poster Sessions will take place on the Exhibit floor on Wednesday, November 1, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, and Thursday, November 2, 11:00 am to 2:30 pm. Temperature Dependence of Structure Relaxation During Weathering for A Model Topcoat -- Xiaodong Shi, North Dakota State ...
General information.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Airport Louis Armstrong International Airport (504.464.0831) serves the New Orleans region. Flights into and out of New Orleans are operating at or near capacity, so early reservations are strongly encouraged. When flying out of New Orleans, arrive at the airport two hours prior ...
Registration information.
Oct 01, 2006 ... Registration Options Preshow Short Course Registration Registrants receive: * Admittance to the Short Course selected * Course handouts * ICE 2006 conference bag * Full admittance to the ICE Expo Exhibitor! ...
ICE 2006--current exhibitors.
Oct 01, 2006 ... List as of September 15, 2006; Sponsors appear in bold italic. <Pre> Aakash Chemicals 108 Aceto Corporation 920 Acme-Hardesty Co. 846 Acti-Chem ...
ICE 2006--exhibitor booth descriptions.(Company overview)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Aakash Chemicals 108 561 Mitchell Rd. Glendale Heights, IL 60139 Voice: 630.469.3838 Fax: 630.469.2255 www.aakashchemicals.com Aakash Chemicals is a global supplier of organic pigments, iron oxides, dyes, waxes, and ...
Dow Epoxy to invest $200 million in Chinese production and customer service facilities.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, has announced plans to invest more than $200 million in manufacturing and R & D facilities in China over the next five years. As part of the investment, the company plans to build a 100,000 MTPA world-scale ...
Akzo Nobel forms alliance with Feixiang Chemicals.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Akzo Nobel, Arnhem, The Netherlands, has announced that its Surfactants business has formed a strategic alliance with Feixiang Chemicals Company, Ltd., Zhangjiagang, China, a leading specialty surfactant supplier in China. Feixiang Chemicals manufactures various chemical ...
Clariant rebrands pigments/additives.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Clariant, Muttenz, Switzerland, has announced that its Pigments and Additives Division will be rebranding a number of products per its agreement with Sandoz, a company that Clariant spun-off from in 1995. The agreement requires Clariant to change the brand names of its products that start ...
BASF begins to rename Engelhard brand.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... BASF, Florham Park, NJ, has begun to rename Engelhard businesses worldwide as part of integrating the company into the BASF Group. In the United States, a new corporate name has been registered--BASF Catalysts LLC--that will be home to all Engelhard businesses located in the U.S. for the ...
Ciba acquires majority share of MetalFX.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland, has acquired a majority share of MetalFX[R], creator of a print concept that allows thousands of metallic effects to be produced accurately in one run on a five-color press. The company also produces metallic shade ...
Vertellus Specialties to expand Greensboro facility.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Vertellus Specialties, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, has announced plans to expand its existing Greensboro, NC, facility. Vertellus is a new specialty chemicals company formed through the combination of Reilly Industries' Morflex, Inc. and Rutherford Chemicals LLC CasChem operating units. ...
Materials Research launches Entrepreneurship Challenge.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Materials Research Society (MRS), Warrendale, PA, has announced its second MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge, an international competition that pairs professional materials scientists, engineers, and students with business school students to develop concepts for materials-based start-up ...
Flowserve establishes new service center in California.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Flowserve Corp., Dallas, TX, has established a new Flowserve Quick Response Center (QRC) in Orland, CA. It replaces the former QRC that was located in Chico, CA. The new QRC facility is a fully equipped sales and service center that provides localized customer service, maintenance, repair, ...
Dow closes LDPE facility in Canada.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, has closed its Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) production facility in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. The plant was closed in early September 2006. "The closing of our LDPE facility in Sarnia was a difficult decision, but due to the suspension of ...
Specialty Coating Systems opens facility in Costa Rica.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Specialty Coating Systems, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, has opened a new Parylene coating facility in Heredia, Costa Rica. The 8,000 square-foot facility, located in the Global Park Free Zone, is the company's first in Costa Rica and the 10th location ...
AMT opens regional office in Texas.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Orion, MI, has opened a regional office in San Antonio, TX. The office has been established to support the company's growing southwest U.S. market. It will be headed by Crystal Parrott, who ...
Behr announces 2005 award recipients.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Behr Process Corp., Santa Ana, CA, has announced the 2005 recipients of its annual awards recognition program. Univar has been named Partner of the Year and BASF has received ...
Velsicol forms joint venture in China.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Velsicol Chemical Corporation, Rosemont, IL, has formed a joint venture with Wuhan Youji Industries Co. Ltd. to produce and sell benzoate esters and polymeric plasticizers in the Asian market and other areas. The venture, which will have a production facility in ...
Price adjustments.(Business & Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... BASF Florham Park, NJ Products: 1,4 Butanediol, Tetrahydrofuran, PolyTHF polytetramethylene-ethergly-col, Gamma-Butyrolactone, N-Methylpyrrolidone, and NEOL Neopentylglycol Increase: $0.07/lb list and off-list prices in U.S., Canada, and Mexico Effective: ...
Wolstenholme International Limited.(Distributor News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Metaflake Limited, Fife, Scotland, has named Wolstenholme International Limited, Lancashire, UK, as the global distributor for the ...
BASF Coatings AG.(Distributor News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... BASF Coatings AG, Muenster, Germany, has announced that its Glasurit[R] brand of automotive refinish ...
Sartomer Company.(Distributor News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Sartomer Company, Exton, PA, has announced that J.H. Calo Company, Westbury, NY, has been appointed as a distributor of Sartomer's Wingtack[R] resin ...
GWC.(Distributor News)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Michelman, Cincinnati, OH, has announced two new European sales agents for its specialty coatings business ...
Specialty Polymers, Inc.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Specialty Polymers, Inc., Woodburn, OR, has promoted Tom Sennhenn to the position of technical director of the company. A member of the Southern Society and the FSCT, Mr. Sennhenn was previously the technical manager at Specialty Polymers' Chester, SC, plant. As ...
Columbia Paint & Coatings.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Columbia Paint & Coatings, Spokane, WA, has announced that the company's Board of Directors has elected Julie Shiflett to the position of vice president-finance and ...
Plasticolors, Inc.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Ben Arnold has been promoted to the position of market development manager by Plasticolors, Inc., Ashtabula, OH. Mr. Arnold is a member of the Cleveland Society and the FSCT. In his new role, he will be responsible for identifying new ...
International Paint LLC.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... International Paint LLC, Houston, TX, has appointed Tim Riley as market manager for the High Value Infrastructure markets throughout North America. In this position, he will help to direct the company's long-term efforts to increase intumescent fireproofing and high performance coatings ...
Acme-Hardesty Co.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Acme-Hardesty Co., Blue Bell, PA, has named Ira Katuran director of sourcing. In this role, Mr. Katuran will be responsible for building relationships with the company's key suppliers and working on strategic sourcing capabilities. He was previously the president of Nupro Industries. ...
Applied Manufacturing Technologies.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Orion, MI, has announced the appointment of Chris Lohr as regional sales manager for the ...
Sartomer Company.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Sartomer Company, Exton, PA, has promoted Timothy R. Lineberry to the position of plant manager for the company's facility in Chatham, ...
Daikin America.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Daikin America, Orangeburg, NY, has announced a number of new sales personnel. Graham Mac Innis will serve as technical sales representative for the U.S. West Coast. He will be responsible for both fluoropolymers and fluoroelastomers products. Rick Brenneman has been appointed senior ...
Ribelin Sales, Inc.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Ribelin Sales, Inc., Garland, TX, has announced the addition of two sales representatives that will cover the Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas areas. Karna Nilsson has over 20 years of chemical ...
Association for Manufacturing Excellence.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), Arlington Heights, IL, has announced Ralph Keller as its new president. Mr. Keller has worked in the ...
International Barrier Technology.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... International Barrier Technology, Vancouver, BC, has appointed Craig Roberts to the Board of ...
Inter-Society Color Council.(People in the Industry)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), Reston, VA, has announced the election of its officers and directors. The officers will serve two-year terms (2006-2008) and the directors will serve three-year terms (2006-2009). Robert Buckley, Xerox Imaging & Services, has become president after ...
John Prinz.(Obituaries)
Oct 01, 2006 ... John Prinz, retired member of the FSCT and Los Angeles Society, passed away on June 16, 2006. He was 69. A resident of Pasadena, CA, Mr. Prinz was ...
Carl Engelhardt.(Obituaries)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Carl Engelhardt passed away on August 26, 2006, in Clearwater, FL. He was 94. A long-time paint and coatings chemist, he retired as ...
Herb Hillman, author of 'Humbug from Hillman,' dies at 93.(Obituary)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Herbert E. Hillman, a 50-year member of the FSCT and Honorary Member of the New York Society, passed away at his home in Whitingham, VT, on September 10, 2006. He was 93. Creator of "Humbug from Hillman," the long-time column in FSCT's JOURNAL OF COATINGS TECHNOLOGY, Mr. Hillman ...
Helping the community keep its cool.(Coatings Xperience)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Coatings impact our lives on many levels and on a daily basis. Residents in one neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA, got a first-hand demonstration of just how much coatings can improve living conditions. Philadelphia-based Rohm and Haas Company's Cool Block project in the Bridesburg section ...
Optically variable pigments from dielectric layers and their applications.(Technology Today)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Over the last decade, several new pigments made from optical layers of metals and dielectric layers, which fit the general term of optically variable pigments (OVPs), have been commercialized. These pigments generate high chroma and color travel, dramatic changes in color at different ...
Geographical methods for modeling and understanding product usage and operating environment.(Technology Today)
Oct 01, 2006; ... Understanding how and under what conditions customers use products is critical to making sound engineering design decisions. Traditionally, new generation products are often based on prior designs and test specifications that may or may not subsume the range of conditions in a given set of ...
Pigment market still performing ... but challenges may impact intensity of growth.(Market Update)(Company overview)
Oct 01, 2006; ... The market-driven desires of the consumer have far reaching impact throughout the paint and coatings supply chain. In the automotive, electronic, household appliance, and other markets, product differentiation is being achieved through the introduction of more varied and intense colors, ...
Application and growth of UV curing technology in China.(Market Update)
Oct 01, 2006; ... This article highlights the markets for radiation-curable products in China as the Chinese market has been growing rapidly in recent years. It summarizes the input of around 122 leading companies, including 68 that produce raw materials, 105 that manufacture UV products, and 14 that supply ...
4th International Symposium on Service Life Prediction slated for December 3-8, 2006, in Key Largo.(Meetings Update)(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2006 ... The 4th International Symposium on Service Life Prediction: Global Perspectives will be held December 3-8, 2006, at the Sheraton Beach Resort in Key Largo, FL. The symposium will feature technical conferences Monday through Friday, Poster Sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday ...
Calendar.(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2006 ... October 2006 17-18 5th Woodcoatings Congress: Enhancing Service Life Prague, Czech Republic Paint Research Association (PRA) Voice: +44 (0)20 8487 0800 www.pra-world.com/conferences 29 "Wood Coatings and Substrates" ...
High solids resin.(New Products)
Oct 01, 2006 ... CVC Specialty Chemicals has developed EPALLOY[R] 7200X90, a high solids solvent-diluted resin for use in fast cure, low viscosity, and low temperature low-VOC ...
Water-repellent Silane.(New Products)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Dow Corning[R] Z-2306 Silane, a high purity isobutyltriethoxysilane, has been introduced by Dow Corning. It can be used to formulate water repellent coating products that protect concrete structures from water absorption and chlorine ion ingress. When diluted with an ...
Foam paint brushes.(New Products)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Poly-Brush[R] Foam Brushes have been developed by JEN Manufacturing, Inc. The brushes feature a patented absorbent foam with a beveled edge that is supported by an internal polyethylene stiffener that is cut to precise specifications, secured to the ...
Adhesion promoter.(New Products)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Degussa AG has added Dynasylan[R] 2201 EQ to its product portfolio. Dynasylan 2201 EQ is a ureidofunctional silane adhesion promoter that has been designed with minimal levels of certain by-products such as ethyl carbamate (less than ...
Concrete flooring system.(New Products)
Oct 01, 2006 ... Valspar Flooring has introduced Flowfresh, a new hygienic polyurethane concrete flooring system. It is designed for operations and facilities where both cleanliness and durability are important, such as food and pharmaceutical processing plants and heavy industrial sites and warehouses ....