Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 1 Issue 8

Comment: Pollution control

An international conference on Pollution Control in the finishing, chemical and plastics industries is being organised by Product Finishing, a sister journal to Pigment and Resin…

The behaviour and use of cobalt 2‐ethylhexanoate

R.J. Goodman

Cobalt compounds have been used to accelerate the drying of paints, such as those containing linseed oil, since the turn of the century. Coffey was one of the first people to…

Polymer emulsions for wallpapers

J. Bax, B.J. Sauntson

Synthetic polymers were first introduced to the wallpaper trade about twenty‐five years ago. Until that time natural polymers, such as casein and starch, were the only suitable…

Recent progress in electrocoating

Americus

Scarcely a decade has passed since the paint industry embraced the concept of electrocoating in its modern sense. Its acceptance has been a gratifying one simply because it has…

Powder handling equipment: Extensions to the Kek range

Recently the Macclesfield‐based machinery manufacturers Kek Ltd. held an open day. The purpose was to mark the opening of extensions to the factory, increasing the production and…

Equipment

The high speed capper/lidder from Albro is now available with the hopper and selector unit positioned above the capping mechanism as an integral part of the machine. Designed to…

Industry

A £400,000 extension has just been completed at the Vinyl Products plant at Carshalton, Surrey. The main equipment and control systems are to the design of their own engineers…

Materials

Croda Polymers have extended their range of Crodalex textured surface coatings by the introduction of C.76, a stoving finish based on alkyd/MF resin. It is said to provide a…