Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 17 Issue 1

Comment

We had just got over the shock of seeing the demise of the well respected name of “Berger Industrial Coatings”, now trading as Herberts (see this page, September 1987), when the…

Studies on polyesters modified rosin

(Mrs) Rakhshinda Panda, Himadri Panda

Considerable effort has been made by this Laboratory and industry to make polyfunctional derivatives of rosin through the introduction of different groups into the resin acid…

ICS and the development of colour management systems

What is colour? The definition in dictionaries is as follows: A property whereby bodies have different appearances to the eye through surfact reflection or absorption of rays of…

The colour matching of inks and translucent materials

P.V.G. Wall

The ink industry is as old as the written word. It touches our lives from the newspapers we read, the advertising we see, the carpet we walk on, the car fascia boards with which…

CL600 colour measurement systems

Tristimulus colorimetry started in the nineteenth century. Young discovered the fact that the eyes were susceptible to three colours, red, green and blue and Clark Maxwell did…

Equipment

Mixing of heavy pigments and viscous materials such as greases and paints, is facilitated by the new multiple intercallating blade stirrer.

Industry

A series of seminars on the use of epoxide resins in ambient‐temperature cure applications has been staged jointly in Germany by Dow Chemical Europe SA, Anchor Chemical Group plc…

Publications

The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology has announced the recent publication of “Automotive Coatings,” the eighth monograph in its continuing Series on Coatings…