Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 2 Issue 8

Recent progress in powder coatings

Americus

The Federation of Societies for Paint Technology authorised Levinson to do a study on powder coating, electrocoating and radiation. In an article [Journal of Paint Technology…

Plastic powders as metal coatings

G.E. Bond, J.N. Ralston

Many of you may already be familiar with the term ‘powder coating’. For those of you who are not, I would like to describe the term briefly. Powder coating is a relatively new…

No ashes at Four Ashes

Initially carbon black was put into motor tyres as a colouring so that one particular make could be distinguished from its competitors. However, these black tyres were found to…

Colour measuring instruments

At a recent conference called to present and launch an entirely new range of instrumentation for the measurement of colour and the assessment of colour difference, some…

The protection of joinery

The Building Research Station at Garston recently held a one day seminar on Developments in the protection of joinery. The country is currently spending in the region of £90…

Industry

Further to the announcement at the end of 1972, agreement has now been reached between Akzo Coatings of Holland and Burmah Industrial Products for a close cooperation between…

Publications

Three leaflets have been released recently by BTP. The first is on their Tioxide pigments, and is designed as a guide to their selection and use. Several pages of tables indicate…

Equipment

Versatile machines capable of filling ½pt to 1gal containers automatically with foaming and non‐foaming liquids and equipped with a remote filling probe to fill up to 45gal…

Materials

Intended for use in vinyl finishes to improve pigment wetting, Nuodex NA is a liquid organo‐metallic dispersing agent for non‐aqueous systems. It is a clear or slightly hazy amber…