Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 20 Issue 2

Comment

It is interesting to note — some might even say surprising — that the European radiation curing market is larger, more dynamic and more innovative than its US and Japanese…

X‐ray diffraction and ultrasonics velocity measurements of esterified maleic and fumaric resins

S. Swarup

The esterified maleic and fumaric resins have been studied by X‐ray diffraction. Their diffraction halos have been subjected to a Fourier analysis for the first time and the…

Oleochemicals in resin production and usage: Part 1

Edgar S. Lower

Oleochemicals are materials not derived from petroleum, but from the main chemical components of animal, marine and vegetable oils, glycerides, and include the fatty acids…

Effect of fluorenated monomer treatment on some physical and mechanical properties of wood: ‘Treatment of natural wood with a water repellent copolymer’. Part 1

F.A. Abdel‐Mohdy, S.M. El‐Sawy

A water repellent fluorenated monomer was used in a mixture of monomers for treatment of pine wood samples, using both, impregnation and graft copolymerization methods. This…

SALT will be flexible friend to UK coatings industry

A dramatic laser light show has launched a new £10 million Shell Chemicals UK epoxy resins plant in Cheshire.

Paint system improves production flow

A new paint system, custom designed to meet the production requirements of MF Industrial's new £1 million‐plus spray plant for construction machines at Old Trafford, Manchester…

Equipment

OPAL — Organic Pollutant Alarm Immediate detection of volatile organic materials in water and effluent is now possible using the new OPAL — Organic Pollution Alarm — from…

Industry

A plant for the manufacture of a wide range of NeoCrest polyester resins — developed specifically to meet the needs of powder coatings — was opened recently in Waalwijk, The…