February 2012 VOLUME 28, NUMBER 2
INSIDE New Waterborne Technologies
Paint
Coatings Industry
Using DOE to Develop Coatings Advancing Pump Technologies
Globally Serving Liquid and Powder Formulators and Manufacturers
Architectural Coatings
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CONTENTS PA I N T & C O AT I N G S I N D U S T RY, V O L U M E 2 8 , N U M B E R 2
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FEATURES 24 Advancing Pump Technologies in Coatings,
Wilden Pump & Engineering Co. 28 New Antimicrobial Meets Performance and
Low-VOC Requirements, Dow Microbial Control 35 Applying Statistical Design of Experiments
to VAE-Based Coatings Development, Forbo Bonding Systems 42 Defoamers and Wetting Agents for Waterborne
Alkyd Coatings, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
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ONLINE FEATURES www.pcimag.com Polyaspartic Gelcoat Technology Makes a Splash in Water Park Industry, Bayer MaterialScience LLC An Approach to Setting Standard Criteria for Green Additives, BYK-Chemie GmbH Intelligent Data Logging Operations, CAS DataLoggers, Inc. New High-Tech Microcorrosion-Inhibiting Coating, Cortec Corporation Simplifying Entangled Polymer Synthesis, Malvern Instruments Ltd.
DEPARTMENTS 6 Viewpoint 8 Industry News 14 Calendar of Events 16 Company News 22 Names in the News 52 Finishing Today News 56 Products 60 Classifieds 62 Advertiser Index
54 Chemically Bonded Phosphate Ceramics,
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BUSINESS TOOLS 58 Supplier Showcases
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Innovation and Technology Abound at International Auto Show in Detroit The world’s top automakers unveiled their latest models at the recent North American International Auto Show in Detroit. During the press preview days, Associate Editor Karen Parker and I had the opportunity to meet with Paul Czornij, Technical Manager, Color Excellence Group, and Stacey Russell, Marketing Communications Manager, BASF. BASF’s automotive coatings portfolio includes OEM and automotive refinish coatings. The company’s modern paint processes, combined with its special-effect pigments and technologies, result in a full-breadth of color solutions and development capabilities. Innovation and technology were clearly the focus at the company’s 4,500-squarefoot supplier exhibit. Czornij explained how BASF’s researchers have combined new technology with current trends to develop unique automotive colors, gloss levels and textures for the 2015 model year. Color trends point to a desire to go back to our roots, and are exhibited in BASF’s colors, which have a Native American feel with turquoise, earth tones and non metallics. Another trend is with pastels. Silver, grey, black and white are popular automotive colors around the world. The popularity of these elegant, sophisticated colors is linked to the surge in technology seen in so many other consumer areas. BASF has introduced a twist, however, by adding a hint of color to these, giving metallic colors with a splash of pastel tints. In addition to developing new colors, BASF researchers have focused on the company’s ColorFuse™ technology, an advanced coating technology that provides a highly efficient, integrated painting process via the integration, or “fusion,” of the traditional basecoat and clearcoat into a single coating layer. Using technical advancements, a coating system was developed with excellent appearance, physical properties and outdoor durability. Using this technology reduces material usage and lowers VOC emissions. We found the most interesting element of the BASF showcase to be a display showing the company’s Imager technology. With this technique, images can be embedded within the coating, using the effect of a magnetic field to generate shapes, words and the like. Coatings can then contain a fresh or personalized look, which arises from flaked effect pigments orienting to form the desired image. Depending on the strength of the orientation, the image comes from the difference in light reflection from certain viewing angles. The Auto Show is always an exciting event here in Detroit. It is great to be able to see all of the innovative ideas for the automotive coatings of the future!
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INDUSTRY NEWS PPG Shows the Power of Coatings at North American International Auto Show companies reduce vehicle weight. It also DETROIT – As the North American International reduces OEM energy consumption and CO2 Auto Show in Detroit shifted into full gear, the buzz in the industry continued around fuel effiand VOC emissions. The product is being ciency, CAFE standards and how car companies used in the United States and the Asiaare responding to demands for more sustainable Pacific region and is slated to be rolled out vehicles. At a press conference prior to the show’s in Europe and South America in 2012. opening, representatives from PPG showed how Another product showcased by Knavish was the company’s innovations help improve many the company’s new low-bake coating system parts of a car, from environmentally friendly elecfor plastic parts, such as bumpers and fascia. trocoat to more compact paint systems. The new one-component paint system allows Cindy Niekamp, Senior Vice President, Automanufacturers to eliminate a booth in the motive OEM Coatings, kicked off the press conpaint process, offering a less complex process, ference with a discussion of PPG’s commit- PPG’s Cindy Niekamp. lower energy costs and improved appearance. ment to innovation. Niekamp noted that the Rick Zoulek, General Manager, Industrial company has been awarded an R&D 100 Award nine times in Coatings USCA, discussed the company’s zinc-rich primer with the last 14 years and has received an Automotive News PACE Framecoat®. The primer facilitates OEM designs with reduced Award six times in the last 10 years. And while she presented vehicle weight. Its superior corrosion resistance allows for thincars at the Auto Show that feature PPG colors, including the ner gauge steel, which reduces vehicle weight, helping designChevrolet Spark’s Techno Pink and the Dodge Dart’s Redline, ers meet CAFE mpg requirements. she also pointed out that PPG provides more than color to the During his presentation, Knavish gave a glimpse into automotive industry, helping car companies achieve efficiency, what’s in the R&D pipeline for automotive coatings. New energy conservation and light-weighting. projects include OEM coatings for lightweight materials that Tim Knavish, Vice President, Automotive OEM Coat- provide improved appearance, cycle times and durability. ings, introduced Enviro-Prime ® 7000 Electrocoat, which Coatings are being designed for materials such as carbon fiber offers improved corrosion protection while reducing and fiberglass substrates, aluminum, and high-strength steel. excess. The new product offers 20-30 percent exterior The company is also working on adapting a lightweight 2K usage reduction with the same coverage for recessed/ adhesive, which was originally designed for wind turbine interior areas. This optimized material usage helps car blades, for automotive lightweight materials.
Study Indicates Slowdown in EU Alkyd Resins Market LONDON – According to a new BAC report recently published by MarketPublishers.com, demand for acrylic resins in the European Union (EU) is trending downward. In 2010, the demand amounted to 471,800 tons. Within the 2006-2010 period, alkyd resins consumption decreased by 30 percent. The decline is caused by the economic challenges of the last few years and the decline in demand for acrylic coatings in favor of more environmentally friendly materials. EU producers are working mainly to cover the domestic market, while export supplies share 7-10 percent in total output. Therefore, a decrease in demand domestically leads to a decline in domestic production. Germany covers 37 percent of EU production and consumption of alkyd resins. The other significant Western European manufacturing facilities are concentrated in Italy and France. For additional information about the report, Alkyd Resins: European Union Market Outlook 2011 and Forecast to 2016, visit http://marketpublishers.com.
EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information WASHINGTON, DC – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available to the public hundreds of studies on 8
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chemicals that had been treated as confidential business information (CBI). The move is part of EPA’s plan to make public the chemicals that are not entitled to CBI status. In 2010, EPA issued new guidance outlining the agency’s plans to deny confidentiality claims for chemical identities in health and safety studies under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that are determined to not be entitled to CBI status. EPA has been reviewing CBI claims in new and existing TSCA filings containing health and safety studies. Consistent with the guidance, the agency will request that the submitter voluntarily relinquish the CBI claims and make the studies available to the public. EPA also challenged the chemical industry to make available information that was previously classified as CBI. To date, more than 35 companies have agreed to review previously submitted filings containing health and safety studies and determine if any CBI claims may no longer be necessary. The newly available information can be found under a new “declassified tab” using EPA‘s Chemical Data Access Tool.
U.S. Coatings Consumption Worth $23 Billion in 2011 ELMWOOD PARK, NJ – According to a soon-to-be-released study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, U.S. consumption of coatings in 2011 is projected to be 1.4 million
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