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Powder coating medium-density fiberboard: A new approach to success
Powder Coatings Magazine

This article presents a new approach on how to powder coat medium-density fiberboard [MDF] successfully. Most important is the right combination of powder, MDF, coating line, and product specifications. The article discusses each of these four factors in detail and how they influence each other. It includes information from studies showing that MDF powder coating can be done very successfully when the powder reactivity matches the melting and curing conditions within the powder coating line and vice versa

Price-Fixing Investigations Sweep Chemical Industry
John R. Wilke

Dow Jones News Service via NewsEdge Corporation : A two-year-old price-fixing probe that began in an obscure corner of the chemical industry has snowballed into a series of international investigations involving industry giants such as Dow Chemical Co. (DOW), DuPont Co. (DD) and Bayer AG (BAY), The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday

Silver Bullet
Matthew Little, Products Finishing magazine

Antimicrobial powder coatings - featuring silver as a key antimicrobial ingredient - are raising the powder coating industry to new heights. Ironically, this latest technological advancement has its roots in some of the planet's most ancient cultures. The whole idea sounds like something out of a Michael Crichton novel. At first thought, the notion of using silver to fend-off bacteria seems as alien a concept as bringing back the dinosaurs, traveling through time or

Applications of Vacuum Coating
Donald M. Mattox

Vacuum is an environment where the gas pressure is less than the ambient. A plasma is a gaseous environment in which there are enough ions and electrons for there to be appreciable electrical conductivity. Vacuum coating is the deposition of a film or a coating in a vacuum (or low-pressure plasma) environment. Generally the term is applied to processes that deposit atoms (or molecules) one at a time such as physical vapor deposition (PVD) or low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LP-CVD) processes or plasma-enhanced CVD (PECVD). In PVD processes, the material being deposited comes from the vaporization of a solid or liquid surface

How and Why To Epoxy Paint Your Concrete Slab
Paul Oman

Concrete slab floors are found in nearly all industrial and commercial sites. Should you paint or coat them, or leave them alone? Concrete floors are coated for several reasons. These include: 1) to improve chemical resistance, 2) to prevent the concrete from sweating (epoxies are used for this application, 3) to impart a non-skid surface, 4) to seal the surface from moisture and/or reduce dust, and 5) for appearance sake.In some cases getting a suitable, long term bond between the concrete and the coating can become career or profit destroying task

Large Coating Job Shops
Beverly A. Graves

The results are in, and the shops are bigger and better than ever.Several years ago Products Finishing initiated a survey of large paint/powder coating job shops. We expected it would generate some interest among our readers. It did. However, we found that the information remained pretty much the same each year, so we changed our survey from annual to biennial. The survey answers indicate that nearly every company is growing