Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 21 Issue 4

Comment

How's this for a really optimistic comment on the U.S. market for OEM coatings:“ ‘Up!’ is the word for the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) coatings market over the next five…

Fluoropolymer coatings

A.K. Khan, M.S. Saxena, S. Chandra

The research of Swarts in Belgium in the early nineties underlines organic fluorine chemistry and the industry that has grown around it. Swarts and co‐workers studied the reaction…

Oleochemicals and the processing of polymeric resins — Part 3

Edgar S. Lower

An investigation has been carried out of the catalytic action of iron dipalmitate on the polymerisation of styrene, and of lauryl mercaptan and oleic acid, and polystyrene having…

High‐accuracy sample‐preparation equipment

A new machine for producing samples of paint, varnishes and other surface coatings under precisely controlled conditions, has been developed by R K Print‐Coat Instruments Ltd,…

Materials

Now being marketed in the UK by Cetema Ltd are the Nafturan 2000 series of potting resins for protecting electrical and electronic components against humidity. The Nafturan 2000…

Equipment

The new Mastersizer X, recently launched by Malvern Instruments, is an extended specification version of its Mastersize family of laser diffraction particle size analysers.

Industry

The video recorder has become such an everyday part of our lives that it can be difficult to appreciate just how advanced is the technology that goes into it. The casing too is a…

Publications

An informative and well illustrated new brochure titled “Portasilo Pneumatic Conveying” is now available from Portasilo Bulk Handling Systems.