Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 4 Issue 1

Comment: Paint industry raw materials conference

On this page in the last three issues we have made several comments on raw material costs in the paint, resins and printing ink industries and referred to the need to look closely…

Photo‐chemistry of pigments. Studies on the mechanism of chalking

S. Peter Pappas, Richard M. Fischer

Studies are presented which demonstrate that: (1) irradiation of titanium and zinc oxide pigments produces singlet oxygen; (2) irradiation of titanium dioxide pigments in water…

U.K.'s first petroleum resins plant

P.J. Rowley

A 10,000 tonne/year petroleum resins plant — the first in the United Kingdom — is now in production at ICl's Wilton Works, Cleveland (formerly Teesside).

10 years experience with polyester coatings on concrete

Almost 15 years ago the first tests were made with polyester coatings on concrete. This resulted in the development of the polyester resin Synresite L 605. In 1962 the first…

Equipment

Lab‐Line Instruments, Inc, 15th Bloomingdale Ave, Melrose Park, Illinois, USA has announced its new six‐position folding Saf‐T‐Shield VI designed to protect the lab worker from…

Materials

A new pellicular column‐packing material, CO:PELL ODS, consisting of a hydrocarbon stationary phase (octadecyl silane) chemically bonded to a small impermeable glass bead, is…

Industry

Micronizer forms a natural extension to the chemical process equipment already succesfully marketed by Airfilco.

People

Mr W. S. Kerr, who until his retirement in 1969 was managing director of Pinchin Johnson, died on Saturday, December 28 aged 70. Mr Kerr joined Pinchin Johnson and Associates in…