Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 7 Issue 2

Comment

Last month saw the publication of two in‐depth studies of the UK paint industry: one is a financial and economic survey and the other is a study on the future of the industrial…

Effect of temperature on rates of permeation of chloride ions and water vapour through alkyd coatings —

R. Vittal Rao, M. Yaseen

Organic Coatings are used for protection of metallic structures from corrosion. However they fail to isolate the substrate from corrosive materials present in the surroundings…

Coatings update Scientific studies 1977: Part 1

Americus

Coatings science represents one of the best examples available of the importance of an interdisciplinary approach. The organic chemist must provide polymers, solvents, and many of…

The future of organic pigments

Hugh Macdonald Smith

Today's narrowing environment requires new ways of looking at the organic pigments industry. In particular a reconstruction of organic pigments is needed in relation to “TOSCA”…

Materials

To the detriment of both the manufacturer and the consumer, the water in water‐based coatings, combined with atmospheric oxygen in the presence of iron, steel, or tin result in…

Equipment

R. W. Nissen Ltd, Arden House, West Street, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 7ND, have extended their range of specialised packaging products to include circular base liners for kegs…

Industry

International Paint Industrial Coatings has supplied the 750,000th litre of Power Red stoving enamel to David Brown Tractors.

People

A frequent contributor to public discussions on polymer technology and author of numerous papers and articles, Mr. Anthony Charles (Tony) Jolly, (45), has been appointed technical…