Liquid Coating

Pretreatment Switch

Lowers energy costs, facilitates environmental compliance

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Pigment to Binder Ratio Calculation

For my percent ash value the formula reads: % ash value = ((100% -% moisture of sample)/%NV) × 100. The problem I encounter is that I’m unable to figure out the percent moisture of sample. Is there a formula I’m missing?

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Pretreatment of Aluminum

Recently, we had a job to paint several pieces that were too long to fit into our chromate conversion coating tanks, so our customer arranged with another shop to anodize them. These pieces were painted some months ago and we now find there is an adhesion problem after only three months in the field. In fact, the finish is peeling off in large sections. Can you give us some suggestions as to why we are running into adhesion problems using the anodizing pretreatment, and why you feel anodizing is preferable to a chromate conversion coating as a pretreatment? Also, is it possible that initially there may be good adhesion of the coating to the anodized surface, but later there is a reaction which causes peeling problems?

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Five Principles of Lean Manufacturing from Toyota Production Systems

Fostering Sustainable business and People success through new ways of thinking

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System Synergy

Robot, programming, hardware and materials developments boost automotive finishing

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Clean Steel Using COR Rinse 404

We have been using cor rinse 404. Could you tell me if there are any issues with adhesion with different paints systems? How do you check if the metal is clean?

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Emphasis on Repeatability

Coating thickness measurement goes digital

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Removing Anti-Corrosion Compound

Our problem is that the compound eventually seeps out onto the other surfaces intended to be painted after assembly. What can we do to solve this problem?

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Cement Truck Finish

We are having paint problems. These problems run from primer and paint peeling to severe rusting. Before we order any painting and metal preparation equipment, we need to know the materials to use and procedures to follow to improve our paint finish.

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Painting Aluminum Castings

How many of these customary aluminum preparatory steps can we eliminate from our process? We’ve experimented with eliminating the conversion coating and primer coat without any adverse affects over the short run.

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