Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 10 Issue 6

Comment: U.K. energy and feedstock prices to remain high

Speaking on the future energy and feedstock requirements of the chemical industry overall, but including the paint industry, Dr. Peter Caudle, Deputy Director General of the…

Laboratory preparation, modification and evaluation of inhibitive barium metaborate pigments

M.A. Abou‐Khalil, S.M. El‐Saawy, N.A. Ghanem

Different methods have been carried out to prepare barium metaborate pigments and to find out the suitable method of preparation taking into account ease of industrial application…

Some new rheological additives for paint and printing inks

Synres (U.K.) Ltd., Six Acre House, 17 Town Square, Sale M33 1XZ, Cheshire, report the following recent additions to their range of additives.

Coatings update: Some new proprietary products

Americus

New primers The desire to inhibit corrosion motivates continual research on primers.

ICI Mond introduces water‐based vinyl acrylic copolymer for primers

ICI Mond Division has introduced Haloflex 202, an air drying water based vinyl acrylic copolymer which has been primarily designed as a binder for use in primer paints for the…

Advanced plant for Silver Paint & Lacquer Co.

T.B.M.A. (U.K.) Ltd., developers of complete process systems for industry, have produced an advanced paint manufacturing plant for Silver Paint & Lacquer Co. of Batley, Yorkshire…

Equipment

Gee & Company (Effluent Control) Ltd., St. Martins House, Bull Ring, Birmingham B5 5EG has launched a range of mechanical agitators to be available ex‐stock, as standard, in…

Materials

Cargill's Chemical Products division, P.O. Box 9300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440, USA, has introduced XP‐516–17, its first water‐reducible silicone resin.

Industry

The £5m Activated Fullers' Earth plant recently completed by Laporte Industries Limited on its Widnes Site was officially opened on April 28 by Mr. Bryan Rigby. The new plant, the…

People

Mr. Derrick Johnson of ICI Paints Division was elected President of the Paintmakers Association at the recent AGM in succession to Mr. Eric Osmond (International Paint Co.).