Pigment & Resin Technology: Volume 25 Issue 6

Modified alkyd resin as an anti‐corrosive binder for paints

M.A. Abd El‐Ghaffar, E.A.M. Youssef, M.M.H. Abo‐Shosa, N.A. Ibrahim

Modifies short and medium alkyd resins using perfluori‐nated urethane toluene isocyanate (PFUTI), and incorporates the modified resins in a set of paint formulations containing…

An automatic titration system for dynamic surface tension and CMC measurements

Victor P. Janule

Water‐based inks and coatings require alcohols and surfactants to lower their surface tensions to acceptable levels, but have inherent problems of surface wetting, foaming, flow…

Coating thickness measurement of organic coatings

Ray Scruby

For some years now the dominant techniques for coating thickness have been based on electronic instrumentation. As such they have been subject to the same rigid progress which has…

A day in the life of a painting inspector

I.C. Sellars

Reviews all the stages of a protective coating process applicable to structural steelworks. Illustrates the monitoring and testing equipment currently available and the progress…

The case for non‐contact

Roger J. Hicks

In many instances measurement equipment which makes contact with the media or product provides inaccurate results owing to corrosion, mechanical damage or a build‐up of the…

Manufacturing business systems: MRP and MRPII explained

Gerald Davies

Explains the principles of the material requirements planning (MRP) systems, answering all the basic questions in this connection. Tackles the problems inherent in the process…

Fibre optics and NIR combine for in‐line analysis

For many process industries, online analysis has long been seen to possess many benefits. However, until quite recently the parameters which could be measured online were…