Coatings World - February 2008

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This environmentally friendly paint is weather resistant for long lasting resilience outdoors, as well as indoors, the company said.

will be subjected to harsh conditions, particularly automotive, military, aerospace, industrial and consumer avionics applications. Like the market-leading Hysol PC52,

Hysol PC62 is compliant with UL746 and IPC-CC-830 requirements and is ideally suited to application with non-atomized selective spray coating equipment. CW

HENKEL LAUNCHES HYSOL PC62

Henkel’s latest advancement in the electronics area is a new toluene-free conformal coating material called Hysol PC62.

Based on the company’s popular Hysol PC52 platform, Hysol PC62 is a one component solvent-based acrylic conformal coating that provides environmental and mechanical protection for printed circuit boards (PCBs). Designed as a toluene-free alternative, the product delivers the benefits of a non-toluene material with all of the quick drying advantages of a traditional toluene-based system. In testing against other toluene-free materials, Hysol PC62 delivered drying times as much as four times faster than the closest competitor.

Though the electronics industry is slowly shifting away from solvent-based conformal coating systems, the migration will likely be quite gradual as solvent-free, or even water based, materials simply do not offer the ease of use or performance capabilities of solvent-based systems. Hysol PC62 has been specifically engineered for those electronics manufacturers that cannot move to current solvent-free systems but want to eliminate toluene from their manufacturing operations.