New Products
AMES LAUNCHES HIGH PRECISION
LIQUID COATING CAPABILITIES
Ames Corporation has introduced
AMESShield Coatings for the protection of wind turbine applications
against erosion caused by sand and
other foreign objects damage (FOD).
Proprietary formulation increases
durability to withstand exposure to
various harsh environments with
greatly improved ice-phobic characteristics to resist forming and facilitating
the shedding of ice.
Ames’ new capabilities provide protection
for wind turbine applications from erosion,
heat, ice and chemicals.
NIPPOLAC INTRODUCES PEARL PAINT
Sri Lankan-based Silicone Coatings
(Pvt) Ltd., through its Nippolac Paints
business, has introduced a new product to the Sri Lankan paint industry
with the launch of Nippolac Pearl
Paint. Nippolac Pearl Paint is a ready-to-use, water-based, satin, acrylic,
designer decorative interior paint. The
key feature of Nippolac Pearl Paint,
according to the company, is that the
product reveals a sparkling Pearl finish on the surfaces it is applied on.
Raja Hewabowala, managing director
of the Nippolac Group of Companies,
said this latest innovation to the market
is to give the Sri Lankan consumers an
extraordinary experience in decorating
their homes with an elegant, sparkling
Pearl finish paint. He further stated that
Nippolac Pearl Paint, which is available
in 35 colors could be used to enhance the
color of a regular interior emulsion paint
by applying Nippolac Pearl Paint on top
of the previously painted emulsion paint
which can now be used as a basecoat.
Moreover, this product can be used on
wood finishes, plaster of Paris and clay
accessories which are growing industries. Nippolac Pearl Paint will be initially made available through Nippolac
‘Colour Master’ dealers (Colour Mixing
Centres) in Colombo and the suburbs.
PPG AEROSPACE LAUNCHES
‘GREEN’ PAINT SYSTEM
A new “green” exterior aircraft painting system in development by PPG’s
aerospace coatings business has shown
corrosion resistance comparable to
processes using chromated pretreat-ment and primers as well as easier
application than for alternative environmentally responsible systems,
according to the company.
The PPG Aerospace chromate-free
depaint/repaint process includes a new
exterior epoxy primer based on nanotechnology and an adhesion promoter
PPG manufactures under license from
Boeing, according to Alan Schoeder,
PPG Aerospace commercial coatings
global segment manager.
“In salt spray and filiform corrosion
testing, metal surfaces protected by
new Desoprime HS CA 7502 high-solids exterior epoxy primer showed
the same corrosion resistance as those
coated with chromated primers,”
Schoeder said. The PPG Aerospace
environmentally-responsible primer is
expected to be qualified this year at
Boeing, he added.
Eldorado Adhesion Promoter (EAP-
9) uses Boeing’s Boegel technology
that PPG has licensed, Schoeder said,
enabling PPG to offer airframe manufacturers and third-party painters an
easy-to-use, competitively-priced conversion coating.
“EAP- 9 is applied to the stripped
aluminum airframe and allowed to dry,
and then Desoprime HS CA 7502
primer is applied,” Schoeder said.
“With a chromated process, the chemical has to be rinsed off, putting hazardous material into the rinse water.
Unlike another chromate-free conversion coating, only one application is
needed with EAP- 9, and no mechanical
abrading is required.”
When EAP- 9 is used with Eldorado
corrosion remover and brightener
EAC- 8, resulting metal-corrosion
resistance is similar to resistance
achieved through processes using chromated chemicals, Schoeder said.
AKZONOBEL LAUNCHES
PEELABLE COATING
A new type of coating—Intergard
10220—originally developed for military
use by AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings is
likely to have a much wider impact on
civil protection techniques and urban
environmental projects in the future.
Intergard 10220, now on the market,
was developed as a temporary peelable
camouflage coating with chemical agent
absorbent properties as a result of a
three-year collaboration project between
the UK Defence Science and Technology
Laboratory (Dstl) at Porton Down and
AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings.
“Just as the technical imperative
created by the space industry saw the
launch of many new technologies that
have now become part of our everyday
lives, so too is the need to create a
durable and flexible camouflage for the
military may well result in a host of
new uses for the peelable coatings elsewhere,” said Robert Walker, AkzoNobel
Aerospace Coating’s business development manager for defense.
The new coating meets the demand for
asset protection from visual and heat
seeking observation in specific environments. Further improvements to the
coating’s ability to absorb rather than
just resist chemical agents are continuing through this joint venture. CW
