or no waste and are solvent-free, we are soundly positioned
to meet the challenge with Eco-
Quik, our family of coatings
that are lower in cost, higher in performance and eco-friendly.”
General Motors names BASF
Supplier of the Year in South
America
General Motors has named BASF the
2010 regional Supplier of the Year. The
award recognizes BASF for its performance as a supplier of OEM coatings to
General Motors. The award is based on
the same criteria used by GM for its
global suppliers: quality, service, technology and price. The award in South America follows the award as GM’s best global
coatings supplier given early this year.
Southern Diversified Products
moves headquarters
Southern Diversified Products, producer
of Mythic Paint, has relocated its headquarters to a new Hattiesburg, Miss., location. The company cited a need for
larger space and greater potential for future expansion as the main reason for the
move. The company also added that the
entire office has been painted with Mythic
Paint brand products. The new address is
4200 Mamie St., Suite 120, in Hattiesburg. Despite the change of address,
Southern Diversified Products will retain
the same phone number and email address, at (888) 714-9422 or info@mythic-paint.com.
Sherwin Williams and USB
receive Presidential Green
Chemistry Award
The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) presented Sherwin-Williams with
one of five 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards during a ceremony
in Washington, DC on June 20, 2011. EPA
also recognized the United Soybean Board
(USB) for its role in the development of
the product.
The honor recognizes the development
of an innovative new paint formulation
that utilizes soybean oil and recycled plastic bottles (PET) and reduces volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 60 percent.
“We know as farmers that we’re doing
things that are environmentally safe,
greener and sustainable,” said Bob Hasel-
wood, USB director and new uses chair-
man, who accepted the certificate of
recognition on behalf of USB. “By using
soybeans in products like those developed
by Sherwin-Williams, more people will re-
alize how the soybean industry is playing
a part in the green revolution.”
Sherwin-Williams, with soybean
checkoff funding and technical support
from USB, developed water-based acrylic
alkyd paints with low VOCs that can be
made from soybean oil, PET and acrylics.
These new paints combine the perform-
ance benefits of alkyds and low VOC con-
tent of acrylics, the company said. The
soybean oil helps to promote film forma-
tion, gloss, flexibility and cure.
In 2010, Sherwin-Williams manufactured enough of these new paints to eliminate over 800,000 pounds of VOCs. The
company has used 320,000 pounds of
soybean oil, 250,000 pounds of PET and
eliminated 1,000 barrels of oil.
“Incorporating simple ingredients like
soybean oil and recycled plastic bottles into
a first of its kind powerful paint formula,
provides a winning transformational combination for our customers and the environment,” said Chris Connor, chairman
and CEO, Sherwin-Williams Company.
EPA’s 16th Annual Presidential Green
Chemistry Challenge Awards recognize
pioneering chemical technologies developed by leading researchers and industrial innovators who are making
significant contributions to pollution
prevention in the United States. These
prestigious awards recognize the design
of safer and more sustainable chemicals,
processes and products that will protect
Americans, particularly children, from
exposure to harmful chemicals.
“EPA congratulates this year’s winners
for designing and developing innovative
green chemistry technologies that will result in safer chemicals for use in products,
homes, schools and workplaces that also
have significant environmental and economic benefits,” said Steve Owens, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of
Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
Sherwin-Williams received the award
in the Designing Greener Chemicals category. The paints are sold as ProClassic
Waterbased Acrylic Alkyd, ProMar 200
Waterbased Acrylic Alkyd and ProIndustrial Waterborne Enamel.
In related news, a Pike Research study
projected that the green chemistry market
will grow from $2.8 billion in 2011 to
$98.5 billion by 2020.
MOL chooses Chugoku hull
coating
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is to adopt the
low-friction Seaflo Neo hull paint developed by Chugoku Marine Paint for its en-vironmentally-friendly shipbuilding
program. It is initially being used on two
car carrier newbuildings.
MOL says that after analyzing the results of an onboard test of the paint applied to a newbuilding vessel, it has been
able to confirm that the new paint offers
improvements in fuel efficiency compared
to conventional paints. This, says MOL,
will contribute to the reduction of CO2
emissions from its vessels. The company
says that friction between the hull and the
water accounts for the majority of resistance as a vessel moves through the water.
Reducing friction drag has been shown to
be highly effective in reducing CO2 emissions during vessel operation, so MOL
says it is taking a pro-active stance in developing and adopting a low-friction paint
as one of its environmental initiatives.
The two newbuildings adopting the
new paint are a pair of car carriers, both
of 6,400 standard passenger car unit capacity, built by Minaminippori Shipbuilding. The Brilliant Ace was completed on
March 30, 2011, and the Eternal Ace on
July 25, 2011. The adoption of this new
paint is part of the MOL’s Sempaku Ishin
next-generation vessel concept.
The main characteristic of Seaflo Neo
is the high smoothness of their paint film
surface, the result of a newly developed
low-viscosity hydrolysed polymer. The
ultra-smooth finish is intended to minimise friction drag, improving fuel efficiency by three to five percent compared
to an identical vessel with a conventional
hull coating. Seaflo Neo is also very low
in volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a
major source of air pollution.
