Coatings World - December 2012

The Hempel Coatings ware-
house will service the Deer Park,
Texas area for heavy industrial
petrochemical markets, terminals con-
tractors, service companies, marine ship-
yards, manufacturers and OEMs.

Dean Webster to Deliver 2013 Mattiello Lecture at ACA’s Coatings Tech Conference

The American Coatings Association (ACA) has announced that Dr. Dean Webster, chair of the Coatings and Polymeric Materials Department at North Dakota State University (NDSU), will deliver the Mattiello Memorial Lecture at its Coatings Tech Conference, March 11- 13, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois. The Coatings Tech Conference is the coatings industry’s leading technical event, and will embrace the theme, “Leaps and Bounds: Re-energizing the Coatings Industry,” underscoring the importance of continued innovation in the coatings industry through education and networking.

Webster joined NDSU’s Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials in 2001, becoming chair of the department in January 2012. Prior to arriving at NDSU, he worked for 17 years in the coatings industry, beginning in 1984 at The Sherwin-Williams Company’s Central Research Laboratories in Chicago where he was involved in resin development for industrial coatings, as well as long-range research in new resins and crosslinking chemistry. While in Chicago, he helped develop the Coatings Technology program at DePaul University and taught a course in coatings resin technology. In 1993, he moved to Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee, where he led project teams in the areas of applications development for new monomers, new chemistry for coatings systems, and polymer development for coatings. Webster has a B.S. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering Science from Virginia Tech.

Webster’s current research interests include the use of biobased chemicals in high
performance materials, design of new high performance polymer and coating sys-
tems; use of high throughput methods in the development of new materials; low
surface energy coatings; use of nanoreinforcements; and radiation curable polymer
systems. Webster has been recognized with numerous awards and citations: he is a
five-time recipient of the Roon Foundation Award, and won the American Chemical
Society’s prestigious Roy W. Tess Award; he has published 86 peer-reviewed articles,
contributed six book-chapters, and holds 17 patents. Webster is a member of ACA,
the American Chemical Society, the American Oil Chemists’ Society and Radtech. He
is currently the Editor-in-Chief of “Progress in Organic Coatings.”
In addition to the Mattiello Memorial Lecture, the Coatings Tech Conference will
include the Roon Award competition papers, Gordon Best Paper competition, stu-
dent poster presentations and feature a multi-track forum. Leading the conference
will be three Technology Short Courses, to be offered on Monday. In addition, table-
top exhibits held during the event will feature displays of the most innovations in
products and services offered to the industry.

For more information on the 2013 Cotatings Tech Conference and Short Courses, visit www.paint.org/events.coatingstech.html or contact Starsha Valentine at 202-462- 6272; e-mail: svalentine@paint.org.

Dean Webster

SG200 Series Methacrylate Adhesives from SCIGRIP Provide Permanent Bonding Dragonfly Boatworks’ Paddle Boards

SCIGRIP SG200 methacrylate adhesive technology serves in critical bonding and sealing applications and enhances the performance of recreational and fishing paddle boards, as well as other personal watercraft manufactured by Dragonfly Boatworks. The paddle boards’ unique two-piece “shoe box” design consists of a hull and a top deck that are mated with SCIGRIP’s SG200 Series adhesive in a 6mm bond line, ensures the bond strength to keep the two pieces together, and prevents water from entering the board’s internal section. Due to the unique rheology of SG200-40, no additional sealing steps are required after the hull pieces are joined.

SCIGRIP’s SG200 series adhesives are two-component, 10:1 mix ratio products used for bonding composites, thermoplastics, metals and combinations thereof. The SG200 Series requires minimal surface preparation and offers a choice of 10-, 20- and 40-minute working times. SG200-40 helps maximize manufacturing efficiency by providing Dragonfly Boatworks with the production time needed in order to bond the two-piece boards and ensure a precision seal, according to the company.

Dragonfly Boatworks’ 10-foot and 13.6-foot paddle boards are used for fishing, exercise and recreation, offering the ability to enter typically non-accessible, shallow waters. Additionally, Dragonfly boards are configured to keep the paddle boarders dry with their unique water-shedding deck design.

GNS Science and Resene
Paints to Develop Cool-Roof
Paint Using Nanoparticles

GNS Science and Resene Paints have teamed up to develop a high-tech roof paint containing nanoparticles that will be more effective than existing coating products at reflecting summer heat and keeping buildings cooler in summer.