LOW TEMPERATURE CURING IS FOCUS OF INTERNATIONAL POWDER COATINGS SECTOR
December 1st, 2012
BY ALAN OSBORN
COATINGS companies worldwide are developing lower temperature curing systems for powder coatings, enabling them to be applied to wood and/or plastics. Also, new acrylic resins to avoid powder coating contamination problems are being developed, Polymers Paint Colour Journal has been told.
"In the US the industry in general is constantly striving to achieve lower cure temperatures," said Mike Wittenhagen, technical manager of the Powder Coating Institute (PCI) which represents the North American powder coating industry (including Canada ...
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