23 May 2003
Year: 2003
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Everywhere you go today you hear the same thing, "Faster-Better-Cheaper is needed by all of our
companies to survive." This is not only true of our businesses and processes but also with our products and how our products help to make our customers products and operations better. Also, the rate of change continues to accelerate. Alkyds and lacquers dominated the market for years. Slowly these materials were replaced with low solids thermosetting materials. It seems like a long time ago now, but the conversion to high solids materials happened very fast and only twenty years ago. Since then we have seen rapid growth in waterborne, powder, and ultraviolet curing coatings. Most ultraviolet curing systems used high-energy light sources. Now the market is demanding even faster systems and a renewed interest in environmentally friendly systems. "Faster and Safer" coating systems based on low energy ultraviolet systems hold great promise for satisfying current and future market coating requirements.

2003 Conference Faster and Safer - UVA Cured Automotive Finishes
Author: B.M. Richards | 6 pages

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