12.  Compliant Metal Finishing – Part I
CHAIR: Steve Kiefer, Rohm & Haas Powder Coatings

A. Powder Coatings 2007 - State of the Art
SPEAKER: Steve Kiefer, Rohm & Haas Powder Coatings

This presentation will discuss current markets, materials and major developments underway.  The end use market emphasis will address powder coating developments for architectural aluminum, automotive, general industrial and several niche markets.

B. DIP Conversion Coatings creating excitement in Finishing
SPEAKER: Brad Gruss, Pretreatment & Process LLC Consulting
 

This presentation explains in detail the testing of 600 panels in a production setting.  Six of the pretreatment chemical companies offering DIP's were invited to test their products.  This presentation explains why this is emerging, the types available, how they work and reviews which inorganic or organic conversions worked over five different powder coating chemistries!  We explain the benefits and negatives and inform finishers what they need to do to test and evaluate this new technology.

C. What’s Going on with Pretreatments?  “Chrome Free”; “Phosphate Free”; “Dry-In-Place”
SPEAKER: Charlie Ike, Bulk Chemicals Inc.

What do these phrases mean?  How do they work?  Do they work?  Are there special equipment requirements?  Why would you want to use these pretreatments?  We will try to answer all of these questions and more. Included in the presentation will be a review of government and industry regulations and standards that are making these phrases commonplace in the finishing industry. 

D. Paint System Equipment Upgrades for Environmental Compliance
SPEAKER: Chris Herr, Herr Industrial

This paper provides an overview of finishing system equipment changes typically employed to help meet environmental compliance.  The system upgrades discussed range from simple, low-cost alternatives such as oven profile changes, to medium-cost items involving equipment modification to the higher cost addition of mitigation equipment such as wastewater treatment and thermal oxidizers.  The paper focuses on changes to compliant waterborne and powder coatings.  

NOTE:  This session continues with Session 17 Compliant Metal Finishing: PART II.