George Koch Sons, LLC, uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to determine the optimum oven configuration to produce a cured part while minimizing operating costs and floor space.

Echo Engineering will showcase several new lines of masking and hanging products at FIN-X ‘07. It will highlight its custom converting, molding capabilities, as well as standard products such as plugs, caps, tapes and die-cuts.

The new Elcometer 121/3 Universal Paint Inspection Gauge (P.I.G) from Elcometer Instruments Ltd. is designed to provide a quick, versatile method of coating examination, destructive measurement of coating thickness and cross hatch adhesion in a single, portable gauge.

The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA), in conjunction with the Electrotechnologies Application Center (ETAC) of Northampton Community College, has announced that registration for its online Process Heating Course scheduled for the fall 2007 semester will open on August 6.

The 2007 Southern Metal Finishing Conference, sponsored by the Southern Metal Finishing Newsletter, will be hosting a two day workshop on metal surface cleaning, September 24th-25th.

Akzo Nobel’s Powder Coatings business has officially opened its first production plant in Russia on a site that offers ample capacity for future expansion. The EUR 13 million investment places the company at the heart of the Central and Eastern European market for industrial coatings, of which Russia has a 46% share.

ABMyr’s Coatings Gasifying Oven (CGO) is designed to eliminate the batch oven process typical of industry standard pyrolysis ovens. Continuous material flow processing provides production efficiencies over batch processing by avoiding the need to repetitively heat up and cool down the oven.

Heatbath Corp. has introduced Maxamp Classic, a heavy-duty electrocleaner designed to remove a variety of soils including oils, drawing compounds, polishing compounds and zinc phosphate coatings.

KRONOS has introduced a new series of visible light photocatalyst compounds called KRONOS vlp 7000, vlp 7001, vlp 7100 and vlp 7101. These new products are designed to achieve maximum degradation of atmospheric pollutants, odors and direct-contact organic compounds in the presence of both visible light and UV radiation.

Wheelabrator has designed and manufactured “hybrid” airblast machines that use centrifugal wheels to process 80 to 90% of the surface area and then rely on a manipulating blast nozzle to “finish” the remaining 10%, which otherwise would not have been accessible to the blast wheel.