May 2nd, 2022
Silicone Expo USA will take place June 21 to 23 at Huntington Place in Detroit, Mich. Promoted as the world’s first free expo and conference for the silicone industry, more than 180 global exhibitors from manufacturing and extended supply chains—elastomers, resins, fluids and gels—will take over the trade show floor to mingle with an anticipated audience of more than 4,000 buyers and delegates.
The expo will also feature two free manufacturing and application conferences, plus virtual roundtables. A series of webinars building up to the event can be found on the expo’s website.
www.silicone-expo.com
Carlisle Fluid Technologies’ DeVilbiss TEKNA spray gun was recently featured on an episode of Detroit Muscle on Power Nation TV to bring a 1973 AMC Javelin back to life. Featuring a high finish quality and operator ergonomics, The TEKNA gun’s high transfer efficiency provides materials savings for solvent or waterbase paints.
The spray gun technology, which has been used in automotive refinishing processes for many years, is designed to spray all types of materials and comes with high efficiency or HVLP air caps that produce large spray patterns with even material distribution.
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AkzoNobel Powder Coatings has developed a new web application 3D colour visualization tool within its Interpon webshop to help customers better understand how a powder coating’s colour, texture and finish that look good in theory, will actually appear in reality.
The tool provides instant access to thousands of colours in the Interpon range. Using a 360-degree dynamic camera and simulated lighting, the customer is given a true-to-life image of how the colour performs to a degree of accuracy and realism not possible before in a virtual environment.
Rather than the image being ‘flat’, the customer can orientate the ‘virtual’ panel to see how the light reflects and the colour looks from different angles. Read More
