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Multi-impact testing for stone-chip resistance: EN ISO 20567 1 revised

Grit, road metal and other materials can damage automotive coatings so that individual layers come off or the whole coating delaminates from the substrate. ...

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Fluctuation scaling of colour variability in automotive metallic add-on parts

Colour matching between the car body and assembled add-on parts is a complex process that increases costs and time in automotive manufacturing. Spanish researchers...

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New dosing technique accelerates contact angle measurements

A new method of drop positioning for measuring static contact angle accelerates the dosing process compared with classic needle dosing.

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Bubble entrapment and escape from sprayed paint films

A model paint consisting of resin dissolved in butanol was sprayed onto horizontal glass substrates to form films varying from 100 μm to 450 μm in thickness....

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Laboratory high speed disperser for vacuum mixing

A new vacuum high speed disperser is designed for laboratory and pilot-scale mixing of batches up to 5 gallons.

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Testing: The view on transmission, haze and clarity

Byk-Gardner is introducing a new haze meter to simultaneously measure total transmission, haze and clarity according to ASTM and ISO test methods.