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PACE Award Finalist: Infinicoat

Chemical Dynamics developed an innovative new coating for aggressive automotive environments:

Some portions of the automobile must be coated with paint that offers a variety of unique long life performance attributes including resistance to harsh chemicals such as fuels, oils and hydraulic fluid, and also offer resistance to stone chipping, road salts and moisture in a variety of forms. Lastly, such coatings must also be conductive so the build-up of static electricity does not cause volatile materials to ignite.

Since there was no such coating on the market, especially a water born coating, Chemical Dynamics developed and patented this coating for use on fuel filler tubes, fuel lines and other components of cars requiring these properties. This technology named Infinicoat was one of a handful of PACE Award finalists among several hundred contestants in recognition of the value and innovation that this product brought to the automotive industry. Infinicoat is currently used on multiple domestic model cars.

R&D 100 Awards

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Over the course of Ron Lewarchik’s career, he has been awarded 3 R&D 100 Awards.

While Director of Industrial Research at Desoto Inc., Ron and his development teams were awarded two R&D 100 awards in global competition for distinguished achievement in the development of innovative products. He was responsible for the development groups in appliance, electrocoat, paper, automotive, aerospace, packaging, and coil coating. While at Desoto, he was also awarded several patents for novel developments in UV Cure, water borne, high solids, and low cure chemistries for metal and plastic substrates.

As Vice President of Industrial Research & Technology at Morton International, Ron was the recipient of another R&D 100 award for a new coil coating technology and multiple patents in water borne, high solids and high performance polyester, silicone polyester and acrylic resins and coatings made from these resins.

Patents

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Ronald Lewarchik was awarded over 50 U.S. and Foreign patents over the last thirty years. Published in the’Industrial Finishing’ and ‘Product Finishing’ magazines, Journal of ACS, Internationally recognized speaker at ECCA in Brussels, POSCO International Automotive Symposium in S. Korea, and the NCCA in the USA. Here is a listing of some of his recent achievements:

PATENT #	Title	R.J.Lewarchik • Inventor/Coinventor
1.	6,602,552	Low temperature cure coating composition and method therefore
2.	6,485,781	Metal roofing shingle stock and method for making it
3.	5,972,471	Decorative coating with textured pattern
4.	5,858,506	Decorative coating with textured pattern
5.	5,852,162	Low molecular weight hydroxy functional polyesters for coatings
6.	5,840,827	Low molecular weight hydroxy functional polyesters for coatings
7.	5,688,598	Non-blistering thick film coating compositions and method for providing non-blistering thick film coatings on metal surfaces
8.	5,623,027	Silicone-modified aliphatic polyester
9.	5,516,549	Method of applying a striated coating
10.	5,484,842	UV-stable, water-borne polyester compositions
11.	5,342,871	Clear hydrophilic coating for heat exchanger fins
12.	5,340,870	Fast dry waterborne traffic marking paint
13.	5,262,494	Hard, flexible, and durable architectural coating
14.	5,211,989	Clear hydrophilic coating for heat exchanger fins
15.	5,185,403	Thermosetting acrylic polymers and coating compositions containing said acrylic polymers and fluorocarbon resins
16.	4,720,403	Anticorrosive coating compositions
17.	4,560,728	Thermally cured topcoats on vacuum deposited metal
18.	4,532,021	Adherent ultraviolet cured coatings
19.	4,530,977	Low temperature-curing polyester urethane systems
20.	4,526,939	Thermosetting coating compositions for the sealing of fiber reinforced plastics
21.	4,518,746	Polyester oligomer and high solids thermosetting coatings
22.	4,504,374	Ultraviolet cured coating method to provide stone chip resistance
23.	4,481,093	Ultraviolet curable basecoats for vacuum metallization
24.	4,416,750	Ultraviolet curable basecoats for vacuum metallization
25.	4,317,894	Low temperature cure coating compositions
26.	4,314,918	Coating compositions containing organic alcoholic reactive diluents
27.	4,252,935	Esters of diglycidyl polyethers of hydrogenated phenols and coating compositions containing same
28.	4,228,294	Esters of imidazolidinedione-based diepoxides and coating compositions containing same
29.	4,221,891	Esters of imidazolidinedione-based triepoxides and coating compositions containing same
30.	4,218,355	Low organic solvent-containing polyester coating compositions
31.	4,206,104	N,N-‘-Dihydroxyalkyl ester substituted imidazolidinediones and coating compositions containing same
32.	4,187,380	Esters of imidazolidinedione-based triepoxides
33.	4,174,337	Hydroxy-functional esters of substituted imidazolidinediones and compositions containing same

Martin Rea Fuel Filler Tube Repair

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Problem:

Martinrea International, a leading supplier of automotive fuel handling components and hoses to the automotive industry, was seeking a water born conductive, environmentally compliant paint finish for application on fuel filler tubes. At the time they contacted Chemical Dynamics, no such product existed.

Action:

Chemical Dynamics, in close cooperation with Martinrea, developed an innovative, patented product called Infinicoat.

Result:

Infinicoat meets rigorous automotive specifications and is currently used on several domestic and international automobiles. Infinicoat was also a PACE automotive new product finalist in 2011.

PRS Guitars Get Assist With Their Finishes

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Problem:

Paul Reed Smith, the founder of PRS Guitars, the leading manufacturer of concert guitars in the world, needed a way to quickly fill wood grain prior to application of subsequent paint.

Action:

Chemical Dynamics developed an environmentally compliant 100% solids light cure grain filler that can be applied and cured in a few seconds prior to application of paint.

Result:

PRS was able to improve the quality of their finish and at the same time improve process time by over 25%.

Scratch Repair for Herschel Wright

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Challenge:

Herschel Wright, owner of Hi-Tech Industries (the leading supplier of quality care products for automotive restoration professionals), did not have scratch repair technology to repair small paint scratches.

Action:

In a matter of a few weeks, Chemical Dynamics developed a clear coatings product that can be applied with an artist’s brush that eliminates scratches. After application the area where the finish is repaired is indistinguishable from the surrounding car finish.

Result:

This product is now sold globally to professionals in the auto restoration market.

Identifying Roof Failure Points

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Chemical Dynamics has several decades of experience in the determination of the causes of coating failures and the determination of probable cause of exterior coating failures. Such roof failures may include corrosion, paint peeling, color change, severe chalking, cracking and spotting of coatings and damage due to scratches. Normally coated metal roofs will demonstrate accelerated failure rates versus building sidewalls, as exposure to the sun, wind and precipitation is more severe.

Failures may be caused by one or more of the following issues: poor cleaning and/or poor metal pretreatment, poor quality metal, paint degradation (pigment and/or resin) of either or both primer and topcoat, paint formula defect, inadequate cure of coating, painting defects, paint contamination, damage and scratches during handling and building erection, and lastly aggressive climate conditions (chemical attack or environmental issues such as acid rain or a corrosive environment).

We have provided services including failure mode analysis, building site reports, test reports, analysis, expert witness reports, recommended failure remediation, and testimony on behalf of building owners as well as for companies that supply building materials.

Automotive Paint for Aggressive Environments

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Rust Erase Product Resolves Your Rust Issues

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Conventional coatings that are applied to rusty metal require several preparatory steps that include removal of rust and scale by sanding, scrapping or sand blasting, followed by surface cleaning with solvent and/or detergent and then metal treatment to provide a surface for paint bonding. Rust Erase is a revolutionary new coating that penetrates & encapsulates rust without the need for prep or sanding.

Rust erase is a single component polymeric penetrant that does not need any mixing or reduction with solvents and is applied with or without surface preparation over rusty, scaly steel or non-oxidized metal. Unlike conventional paint technologies, Rust Erase penetrates and bonds to the base metal surface, polymerizes and then adheres tenaciously to provide a long lasting protective finish and proven protection in aggressive corrosion testing- used with or without a topcoat.

Lastly, Rust Erase is patent pending as it represents a significant technological breakthrough.

Energy Efficient Window Coatings Save Thousands of Dollars

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Chemical Dynamics, LLC has successfully developed coatings that offer the coated surface an ε much lower that 0.9, thus reducing heating bills. In recognition of the energy savings properties of this coating, the Department of Energy Building in Washington D.C. utilized this technology to coat their aluminum window frames.

Coatings by nature have a high emissivity. Emissivity by definition is the relative property of a material’s surface to emit energy by radiation. It is the ratio of energy radiated by a particular material to energy radiated by a black body at the same temperature. A true black body would have an ε = 1 while any real object would have ε < 1. Emissivity is a dimensionless quantity. For example, a black or white painted (ε = ~ 0.9) aluminum object will absorb infrared energy (or heat) and be heated to a much greater temperature than a material that utilizes a coated surface that has an ε lower that 0.9.