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To All registered members,

Unleash your inner artist

Spend two hours drinking, laughing, and flexing your creative muscles. There’s no experience necessary and we’ll provide all the supplies, so you don’t have to worry about a thing (except having a great time!). Must be of legal drinking age.

The event begins promptly at the start time listed above. Please allow extra time to find parking and get settled. If you’re coming with a group (yay, how fun!) make sure you arrive early to get seats together – it’s first come, first serve. If you’re planning to eat dinner before the event, please arrive ONE HOUR before the event starts. There might not be plenty of room on your table for food AND your painting, but there’s ALWAYS enough room for your drink!

Events last approximately two hours, at the end of which you get to take home your new masterpiece.

Speaker:  Dr. Robert Sandoval, R&D Technical Manager at EPS.

Abstract: Adhesion to a substrate is a key fundamental property for most classes of coatings.  Unless one is designing a removable coating, high adhesion is typically desired.  However, due to the wide range of substrates that exist, designing a single resin and coating formulation that adheres to the multitude of surfaces that an end user may coat (while maintaining other performance properties) is challenging.  Additionally, as the coatings industry converts more to waterborne technologies, strategies that were once used to improve adhesion are no longer an option.  In this talk, an overview of common substrates and strategies that have been employed to adhere to them will be presented.  For example, low surface energy substrates such as thermoplastic olefin (TPO), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and others are notoriously difficult to adhere to due to their lack of chemical functionality to improve adhesion and typically require a solvent-based (i.e., high VOC) solution.  Data will be presented showing how newly developed waterborne acrylic resins and their coatings formulation can impact, and in the case of resin choice, dramatically improve adhesion, especially to metal, TPO, asphalt, and other hard-to-stick-to surfaces

Cost:

$0 for manufacturing members

$20 for retired persons

$25 for all others

Typical Schedule (flexible with goal start time of 11:30AM):

11-11:30AM: Registration

11:45AM: Lunch orders

12PM: Introduce speakers & announcements

12:20PM: Lunch served

Bio: Dr. Robert Sandoval is a R&D Technical Manager at EPS, leading the Industrial and Construction coatings group.  He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2010, focusing in polymer physics and engineering.  Dr. Sandoval spent four years at Dow Chemical before joining EPS in 2014.  His industrial research has focused on mixing and emulsification technologies and coating formulations and testing.  His technical contributions have helped to commercially launch several platform technologies at EPS, including new high gloss architectural resins, interior & exterior flat through semi-gloss resins, and roof coatings.

Abstract: Adhesion to a substrate is a key fundamental property for most classes of coatings.  Unless one is designing a removable coating, high adhesion is typically desired.  However, due to the wide range of substrates that exist, designing a single resin and coating formulation that adheres to the multitude of surfaces that an end user may coat (while maintaining other performance properties) is challenging.  Additionally, as the coatings industry converts more to waterborne technologies, strategies that were once used to improve adhesion are no longer an option.  In this talk, an overview of common substrates and strategies that have been employed to adhere to them will be presented.  For example, low surface energy substrates such as thermoplastic olefin (TPO), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and others are notoriously difficult to adhere to due to their lack of chemical functionality to improve adhesion and typically require a solvent-based (i.e., high VOC) solution.  Data will be presented showing how newly developed waterborne acrylic resins and their coatings formulation can impact, and in the case of resin choice, dramatically improve adhesion, especially to metal, TPO, asphalt, and other hard-to-stick-to surfaces

Jonathon Bird of Lubrizol’s Performance Coatings Group will be giving a presentation, details TBD.

Cost:

$0 for manufacturing members

$20 for retired persons

$25 for all others

Typical Schedule (flexible with goal start time of 11:30AM):

11-11:30AM: Registration

11:45AM: Lunch orders

12PM: Introduce speakers & announcements

12:20PM: Lunch served

Water-Based Dispersants for High-Performance End Use Applications

ABSTRACT

 Paint formulators face significant challenges in producing high performance coatings in water based finishes. Dispersing pigments in water is more challenging than solvent based systems. The lower VOC’s of today’s finishes and tomorrow’s future needs push the boundaries of traditional dispersant technology.  In addition to wetting and stabilization, it is difficult to eliminate the negative effects of traditional dispersants in the final film properties for the high-performance finishes required in today’s markets.

In this presentation we will introduce our latest developments in water-borne dispersants. We have optimised dispersant performance through the control of polymer architecture, molecular weight and nature of our anchor groups. We have developed novel dispersants that are excellent at both wetting and stabilizing colorants for paints as well as improve the end use properties of high performance finishes.  We will show examples of improved corrosion resistance in a direct to metal finish, improved spot resistance in a high performance black finish, improved tensile and elongation retention in roof coatings, as well as many other examples.

Speaker Bio: Dennis Butcher Technical Marketing Manager

 Dennis is the Technical Marketing Manager for the Performance Coatings at Lubrizol Advanced Materials. He provides technical support to the western region. He joined Lubrizol in 1990 as a Sr. Chemist. Since then he has held numerous technical management and commercial roles throughout his tenure. Prior to Lubrizol, he worked in the printing ink industry formulating aqueous inks for advertising and news. Dennis holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from SUNY Fredonia.

Presentation Title: Aluminum & Pearlescent Pigments 101:

Abstract:  Paint and Coatings formulators have used metallic and pearlescent pigments for many years.  This presentation discusses an introductory knowledge of what is used to produce these pigments, the many forms these pigments can take as well as the diverse methods to use these materials in coatings formulations.    Solvent and water based chemistries will be discussed with practical guidelines of storage, handling and formulating with metallic and pearlescent materials.

Bio: Scott Greer is End Use Manager for Industrial Coatings at Eckart America Corporation, part of the Altana Group.  In this role, he focuses on assisting current and potential customers in selection, formulation and application of effect pigment for decorative and functional performance within Industrial Coatings.

Scott began his career in Coatings as a paint formulator for Chemical Coatings-Waterborne segment of Sherwin-Williams in Chicago.  He continued his work the R&D labs of Valspar and US Coatings developing solvent borne coatings formulations skills.  Scott also worked on the specifications, standards and industrial application coatings within Caterpillar Inc.  Scott has held positions in R&D, Technical Service, Continuous Process Improvement as well as Green Belt Six-Sigma roles.  He earned his BS/Chemistry from the Missouri University of Science & Technology and MS/Chemistry degrees from Depaul University.  He currently resides in Louisville, KY.

Cost:

$0 for manufacturing members

$20 for retired persons

$25 for all others

Typical Schedule (flexible with goal start time of 11:30AM):

11-11:30AM: Registration

11:45AM: Lunch orders

12PM: Introduce speakers & announcements

12:20PM: Lunch served

Presentation Title: Aluminum & Pearlescent Pigments 101:

Abstract:  Paint and Coatings formulators have used metallic and pearlescent pigments for many years.  This presentation discusses an introductory knowledge of what is used to produce these pigments, the many forms these pigments can take as well as the diverse methods to use these materials in coatings formulations.    Solvent and water based chemistries will be discussed with practical guidelines of storage, handling and formulating with metallic and pearlescent materials.

Bio:
Scott Greer is End Use Manager for Industrial Coatings at Eckart America Corporation, part of the Altana Group. In this role, he focuses on assisting current and potential customers in selection, formulation and application of effect pigment for decorative and functional performance within Industrial Coatings.
Scott began his career in Coatings as a paint formulator for Chemical Coatings-Waterborne segment of Sherwin-Williams in Chicago. He continued his work the R&D labs of Valspar and US Coatings developing solvent borne coatings formulations skills. Scott also worked on the specifications, standards and industrial application coatings within Caterpillar Inc. Scott has held positions in R&D, Technical Service, Continuous Process Improvement as well as Green Belt Six-Sigma roles. He earned his BS/Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla and MS/Chemistry degrees at Depaul University. He currently resides in Louisville, KY.

Join us in a game of golf with proceeds to BC Children’s Hospital

Come join us “fore” a great game of golf, Friday, August 16th, for the 26th annual “Portland Charity Classic” Golf Tournament. The proceeds go to help support the Make-A-Wish for a child in need.

To register for the tournament please go here.

72^nd Annual Business Meeting

Agenda

October 21st, 2019

11:30 am – 12:15pm

Versailles 3/4, Paris Hotel

Las Vegas, NV

1. Call to order—Eric
2. Minutes of the 2018 Annual Business Meeting—Paul
3. Introductions
4. Society Financial Report – Darrin
5. WCS Report—Bonnie
6. Society Liaison Report – Bev Spears
7. Committee Reports
   1. 2018 Symposium Report – Bonnie/Ray
   2. 2020 Symposium Preview- Ema or Eric?
   3. Membership—Darin Shields
   4. Scholarship—Betty Anne
   5. Speakers tour –Eric?
   6. Memorial-?
8. Old Business
9. New Business
10. Date and Place of 2020 Annual Business Meeting—Eric
11. Adjournment