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TQC will use the ECS 2009 for a series of product-introductions. Not less than 4 new products will be revealed at the world largest coatings show in Nurnberg.

Basic yet new corrosion test
An all new basic saltspray test cabinet will be demonstrated on the booth. The no-nonsense design of this corrosion test combines low maintenance cost, simple operation with highly reproducible results and a low initial investment allowing also smaller companies to perform their own corrosion tests.

Dry and wet wear test
The second innovation is the AB1000 automatic washability and abrasion tester. This fully programmable machine is used to perform dry and wet (with integrated dosing pump) wear tests on coatings, plastics and other materials.

Photography and impact resistance
For TQC’s universal optical coating thickness gauge a camera adapter has been designed to make pictures with any standard digital camera to document inspection results. Further a new Impact resistance test is being introduced that complies with the latest applicable ISO and ASTM standards.

Multi-linguistic team
To emphasize the international character of the exhibition a large number of product specialists, speaking all together 6 different languages, will be available at the TQC booth to explain about the4 new products. You can visit TQC in Hall 9, booth 357.

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Recently the international ISO 6272 standard and ASTM D2794-93 standard where both changed. The ISO 6272 standard is actually fully deleted and superseded by 2 standards, called the ISO 6272-1 and ISO 6272-2. ISO 6272-2 is mandatory in Qualicoat accredited laboratories. Accordingly the design of the TQC impact tester has changed.

The new impact tester, article number SP1880, comes as a complete set (apparatus and accessoires) with which you can perform an Impact Test according to ASTM and ISO 6272-2. The difference with the old standard is that the new standards has an indirect impact.

As of now the new impact tester (SP1880) will be supplied. The IP2000 (SP18050, SP1851, SP1852) is obsolete from now on. Accessoires for the IP2000 are still available.

More about the new Impact tester

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The free film can be created by using a polyethylene or polypropylene foil as a substrate. By applying a film with defined thickness by means of an applicator the desired thickness can be obtained.

After drying, the foil substrate can be removed and the free film can be cut into the desired size, to be placed in the permeability cup. If the coating is too brittle to be created by this method a porous substrate may also be used.

More about permeability

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TQC Bresle Kit is from now on supplied with a new Conductivity meter and an extra 2,5ml syringe. On top of that TQC has developed a new method to perform the test.

60x more accurate
The new TQC method is 60 times more accurate than the current ISO 8502-6/9. In the near future the method will be highlighted in this newsletter.

Conductivity meter
The ECTestr 11+ conductivity meter (art. nr. HI0017) that comes with the Bresle Kit can be ordered separatelyas well.

More about the Bresle Kit

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It started one morning in 1990 with a none-too-promising paint analysis request from a detective working on a burglary at a brand new apartment complex. The burglar had used a levered device to pry open a white painted front door of an apartment that had been occupied for only a few weeks. A suspect was later found loitering in the neighborhood, and he had an outstanding warrant for a prior burglary. A search of the suspect’s vehicle turned up a two-foot long pry bar in the trunk, with some white material transfers on the wedge end.

The analysis request was a criminalist’s trace analysis “ho-hum” case. A single layer of new architectural paint on new wood framing, and a few sub-millimeter scraps of smeared white material on an iron surface. The confirmation of paint similarity between the door frame and pry bar samples was likely to have little uniqueness, and was also likely to lead to a significant amount of reasonable doubt in a typical trial juror’s mind.

After analysis, the detective was called with a “good news, bad news” report. The apartment and pry bar samples were indeed similar and probably rare, but they were rare because they were new paint films and they also contained lead carbonate pigment. Now he had two cases.

Further investigation found that a painting contractor had low-bid the paint job to get rid of an old container of alkyd lead-containing white semi-gloss paint he had “buried” in the back of his warehouse. Save for the burglary, he probably would have gotten away with his dumping plan. Subsequently, the apartment dwellers were moved out, the exterior paint on the building was stripped off and replaced, the painter declared bankruptcy and paid a hefty fine, and the burglar pled out. You and I covered the insurance losses.

Such is the life of a forensic paint examiner/criminalist. Nothing in the case ever got to trial or to the newspapers.

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Chinacoat 2008 has been very succesfull. The Chinese market seems very interested in TQC’s high-quality products, such as Curve-X dataloggers and DewCheck.

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This TQC newsletter is distributed in three languages: German, English and Dutch. If this newsletter isn’t in the language you’d prefer, please choose the correct language following the link below.

Dieser TQC-Newsletter wird in drei Sprachen veröffentlicht: Deutsch, Englisch und Niederländisch. Falls dieser Newsletter nicht in der von Ihnen bevorzugten Sprache vorliegen sollte, dann wählen Sie die korrekte Sprache über den unten stehenden Link.

Deze TQC nieuwsbrief wordt in drie talen verspreid: Duits, Engels, Nederlands. Ontvangt u de nieuwsbrief niet in de taal van uw keuze, wilt u dan via onderstaande link uw voorkeur doorgeven.

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