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News Release from: Mercia Systems | Subject: Adhesion Promoting Paints
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 October 2003
Painting plastics without adhesion
primers
As well as providing more efficient manufacturing practices, using adesion promoting paints on plastics provides a definite competitive advantage in automotive painting.
U.K based M.S.L
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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They are being used by Venture Industries in Grand Blanc, Michigan, a leading Tier 1 automotive supplier, Venture will use the ATmaPa process to surface treat exterior grades of TPO, the treated components will then be painted without the use of Adhesion Promoting Paints.
Dave Davis, Director - Sales and Business Development for Venture said "The implementation of ATmaPa surface treating technology at our Grand Blanc facility is a significant step forward in achieving more efficient manufacturing practices and provides Venture with a definite competitive advantage in automotive painting".
The latest innovations in surface treating technology for the plastics finishing industry have been focused on the need to advance adhesion properties, increase product quality, and become more environmentally friendly.
These objectives have been achieved through the innovative design of FTS Technologies patented 'Advanced Thermo-Molecular Adhesion Process' (ATmaPa).
Chris Lines, Managing Director of M.S.L.
the UK representative for F.T.S.
claims that F.T.S.
Technologies have been working very closely with key Automotive companies and their suppliers all around the world, with all indicating significant interest in exploring ATmaP? and approving it for use in today's high volume painting facilities.
Russell Brynolf, President of F.T.S.
Technologies claims that the ATmaP? process is a method of grafting a chemical coupling agent to the surface of olefin based plastic components, it involves the atomization and vaporization of a coupling agent through the centre of a 'Cirqual?' gas burner to facilitate the creation of a surface chemistry unique to the process, ATmaP? technology can be used on any olefin based plastic component that needs to be painted, bonded, decorated, laminated, printed, or have tape applied.
The results, claims Brynolf, are a unique surface chemistry that completely eliminates the need for expensive, and environmentally damaging, adhesion promoting primers widely used in today's manufacturing environments.
The ATmaP? process also significantly increases the polarity of the substrate to provide better conductivity for electrostatic coating applications.
Current technologies, like adhesion promoters, conventional flame treatment, corona discharge, and plasma chambers, are unable to match levels of adhesion achieved by ATmaP treated components.
The ATmaP process far exceeds all minimum requirements for industry standard Adhesion tests like Cross Hatch, Stone-Chip Resistance, Petrol Immersion, Mandrel Bend, Water Jet, Humidity, and Thermal Shock.
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