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Decoral America is the Florida-based subsidiary of Decoral, an Italian company that manufactures “decorative coating systems”. Their technology is based on a sublimation process to deposit decorative finishes on a wide variety of materials, including...

The New Era in Corrosion TestingDownload PDFIt has been an exciting few years in the fields of weathering and corrosion testing.  Last year, PPCJ published an article on a “Revolution in Weathering Testing” (September, 2013). That revolution was...

Download PDFAutomotive OEMs, coatings material suppliers, and weathering specialists banded together in a series of studies aimed at improving weathering test protocols. After a decade of research, the result is a newly published ASTM test standard, ...

Download PDFAt the end of the 20th century, accelerated weathering test standards for automotive coatings were dominated by methods specifying the use of a particular xenon test chamber configuration. These methods were typically effective in anticip...