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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...

One of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive clear-coats and their automotive OEM began to notice a problem of small, permanent spots appearing on cars arriving through shipping ports near Jacksonville, Florida. They determined that the spots w...

A major global manufacturer and supplier of synthetic textiles was looking to use their Q-SUN Xe-3 to optimize the amount of UV stabilizers in their formulation,for internal cost-reduction purposes. The customer designed an experiment to test va...