Hamilton Convention Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 2, 2009
A New Metal Finishing Pretreatment: Waterborne Silane-Based Conversion Coating
Speaker: Ian McLeod, B.Eng. M.C.I.C.
Since the mid-twentieth century, iron phosphate or modified zinc phosphate metal pretreatment, combined with hexivalent or trivalent chromate sealers, have been used as a successful adhesion promoter and performance base for solvent-borne paints, waterborne paints, and powdercoat paints. The ubiquitous push for greener alternatives is today of considerable interest to industry and society. The difficulty for industry has been developing a technology that generated equal or better field performance expected by the consumer.
