Coatings Basics

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This eBook edition gives a summary of detailed information concerning ingredients, formulations, manufacturing, application as well as useful explanations and guidelines coming first handed from the author's experience and expert knowledge. Separated in ten chapters Adrie Winkelaar summarizes the phenomena of paint and coatings with few references so that newcomers are able to read this book through freely and easily. A solid grounding in coatings technology - richly illustrated with numerous photographs.

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Adrie Winkelaar was born in 1946. After his study Chemical Technology he worked 25 years in the AkzoNobel research department Decorative Coatings in development and supporting of several paint assortments. He built up a department application research with his knowledge about behavior psychology (mature education), in which he rounded off his degree at the University of Amsterdam in 1981. Since 1991 he was Technical Secretary of the Dutch Paint and Printing Ink Association. In that time he introduced Coating Care in The Netherlands and assisted on many regulations in The Netherlands and in the European Community, for example the Product Directive 2004/42/EC. At this moment he is freelance editor, teacher in the Elesevier/Reed organization in Coating Technology and has his own Coating Technology Consultancy office in The Netherlands.

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