PRESS RELEASE:
Wakefield, Mass.
May 10, 2011

Diamond Vogel® offers a premium industrial powder coating with Agion® brand Antimicrobial Product Protection. Peridium Powder Coatings with Agion® technology means cleaner surfaces 24/7.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Traci Simpson
(978) 499-9250 Ext. 234
agion@matternow.com

Sciessent, creator of naturally occurring silver-based antimicrobial brand Agion® today announced their partnership with Diamond Vogel, a leading manufacturer of industrial coatings to offer the Peridium® Powder Coatings line. The new Peridium line brings the quality and durability that industrial customers have found synonymous with the Vogel name, with the added benefit of Agion antimicrobial product protection. Agion technology inhibits the growth and propagation of bacteria on the surface of a product, adding an important layer of product protection to equipment and furnishings coated with the new Peridium powder coating line.

Diamond Vogel makes coatings specifically formulated to the manufacturing setting and the customers' requirements. The new Peridium Powder Coatings (including hybrid, polyester and epoxy technologies) with Agion technology is a powder coating made without water or petroleum based solvents, and is applied electrostatically and cured through a baking process. This performance feature in Peridium powder coatings is exhibited in excellent final hardness and abrasion resistance of the coating. Agion antimicrobial solution provides continuous product protection by releasing silver ions to the surface at a steady rate, and is designed to last the useful life of the product.

“We are pleased to partner with Sciessent to bring our newest line of coatings to market,” said Rick Achterhof, industrial product manager for Diamond Vogel. “By incorporating Agion antimicrobial technology in our Peridium powder line we can offer an additional level of performance to our industrial and healthcare product customers. Industrial products can be difficult to keep clean, especially when in heavy use. With Agion technology we can assure our customers that they are getting the freshest surface possible.”

“We are proud to partner with Diamond Vogel to bring antimicrobial product protection to their industrial / OEM customers,” said Paul Ford, chief executive officer of Agion Technologies. “We are pleased to join Vogel in offering an innovative feature to enhance new products.”

Peridium Powder Coatings with Agion antimicrobial technology are ideal for healthcare furnishings, fitness equipment, furniture fixtures and many other industrial applications. The new Peridium line will be available early this summer through Vogel sales representatives.

About Sciessent
Sciessent, located in Wakefield, Mass., is a leader in providing customized solutions that enhance the value of partners’ products. Sciessent’s Agion and Agion Active brands are based on silver and other naturally occurring elements and have been incorporated into a wide range of consumer, industrial and healthcare products, including cell phones, shoes, keyboards, water filters, medical catheters and ice machines. Sciessent's customers include many leading brands such as Dell, Motorola, Columbia, Adidas, PPG, Carrier and DuPont.

For more information about Sciessent, please visit www.sciessent.com; for the Agion brand, please visit www.agion-tech.com and www.agionactive.com and follow the Agion brand’s exciting consumer campaign on Facebook and/or Twitter.

About Vogel Paint
Vogel Paint is a manufacturer of paint and powder coatings based in Orange City, IA. Founded in 1926, it supplies coatings to the architectural, heavy-duty protective, industrial, traffic and powder coatings markets. Vogel Paint operates 7 manufacturing facilities in the central United States under brand names including Diamond Vogel®, Old Masters®, Van Sickle®, Peridium® Powder Coatings, Pinnacle® Protective Coatings and Axis® Performance Coatings.

Peridium powder coatings offer excellent application and performance characteristics. Our state-of-the-art technology and manufacturing facility allows for tightly controlled particle size distribution that provides extremely good first pass transfer, edge coverage and smoothness.

More information on Diamond Vogel can be found at www.diamondvogel.com  and www.peridiumpowder.com.

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ET-9369 1E1950 Black S/G TGIC Polyester is our newest product. This product was developed to meet the lower end specifications where cost is the deciding factor for selecting the product.

Special effect coatings include metallics, dimple/hammer textures, hammertone textures, vein textures and wrinkle finishes. Each of these requires extra training for painters to get the paint to look its best. Below is a breakdown to assist your customers or troubleshoot a problem.

Most of the problems associated with wrinkle finishes are not due to gun differences but film thickness variations, pretreatment rinse problems and overbake/underbake issues. Polyester wrinkle finishes will telegraph phosphate pretreatment lines if not rinsed properly. Make sure the parts do not have rinse lines. No matter what type of gun you use, controlling your film thickness is a must. Wrinkle finishes are best sprayed at 2.0–3.0 mils or at full hide, whichever is greater. Underbaking or overbaking could cause the wrinkle to not form properly. Run a Datapaq on the oven if the wrinkle isn’t forming properly. Polyester wrinkles need to be baked 10’ at 390°F PMT without any spikes to the 420°F range. Epoxy wrinkles are more forgiving for baking and pretreatment issues but they do not have the exterior durability.

Semigloss hammertone, dimple/hammer and vein texture finishes are more challenging to spray. Optimum film thickness for these textures is 3.0-3.5 mils. The most common problem is that the texture will look like it has holes or craters instead of a nice rolling texture. In this case, the gun is most likely not fully energizing the texture additive, try turning the kV up in the 75–100 kV range. If that doesn’t work, you need to turn down the powder flow. Essentially you need more kV per pound of applied powder. The additive needs to be charged well to do its job.

Metallics have similar problems to the hammer textures. You may need to adjust your kV and powder flow settings to get the correct look. The film thickness will also make a difference on how “bright” the metallic looks. Read the datasheet for the appropriate mils range for that particular product and adjust the gun settings to get your look.

Unless requested by the customer, the powder lab sprays special effect coatings with a Nordson Sure-Coat, 75kV, AFC off, 4 mm fan tip, 15 psi flow rate and 5 psi atomizing flow rate. Nordson has a manual on adjusting gun settings which is available from Industrial Sales.