SPECTRACRON 100 SERIES Acrylic Modified Alkyd Enamel is recommended for industrial use on pretreated or primed metal surfaces. This product is a fast drying interior/exterior coating that provides a wide balance of performance properties including excellent flow and leveling, film hardness, and exterior durability. Suitable applications include sheet metal fabrication, utility trailers, racking, machinery and heavy equipment. The 100 series product line is formulated lead and chrome free.

Hydro Aluminum North America offers a complete range of finishing options for your aluminum extruded components.

Finishes include polyester and acrylic enamel, epoxy, polyester and T.G.I.C. powder, as well as waterborne enamels in a variety of custom colors and textures. Complex finishes such as two-tone painting, textured, and skid-resistant paints are available as well as chrome phosphate pre-treatment and masking. And all options meet or exceed AAMA Standards 2603, 2604 or 2605.

Some of our finishing processes are completed in-house. Others are coordinated through cooperative arrangements with long-term partners. Either way, we provide top quality buffed, anodized, and painted finishes in a variety of colors.

To supplement our finishing services, we can design custom packaging solutions to make sure your product arrives safe, undamaged and ready to assemble. Taping, bundling, and labeling are but a few options that can be customized.

KEM 4000 High Solids Acrylic Alkyd Enamel from Sherwin-Williams is a high gloss, VOC-compliant acrylic alkyd enamel coating that dries quickly for rapid return to service. Due to its high solids formulation, less coating material is needed, resulting in both labor and materials savings.

KEM 4000 High Solids Alkyd Enamel dries to touch in 15 minutes. It provides good exterior color and gloss retention and good flexibility and film toughness. For interior or exterior use, KEM 4000 High Solids Alkyd Enamel offers excellent airless spray properties. For light service environments, it may be applied directly to steel without a primer.

KEM 4000 High Solids Alkyd Enamel can be tinted to a broad range of colors. The coating is ready to use with no mixing of additional components. It is recommended for general metal applications including steel decking, doors, farm equipment, pipe and construction and agricultural equipment.

Sherwin-Williams Industrial and Marine Coatings group serves North America with a broad line of high-performance coatings, comprehensive technical service, and the industry's largest distribution network.

Relying on more than 140 years of experience in formulating industrial coatings, the group provides cost-effective solutions for applications where extreme corrosion, abrasion and chemical attack are present. Visit Sherwin-Williams on the Internet at www.sherwin-williams.com/im.

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CLEVELAND (August 4, 2008) – A patchwork quilt of tightening environmental regulations governing the air emissions from protective coatings – also known as industrial maintenance coatings – can be challenging for specification writers, especially when so many changes are anticipated but still in development. But a regulatory compliance expert at Sherwin-Williams says there is a complete product line of already-proven products on the market meeting the requirements of Southern California, the most restrictive jurisdiction.

Madelyn Harding, corporate manager of regulatory affairs at Sherwin-Williams, says two years ago the company needed to prepare to supply its stores in Southern California with product, where South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) rules stipulate volatile organic compound (VOC) limits of 100 grams per liter (g/L) for industrial maintenance coatings.

"With the coatings industry's broadest distribution system, Sherwin-Williams invested early on in the environmentally responsible technologies necessary to comply with SCAQMD's stringent VOC limits," said Harding. She said these limits are much lower than anywhere else in North America.

"Specifiers working on projects today that could be affected in the future by anticipated, but still pending, emissions limits should know Sherwin-Williams is a resource," she said. "We have a complete product line of time-tested formulations – in acrylics, alkyds, epoxies, urethanes and zincs – that are compliant under even the most restrictive regulatory scenario."

Harding indicated that the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC), which has jurisdiction over 12 mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia, is expected to lower its current limits of 340 g/L to 250 g/L in the foreseeable future, and Canada has a

proposal for 340 g/L that will become effective by the end of 2009. In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is developing a proposed national rule with a 340 g/L limit, to be effective January 2010.

Sherwin-Williams is the only coatings company with a solvent-based alkyd topcoat – Pro Industrial™ Industrial Enamel 100 – that is compliant at 100 g/L, an extremely difficult level to achieve in an alkyd, Harding noted. It is also free of the air toxics known as Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPS), as are the majority of other Sherwin-Williams protective coatings products.