Bayer MaterialScience Establishes UV Center of Excellence
Center Underscores Bayer MaterialScience's Leadership in Advancing UV Curing Technology
The center includes a research and development laboratory housed on Bayer MaterialScience's Pittsburgh campus and equipped with high throughput screening equipment capable of evaluating 40,000 formulations in as little as three weeks, an automated miniature spray setup and a surface hardness tester. This lab is complemented by a full-scale spray and application facility - including a pilot production line operated by full-time spray experts from the Spray Technology Group - located near Bayer MaterialScience's Pittsburgh campus.
UV curing is already used in a number of diverse applications, including coatings on compact discs, magazine covers, plastics and composites for example. With the center, Bayer MaterialScience aims to further advance UV curing technology. One initial research and development effort is focused on the automotive refinish market. As the low-intensity UV lamp technology continues to advance with the investigation of alternative lighting sources - fluorescent tubes and LEDs - the objective is to move from smaller, spot repairs to large-scale repairs, with the eventual goal of converting "end of the line OEM repair" to this technology.
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