Revista Paint & Pintura - Edição 241

CLIPPING 8 | PAINT&PINTURA | Março 2019 managers, namely, Edson Tognin, head of R&D, Quality and Processes at Tintas Hidracor, Fernando Pinheiro, Research & Development manager at Tintas Iquine, Hidrotintas’ chemist Francisco Baptista, and João Batista Braga de Oliveira, Tintas Lux technical manager. Throughout the two-day event, technical lectures will also be presented major suppliers to the paint and coatings industry, who will not only be introducing and discussing their new developments at their lectures, but will also have an exhibit space to demonstrate those products and receive the visiting audiences. This issue includes the schedule of lectures for the event. PAINT & PINTURA AWARDS NORTH & NORTHEAST - REGIONAL INDUSTRY “OSCAR” NIGHT IN RECIFE The awardwinners will be presentedwith their trophies in the evening of March 15 at the events venue Arcádia Recepções, in Recife, Pernambuco. The 2nd Paint &Pintura Regional Awards, North & Northeast are divided into 22 categories, including suppliers of raw materials, paint companies and industry personalities. Representatives of leading companies based in Brazil’s North and Northeast regions will in attendance, as will the leadership of industry associations. The vote on the 2nd Paint & Pintura Regional Awards, North &Northeast was online, on the Paint Showweb portal (www. paintshow.com.br) , where professionals at paint companies voted for the suppliers and personalities who they thought stood out in 2018. For the Decorative Paint Company category, the vote was cast by representatives of suppliers. Phase one of the survey commenced in November 12, 2018 and ended on December 20, 2018. To determine the winners in the Per- sonality of the Year categories, phase two of the survey was conducted, allowing respondents to vote until January 18, earlier this year. The event is a regional version of the Paint & Pintura Awards, which are in their 23rd edition this year and are acknowledged as the “Oscar” of the paint and coatings industry, and were created by Agnelo Editora to honor the companies supplying the industry with rawmaterials, as well as the professionals of the industry, in the North and Northeast. These two regions have been developing each year and experiencing significant growth across the board in the manufacturing sector, espe- cially in the paint and coatings industry. This issue brings you the winners of the 2nd Paint & Pintura Regional Awards, North & Northeast. TITANIUM DIOXIDE - UNMATCHED HIDING POWER Titanium dioxide continues to stand out by a long stretch in the paint and coatings industry thanks to their key properties. Regarded as one of the most important pigments in the paint industry, titanium dioxide is a unique product whose key pro- perties make for exceptional quality paints and coatings, chief among which is their great hiding power. The Brazilianmarket in titaniumdioxide is driven by the techni- cal requirements for the paints that are locally produced. There still is plenty of room for the technological development of paints and coatings in Brazil, as there are new product classes and existing products featuring enhanced performance that have yet to be introduced. For more than 80 years, Chemours has been producing superior titanium dioxide pigments that enable quality paints to meet the needs and requirements of professional painters as well as the market itself around the globe, according to Claudia de Almeida Antunes, BusinessMa- nager, Titanium Technologies, at Chemours Brazil, who adds, “As part of this process, we are committed to collaborating with our customers in these developments.” The coatings industry does nowand has always demanded pig- ments featuring high hiding power, both dry and wet, as well as easy dispersion during the process, brightness, high tinting strength and durability. “These are properties that continue to be key in paint formulations, and our products based on the Ti-Pure technology undergo organic surface treatments that enable them to deliver greater ‘dispersion efficiency’ in the process, which makes for improved performance by enhancing the properties of the finished paint, among them hiding power, gloss, tinting strength, brightness and durabili- ty,” Claudia concludes. PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT - MILLS, DISPENSERS & MIXERS - TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT Technology, automation and durable production equipment for paints and coatings are what manufacturers have been in themarket for. The next few years are expected to see awave facility renewals and capacity expansions. “Manufacturers are looking to buy new equipment that improves productivity through automation and durability, but they want to do it at a low cost, too. There is an ongoing search for equipment that delivers high performance at affordable costs, and that’s no easy equation. But when we roll all of our process technology into one piece of equipment, we can ensure productivity with the help of milling process tools, so they’re searching for us. As the name itself suggests - Custom Milling and Consulting- CMC Brazil specializes in the milling process. We’re not only manufacturers, but also process experts,” says chief executive José Ricardo Giacobelli. ETL Engenharia’s chief executive Edson Barbosa says that the major challenges in this market are to implement highly automated processes, integrate process segments and adjust investment amounts to the business of customers. “As we design production plants, we select the equipment according to sales and production line implementation plans, keeping pace with the marketplace and how it evolves.