Case Study
The peeling Coating
A chemical company had been making a surface coating polymer to the same formulation for several years with considerable success. The use of the coating was seasonal and so most of the manufacture of the coating was over a short period of time. One year several customers com- plained that after a few weeks of use the surface coating was beginning to lift, particularly in areas subjected to abrasion – a problem that had never been seen before. Exa