Introduction

• The Coil Coating Process
• Market Needs
• Technology options - Who is doing what?

The Aluminium Substrate

• Production of sheet (casting, rolling, finishing)
• Metallurgy basics: commonly used alloys.
• Recycling
• Alloys, designations and tempers

Cleaning

• What cleaners are available?
• Alloy dependency
• Relative performance
• Reaction mechanisms
• Critical control parameters/ measurement
• Near Surface Active Regions

Pretreatment

• Currently used pretreatments
• Application methods - including pros and cons
• Reaction mechanisms
• Critical control parameters/ measurement
• Non-Cr pretreatments - the challenge?
• Legislation

Coatings

     CES/Packaging

• Currently used lacquers
• In-plant testing
• Customer acceptance tests
• Legislation / consumer issues i.e. BADGE etc
• Future directions

     Architectural

• Currently used paints
• Release tests
• Corrosion mechanisms (inc. filiform)
• Future directions

Adhesion

• Mechanisms of adhesion and failures

Strategic

• Future market trends
• System solution to meet changing market and environmental demands

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