Tutorial VI: Low VOC Technologies

Patrick Mormile and Gregory G. Menovcik, BASF Corporation

Monday, June 2, 2008
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Breakout Room 219 A/B

In a growing number of applications, legislative as well as customer demands call for effective measures to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds from coatings formulations and/or coating processes. Our focused tutorial will highlight and discuss the different technologies that are currently being put forward to achieve such low VOC systems. These include high-solid, waterborne and powder coatings systems, but also other approaches such as reclamation, the effects of good training and operational practices, in addition to efforts to re-define VOCs.

Patrick Mormile is Technical Manager for Innovation in the Automotive OEM Coatings Solutions Group of BASF Corporation. He has over thirty years of experience in coatings and has held positions in development, applications and technical management in all three of BASF’s coatings businesses; Automotive OEM, Automotive Refinish, and Industrial Coil. As part of his present position, he is responsible for “idea-interfacing” within the BASF technical community, both inside and outside of coatings.