VersaFlex Incorporated is pleased to announce that Jamie House has led ISO certification and headed the Kansas City production quality control team to successful completion of our ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System. Jamie will now turn his attention to our Houston PolyVers International facility.With his leadership it is fully expected that Houston should ease into its certification in the shortest possible time. With both our primary plants certified in the United States, VersaFlex and PolyVers will be better able to serve our customers.
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Primeaux releases his Thoughts on Polyurea
The man who started it all gives his understanding of the basics of polyurea chemistry.
The polyurea elastomer coating / lining technology has shown some very significant inroads since the introduction of the technology back in the late 1980’s. Initially, the polyurea technology had set itself in a different class of coating / lining systems as compared to conventional urethane coating / lining systems. This has been primarily due to the unique characteristics of the technology, both in processing and performance. However; over the years there has been a melding of the various technologies, and many have now classified or implied that polyureas are the same as urethane and/or urethane/urea systems. There is now a new class of polyurea systems that have different processing characteristics and some feel that these are not polyurea systems at all. “They can’t be” people say since you don’t need the high-pressure plural component processing equipment for application. This has led to some reluctance on the part of engineers and specifiers to confidently specify polyurea systems for projects. As a result, there has been some major confusion as to what classifies a system as a polyurea and, what is not. This paper will take a look at the polyurea technology, formulation basics; and, compare that to what a polyurethane and polyurethane/polyurea system is, along with some performance issues.
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