International Paint eliminates coal tar epoxies.International Paint LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Houston, TX, has announced a voluntary company-wide initiative to remove coal tar coal tar, product of the destructive distillation of bituminous coal. Coal tar can be distilled into many fractions to yield a number of useful organic products, including benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene, anthracene, and phenanthrene. epoxies (CTEs) from its coatings product line due to VOC (Vertical Online Community) See vertical portal. emissions and health concerns. The CTE (Coefficient of Thermal Expansion) The difference between the way two materials expand when heat is applied. This is very critical when chips are mounted to printed circuit boards, because the silicon chip expands at a different rate than the plastic board. removal initiative went into effect in the first quarter of 2005 and International Paint estimates that CTEs will successfully be removed from its entire coatings line by 2006. The company has introduced more than a dozen pure epoxy and modified epoxy products to its coatings line, which are alternatives to CTEs. |
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