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Bringing Innovation to the Surface

PPG - "ALLTECH ENGINEEREDFINISHES" in Taiwan celebrating 10thanniversary service

From left to right: PPG Quality Engineer: Hank Huang, PPG Business Director: Clark
Tsai, PPG Business Manager: Julia Lin, Chiou Yang Co.: Judith Chao, PPG Commercial
Assistant: Sophie Lin

Over the past 25 years, the Taiwan fastener industry has matured
from supplying standard parts to highly complex fastening products.
Taiwan is now the global “fastener capital”, providing its products toover 200 countries on 5 continents. It was Taiwan’s global presencein the market that enticed PPG to open a fastener electrocoat
application factory there. Alltech Engineered Finishes is the only
PPG applicator in the Asia market. Alltech Engineered Finishes
is centrally located in Kaohsiung and opened in 2006. Alltech
provides finish services to the construction, automotive, and lightindustrial markets. This year, Alltech celebrates its 10th anniversaryin operation!

PPG – Bringing Innovation to the Surface
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PPG supplies paints, industrial
coatings, chemicals and glass products to global customers in theconstruction, heavy duty equipment, automotive, transportation,appliance and consumer products industries. Founded in 1883, PPG
employs 47,000 people globally and is the world’s largest coatingscompany. In 1976 PPG pioneered the development of cathodic andanodic electrocoat technology for use in the automotive industry.
PPG coatings are recognized as the leaders in the industry. In
addition to thousands of patents, PPG continues to develop its
product lines through its own research and development center inAllison Park, PA.

PPG technical support is acomplete global network. In
Taiwan, Alltech EngineeredFinishes is a major cog for Asia
Pacific. Julia Lin, PPG Business
Manager for Alltech describes
the Alltech mission as "flying
down from the sky, hit theground running. We know thatas long as there are productswith rust/corrosion andappearance requirements, you
can find PPG for help. More
importantly, Alltech provides
an environmentally friendly
process and product to meet ourcustomer demands”.

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Electrodeposition Coatings???
Find out more…
For years, the automotive andaerospace industries have demanded theelectrocoat technology. Electrocoat is apaint consisting of water based solutionof pigment, resin, water and additives.
Application deposition can be anodic or
cathodic. Electrocoat products can beepoxy based, acrylic based, or a hybridof both. Each type of electrocoat has its
specialty end use and advantages.

Upgrade coating quality
Fasteners and small metal parts canbe uniformly coated to avoid recess fillor thread galling product problems, PPG
Alltech uses the latest generation ofcathodic epoxy electrocoat for coating
fasteners and small metal parts.

Excellent corrosion resistanceDifferent requirements require
flexibility of performance. PPG
electrocoat systems can reach a salt spraycorrosion resistance for 2000 hours ormore, and have the ability to reach aminimum of 15 cycles of Kesternich test.

Torque modification coating
PPG electrocoat is also offered at Alltech with a built in
torque modifier, easing installation and meeting the torquetension demands of various industries.

Environmentally Friendly Operation and ProductLooking into the future, Alltech is very optimistic about
Taiwan's fastener market. By continuing to look forward,
PPG and PPG Alltech strive to improve on its offerings
to enhance its manufacturing sustainability. Throughmonitoring its process and product, Alltech hopes it isplanting the seed to help the Taiwan fastener dominancecontinue.