Chapter 9
I Introduction
II The Australian Chemical Industry
III Pharmaceuticals
IV Chemists In Other Industries
V The Dawn Of Modern Chemical Industry - High Pressure Synthesis
VI The Growth Of Synthetic Chemicals - Concentration, Rationalisation And International Links
VII Australian Industrial Chemical Research Laboratories
VIII The Plastics Industry
IX The Paint Industry
i The pioneers
ii The early years - home- and trade-made paints
iii Industrial manufacture
iv Some important developments in the 1920s and 30s
v Rapid growth in the 1950s and 60s
vi Some Australian inventions
vii Recent trends
viii Pigments manufacture
ix Trends in the chemical industry in the 1980s
X Acknowledgements
References
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Recent trends (continued)
In line with trends overseas, very bright and glossy car finishes so-called 'clear-on-base' finishes were introduced in Australia in the seventies. They rely on the spray application of a high metallic flake containing coloured basecoat. This 'freezes', which induces maximum orientation and hence brightness of the aluminium flakes before a further protective coat of durable clear lacquer is put over it. These systems, often applied with electrostatic spray guns, are supplied increasingly to the mass production automotive industry.
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