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PRODUCTS & PROCESSES Development of new TQC products in full swing Dutch manufacturer TQC designs and produces field measuring instruments and lab equipment for testing paint coatings and general surfaces/treatments. TQC’s objective is to create and offer solutions for every possible quality control application in surface technology, not by just producing products similar to other brands, but also by designing their own innovative products from scratch. Many new projects Exciting products The R&D department is currently working on a variety of new products that will be released later this year. Among those a ViscoThinner and a low voltage pinhole detector. The production of TQC’s permeability cup and a basic version of the Washability Test has just been completed. Currently the most exciting project within the TQC R&D team is the development of the TQC CureView Thermal Test Centre, which runs in close collaboration with a number of global players in the resin and additives industry. The CureView is a flexible oven that allows the user to heatup test panels in a variety of patterns to temperatures varying from ambient to over 300°C. Profiles measured by the CurveX oven logger system can be uploaded to the CureView in order to duplicate a production process on a lab scale. Twenty years experience Twenty years after the first CurveX Oven Logger, the new CurveX 3 Oven Logger Basic is about to be released. This new oven data tracker is fitted with three large buttons for easy operation and three LEDs, giving power, paint type, logging and cure information. Next year its big brother, an advanced model, is scheduled for production. If you would like to find out more about TQC and their range of products for 2014 they will be happy to send you their brochure free of charge. Please send an e-mail with your address details to Janet at TQC UK: [email protected] Or you can visit www.tqc.eu for the full product range. Testing of the Washability Prototype in TQC’s own laboratory TQC’s R&D team works on the CureView 58 May 2014 follow us on Twitter @surfaceworldmag