enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sherwin-Williams - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwin-Williams

    On July 6, 2011, Sherwin-Williams acquired Leighs Paints, based in Bolton UK, manufacturers of intumescent and high performance industrial coatings. [22] On June 4, 2012, Sherwin-Williams acquired Geocel Holdings Corp for an undisclosed amount. [23] Sherwin-Williams acquired the Valspar Corporation on March 20, 2016, for $11.3 billion. [24]

  3. Drawdown chart - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawdown_chart

    Initially the desired coating is applied in a puddle on the drawdown chart. Then the bar is placed at the top of the chart, and drawn down over the paint in order to spread it evenly along the length of the chart. Once this evenly spread paint dries, it can be tested for a variety of properties. [5]

  4. Dutch Boy Paint - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Boy_Paint

    The Dutch Boy Group is a paint manufacturing company currently headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.Founded in 1907 by the National Lead Company, the Dutch Boy Paints brand is currently a subsidiary of the Consumer Group division of the Sherwin-Williams Company, which acquired it in 1980, two years after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's directive banning the manufacturing of lead ...

  5. Paint sheen - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_sheen

    The sheen [4] or gloss level of a paint is principally determined by the ratio of resinous, adhesive binder, which solidifies after drying, and solid, powdery pigment.The more binder the coating contains, the more regular reflection will be made from its smooth surface; conversely, with less binder, grains of pigment become exposed to the surface, scattering the light and providing matte ...

  6. Glidden (paints) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glidden_(paints)

    Glidden is an American paint brand, manufactured by PPG Industries.. Glidden was purchased by British conglomerate ICI in 1986, which in turn was later acquired by Dutch conglomerate AkzoNobel in 2008.

  7. Loom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom

    The shed of a jack loom is smaller for a given length of warp being pulled aside by the heddles (loom depth). The warp threads being pulled up by the jacks are also tauter than the other warp threads (unlike a counter balance loom, where the threads are pulled an equal amount in opposite directions). Uneven tension makes weaving evenly harder.

  8. Band weaving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_weaving

    The loom is characterized by a wooden framework upon which dowels have been fastened. These dowels will hold the warp threads when the loom has been dressed. One of the dowels, or a paddle, is constructed so that its position can be adjusted. This tensioning device will be taken in as weaving commences and the warp threads become shorter.

  9. Lloyd Loom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Loom

    Set of St. Tropez chairs in Lloyd Loom. During the fallow period between 1951 and the late 1990s a raft of commercial furniture producers entered the Lloyd Loom marketplace, such as the now defunct Lloyd Loom of Spalding in the United Kingdom and Vincent Sheppard in Belgium. A number of Lloyd Loom manufacturers and retailers both in the UK and ...