March 2012

Biotech companies must comply with complex regulatory requirements mandated by federal, state, and local agencies. Larger firms employ full-time professional staff to manage these responsibilities. Small and mid-size firms often cannot afford the expense or dedicate the manpower to fully meet these requirements, and are at an increased risk of violations and sanctions.

 The “Steam Trap Designer’s Guide,” 3rd edition, has been written to help engineers, facility managers, maintenance managers, and equipment buyers in the design, specification and purchasing of steam traps. It contains application and specification information on industrial and sanitary steam and compressed air products, as well as a steam trap primer for selecting the correct traps and related products for a particular application.

This 92-page catalog provides an overview of level measurement products and technology for water and wastewater applications. It highlights a full range of level- and open-channel flow-measurement and sludge-blanket monitoring solutions, and looks at the eight different level-measurement technologies the company offers: radio-frequency (RF) admittance, radar, magnetostrictive, vibration, ultrasonic, time domain refractometry (TDR), hydrostatic pressure, and gap switch.It also provides information on wireless interface solutions.

 “The Chemistry of Polyurethane Coatings” provides background information on the chemistry of various polyurethane coating systems. Specific chemistries include powder coatings, waterborne polyurethane coatings, radiation-curable coating technologies, two-component coating systems, and moisture-curing one-component coatings. It also highlights common nomenclature of the Desmophen, Desmodur and Bayhydur raw materials used to formulate the coatings, and formulating aids, such as modifiers, solvents, pigments, extenders and flattening agents.