Coatings Ltd Research Articles

Agreement enables Hardide to offer local surface-engineering expertise in Korea

Hardide Coatings Ltd has entered into a marketing agency agreement to identify and develop business opportunities for its patented, advanced surface-coating technology in South Korea.

Key Hardide personnel co-author paper on tungsten/tungsten carbide coating

Two key personnel from Hardide Coatings Ltd – a Hardide Plc group company that develops and applies advanced surface coating technology – are co-authors of a paper, covering tungsten/tungsten carbide (W/WC) coatings deposited through chemical vapour deposition (CVD), that has been published in the journal Surface & Coatings Technology.

The introduction and operation of standard costing at J&P Coats Ltd., 1925–1961: an institutional interpretation

ABSTRACTThis study provides a history of the introduction and implementation of standard costing at J&P Coats Ltd, the British-based multinational thread manufacturers, between 1925 and 1961. By 1896, the firm had centralised sales and marketing, strategic and treasury management in its head office in Glasgow. The introduction of standard costing was intended to bring financial discipline within each of its home and overseas mills, to add to the central discipline and control which already existed across the company, as well as to facilitate some aspects of central accounting in Glasgow. The study ends in 1961, the year the company merged with Patons and Baldwins, another UK-based textile firm. As a theoretical lens, our history uses institutional theory, as it affects an understanding of the implementation and operation of new management accounting systems. In particular, we explore the concept that the development and use of new accounting systems may well be conditioned by both external and internal ‘institutions’, or ‘ways of doing things’. The Coats study responds to the call for longitudinal analyses of management accounting innovation from an institutional point of view. It shows how institutional factors affected the implementation and use of standard costing within the firm, operating through human actors and changing organisational structures. In addition, the study adds to what is known about the history and chronology of the development of standard costing in the UK, pointing out similarities and differences between what happened at Coats and other adopters. It underscores that what is known about the installation and usage of costing systems would benefit from an understanding of the institutional factors involved.

Stitching it up: accounting and financial control at J & P Coats Ltd, c1890—1960

This study looks at the hitherto unexamined accounting and financial arrangements that undergirded the management of J & P Coats Ltd, one of Britain's largest and most successful multinational companies, from 1890 to 1960. Four elements of Coats' financial systems are scrutinized: consolidation accounting, the control and funding of subsidiaries, private ledgers and, finally, management accounting practices. The contribution of each to detailed organizational control and the maintenance of secrecy/ confidentiality is analysed. The article concludes that each element contributed substantially to these objectives. The study has implications for the debate on British entrepreneurial failure, in which it is alleged by some writers that Britain's family-owned holding and subsidiary-type companies did not achieve their potential. It makes it clear that Coats was highly successful, in part due to its tight accounting systems and controls. The study opens up the possibility that other examples may be found where successful British businesses based on family capital relied on similar management and accounting controls.

Becker Powder Coatings Ltd gains LUL approval

Becker Powder Coatings Ltd gains LUL approval

The growth, development and management of J. & P. Coats Ltd, c.1890–1960: An analysis of strategy and structure

The purpose of this article is to investigate the management of one of Britain's most important multinational companies, J. & P. Coats Ltd, in the period 1890–1960, a topic which has not hitherto been examined in detail. In particular, the article examines the system of committees that the enterprise used to control and direct its disparate empire over the time period concerned. As a theoretical focus, the study compares what is found in the writings of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., who held that, in general, British family capital and management inhibited business growth and development, especially when compared with firms in the USA. The article concludes that Coats did not fit this interpretation. It provides the first in-depth study of the management of one of Britain's largest and most successful multinational companies, clarifying the relationships between organizational structure and financial arrangements, concluding that Coats' approach to management, although in some ways unique, was appropriate to its aims.

Dry Sliding Wear of TiNx PVD Coating on 7075-T6 Aluminium Alloy

The present paper studies the dry sliding wear behaviour of a 7075-T6 aluminium alloy coated with a substoichiometric TiNx film. The coating was deposited industrially (Teer Coatings Ltd) using the closed field unbalanced magnetron sputtering ion plating (CFUBMSIP) deposition technique. Coating characteristics such as morphology, thickness, compositional variation with thickness, residual stress, composite hardness and absolute hardness are also presented. The wear tests were conducted in a ball on disc tribometer, where a constant sliding velocity of 0.1 m s–1 and normal loads of 1, 2 and 5 N were used. The static counterparts employed during the test were 6 mm diameter balls made of AISI type 52100 steel. For comparison, the wear behaviour of the uncoated alloy is also reported. Both the maximum Herztian pressure and the von Mises stress values in the TiN coated aluminium alloy for each normal load used during the wear test were calculated, employing a commercially available software package Elastica 2.0.5, and the results were related to the wear performance. It was shown that the coated alloy presented an improved wear resistance only when the wear tests were performed at normal loads as low as 1 and 2 N, when the material from the static counterpart was transferred to the surface of the coated discs, and the TiN coating was able to protect the aluminium alloy from plastic deformation. However, when the wear test was carried out at a load of 5 N, the coating presented low wear resistance with a wear coefficient as low as 10–4 mm3 (N m)–1. This behaviour could be attributed to the fact that, in these conditions, the coating could not protect the substrate from plastic flow and fracture, producing a large amount of debris, which contributed to the abrasive wear of the system. SE/S277

Prism Powder Coatings Ltd.

Prism Powder Coatings Ltd.

Temporal and spatial variation in the fouling of silicone coatings in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

An antifouling or foul‐release coating cannot be globally effective if it does not perform well in a range of environmental conditions, against a diversity of fouling organisms. From 1996 to 1998, the field test sites participating in the United States Navy's Office of Naval Research 6.2 Biofouling program examined global variation in the performance of 3 silicone foul‐release coatings, viz. GE RTV11, Dow Corning RTV 3140, and Intersleek (International Coatings Ltd), together with a control anticorrosive coating (Ameron Protective Coatings F‐150 series). At the University of Hawaii's test site in Pearl Harbor, significant differences were observed among the coatings in the rate of accumulation of fouling. The control coating failed rapidly; after 180–220 d immersion a community dominated by molluscs and sponges developed that persisted for the remainder of the experiment. Fouling of the GE and Dow Corning silicone coatings was slower, but eventually reached a similar community structure and coverage as the control coatings. The Intersleek coating remained lightly fouled throughout the experiment. Spatial variation in the structure of the community fouling the coatings was observed, but not in the extent of fouling. The rate of accumulation of fouling reflected differences among the coatings in adhesion of the tubeworm Hydroides elegans. The surface properties of these coatings may have affected the rate of fouling and the structure of the fouling community through their influence on larval settlement and subsequent interactions with other residents, predators, and the physical environment.

Measurement of a Stiffening Layer Density by Acoustic Microscopy

Measurement of a Stiffening Layer Density by Acoustic Microscopy

Tribological behaviour of high performance MoS2 coatings produced by magnetron sputtering

Abstract A series of new MoS 2 coatings have been developed at Teer Coatings Ltd. It has been proved that the new deposition method enhances the coating performance and the reproducibility of the coating properties for different depositions. The new films are harder and with better tribological properties than films previously reported. The films show even better performance when the MoS 2 is deposited onto a harder layer, such as TiN or DLC. Different tests were carried out on these coatings. Some of them were performed in laboratory conditions, such as pin-on-disc, standard scratch and multiscratch. Others were carried out in real performance tests such as drilling into Al-14%Si and 304 stainless steel, stamping coins, and automobile spline gears. In all of these applications the coating performed better that any other standard coatings.

Industry

Controlled gloss levels and colour consistency were among the factors that led high technology instrument makers Ometron, in consultation with sub‐contractors Plastic Coatings Ltd, to choose Whitford Plastics Ltd's Xylan 1010 and Xylan 4500 fluoropolymer coatings for the surface finish of the aluminium housing on their “VPI Sensor” scanning laser vibrometer.

Munkebo units reduce costs at A.S.C.

Advanced Surface Coatings Ltd, one of the south's leading abrasive blast cleaning, metal spraying and surface coating contractors, has installed two Munkebo MB‐150E vacuum recovery abrasive recycling units at their Alresford, Hampshire works. The units are being used in conjunction with Clemco Contractor NC 2452 blast cleaning machines to provide an automatic abrasive blast cleaning and media recovery/cleaning facility.

Materials

Buildings in Europe can now benefit from the durability and high gloss characteristics of paints based on ‘Lumiflon’ fluoro‐resins — manufactured Asahi Glass in Japan and marketed solely by ICI Resins in Europe. LVH Coatings Ltd of Birmingham, UK, has already supplied prestige coatings for two buildings in the north of England.

Anti‐corrosion finishes from Plastic Coatings

Custom coaters Plastic Coatings Ltd, of Guildford, Surrey, have announced two new anti‐corrosion finishes. Based on polymer alloys developed by sister company Plascoat Systems, the Permasint range of fusion bonded coatings is available only from Plastic Coatings.

Cost Effective Recipe Formulation

Journal of the Society of Dyers and ColouristsVolume 96, Issue 4 p. 177-184 Cost Effective Recipe Formulation J. F. Mackin, J. F. Mackin J & P Coats Ltd Research Laboratory Paisley ScotlandSearch for more papers by this authorJ. A. Purves, J. A. Purves J & P Coats Ltd Research Laboratory Paisley ScotlandSearch for more papers by this author J. F. Mackin, J. F. Mackin J & P Coats Ltd Research Laboratory Paisley ScotlandSearch for more papers by this authorJ. A. Purves, J. A. Purves J & P Coats Ltd Research Laboratory Paisley ScotlandSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1980 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-4408.1980.tb03521.xCitations: 5AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume96, Issue4April 1980Pages 177-184 RelatedInformation

The Use of Non‐aqueous Solvents in Dyeing I ‐ Dyeing Polyester Fibre by the Dacsol Process

The Dacsol process (J. & P. Coats Ltd) is a totally non‐aqueous system designed principally for dyeing polyester fibre with existing disperse dyes, thus enabling fastness levels to be maintained. It is a bicomponent homogeneous system using perchloroethylene and a silicone fluid. Dyeing takes place in a pressurized dyeing machine at elevated temperatures and for times as low as 30 min. Residual solvent and surface dye are removed by rinsing with acetone, which facilitates steam drying. It is a dry‐to‐dry process. The dyeing and rinsing solvents are recovered by decolorizing with activated carbon and by distillation.

Pipeline Round‐up, Products, Processes, Equipment

Coating concrete pipes Metallic Coatings Ltd, of Manchester Airport South Site Works, Wilmslow, Cheshire, report that they are currently developing in two areas:

Dye Selection and Combination

Journal of the Society of Dyers and ColouristsVolume 91, Issue 3 p. 75-80 Dye Selection and Combination J.F. Mackin, J.F. Mackin J. & P. Coats Ltd Research Laboratory Paisley ScotlandSearch for more papers by this author J.F. Mackin, J.F. Mackin J. & P. Coats Ltd Research Laboratory Paisley ScotlandSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1975 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-4408.1975.tb03233.xCitations: 9AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume91, Issue3March 1975Pages 75-80 RelatedInformation