... book chapter by Denis Monnette from Canada about the state-of-the-art coating removal technologies in the aerospace industry [1]. This explains how in North America DCM was substituted in the early 1980s because of concerns about health and environmental risks, However, this was not the case in the UK where Mr Wood and his colleagues were using this paint stripper in the early 1990s and it is only from 6 June 2012 that all use of DCM-based paint strippers by professionals outside industrial installations will have to cease. Use in industrial situations can continue with certain restrictions. Monnette describes the various alternative technologies for paint stripping. He highlights that the increasing popularity in the aerospace industry of dry-stripping using plastic and other abrasives delivered in a compressed air jet and bio-based techniques for dry-stripping with hydrothermally extruded wheat starch. These approaches are said to be intrinsically safer than the chemical-based strippers. The removal of chromium and other toxic materials from coating systems is also helping to make dry-stripping processes safer. Denis Monette is speaking about all of this at the Surfair conference on 31st May and 1st June 2012 in Biarritz, France.Read on at:
http://johncherrie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/safe-stripping.html
http://johncherrie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/safe-stripping.html