ISSUE 1/2012




Brazing Events 2012




NOCOLOK NEWS

presents information for NOCOLOK users.

Publisher:
Solvay Fluor GmbH
Hans-Böckler-Allee 20
30173 Hannover/Germany

Place: Hannover
Register:
Hannover HRB 53686
Managing Directors:
Dr. Andreas H. Meier (Chairman)
Dr. Johannes Eicher

Boards of Directors:
Bernard de Laguiche (Chairman)

e-mail: nocolok@solvay.com

Editorial:
Solvay Fluor GmbH,
Department SFLU-RBUSI
e-mail: hans.swidersky@solvay.com

Production:
Ahlers Heinel Werbeagentur GmbH,
Hannover
www.ahlersheinel.de
nocolok@ahlersheinel.de

NOCOLOK® is a registered Trademarkof Solvay Fluor GmbH




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New Newsletter

Dear NOCOLOK News readers,

This is the first edition of the NOCOLOK News in the new newsletter format. In the future the NOCOLOK Team would like to provide you with the latest information about aluminium brazing more frequently by e-mail.

The new format is easier to handle – you no longer need to download a PDF file, you can read the newsletter directly in your mail program. To make the NOCOLOK newsletter even more attractive, we would like to know what is of interest to you and which topics would you like to read about in the NOCOLOK news.

We look forward to your feedback!

Enjoy your reading

Werner Schmitt

P.S. There is still one more point to make. We want to constantly improve for our customers and are therefore particularly interested in your opinion. Please participate in our survey! We would like to reward you for the five minutes of your time spent taking part: among all participants who take part in 2012 we will raffle an iPad 3 with 32GB storage space and in addition an iPod Nano will be raffled each quarter.

Click here for the survey



NOCOLOK follows REACH

Registration status

NOCOLOK Flux is registered under the chemical name potassium aluminium fluorides by the ECHA (European Chemical Agency) since 1 December 2010.

Solvay Fluor submitted all data required for the registration and NOCOLOK was re-classified by the ECHA and was provided with warning notices for the GHS system. Since then all case packs with new standardized labels and new SDS (Safety Data Sheets) are available for users.

All chemical products with an annual production of up to 1,000 tons per year must be registered with the ECHA by 1 June 2013.

Presently, the preparations for NOCOLOK Zn Flux are in progress, the first required data has been submitted.



AHR EXPO Review

Chicago 2012

The AHR Show in Chicago in late January 2012 was visited by almost 60,000 trade visitors from the refrigeration and air-conditioning sectors. Nearly 2,000 exhibitors, among them Solvay Fluorides, presented the latest developments in air-conditioning technology.

The trend towards lighter and more efficient aluminium heat exchangers continues. This time, in addition to NOCOLOK, Solvay Fluorides also presents the refrigerants from the SOLKANE series. Visitors to the Solvay booth were particularly enthusiastic about the NOCOLOK and SOLKANE app.

Intensive contact with the customers is most important for Werner Schmitt, head of marketing at Solvay Fluor: “The AHR was once again a great success for us, we had many interesting conversations with opinion leaders in the supply chain, and we will be present at the next show in 2013 in Dallas.”




NOCOLOK® Pioneered Flux Technology -

Connected Thinking

Solvay Fluor is the leading pioneer for aluminium brazing – and has been for years. With our revolutionary NOCOLOK Flux we are the global market leader and trendsetter – our customers know: “NOCOLOK products are more than just a flux!” A wide net of specialists stretches across the globe locally supporting our customers. And, our research technologists continue to develop the best flux for your application. Connected global thinking and local support. NOCOLOK Flux without frontiers.

Under the motto “Connected global thinking and local support” we introduce you two members of the NOCOLOK team



Marc Lacroix coordinates the inorganic research activities of the Global Business Unit, Solvay Special Chemicals from Hannover. The NOCOLOK products therefore belong to his research area. Mr. Lacroix brings his extensive know-how about inorganic specialties and sees the NOCOLOK research from a different perspective, thus bringing many additional ideas and approaches. He knows all the inorganic laboratories at the Solvay sites and sees synergies arising. For example, the laboratory at the Hönningen plant where research is currently being carried out on projects in the areas of viscosity and particle sizes for NOCOLOK.



Dan Lauzon will join again the NOCOLOK and inorganic products team at Solvay Fluorides (USA) together with Ken Neugebauer and Manos Eliades. Beside their Sales activities the team will also ensure Global Technical Service and contribute to the expansion of the NOCOLOK related products worldwide and especially in Asia. Dan Lauzon is NOCOLOK specialist and spent several years in Seoul, South Korea with establishing the local production of NOCOLOK. The NOCOLOK team welcomes Dan’s return.



New glass brazing furnace in the

NOCOLOK Technical Center

Many visitors to seminars, trade shows or videos are already familiar with the test glass brazing furnace in the NOCOLOK Technical Center. The unique furnace now has a big brother. All components of the new test furnace, except for the radiant heater, were developed in own production at Solvay.

The fluorine research workshop in Hannover has done an excellent job, “The construction of such a furnace is only possible with the tremendous expertise of the colleagues in the test workshop,” says Andreas Becker, a Solvay Fluor research employee. “With the new glass furnace, it is possible to braze larger objects, such as aluminium wafers for refrigerant test series for automobile producers.”

Specially developed software can capture every stage of the brazing process as high-resolution images – so that not even the tiniest detail of the brazing process can escape the testers. The new furnace saves energy and time – test brazing series with larger objects no longer require the much larger Camlaw brazing furnace at the Technical Center.

The next stage of development is already being planned: in a unique process Solvay’s glass blowers have succeeded in forming a square glass body, which offers even more space for larger items.

An overview of all services from the NOCOLOK Technical Center is offered in the new brochure, which is available for download.