Technical Sessions

Several parallel technical sessions will occur on workshop Day 1 and Day 2.  These forums will include presentations by technology experts and by members of current P2 projects.  Individual sessions will comprise single or complementary technical areas, to include the following:

• Surface Treatment Technologies 

• Paints & Coating Technologies & Depainting 

• Green Electronics (Lead-Free Solder, etc.)

• Printing Materials and Technologies

Discussions will focus on the work of collaborative projects involving NASA, U.S. Department of Defense, and other U.S. and international agencies and industry associations who have implemented or are currently evaluating commercially available and newer materials and processes that reduce the environmental and worker safety risks of the manufacturing or maintenance process.  Workshop attendees will hear about:

• Practical solutions for common P2 problems
• Implementation success stories and lessons learned
• Current P2 technology studies and opportunities for collaboration
• Awareness on Lead-Free industrial implementation  (LEADOUT Infodays).  

1. Surface Treatment Technologies

Product life and maintenance are key issues in all manufacturing sectors. The design of component parts must be adequate to ensure the desired life of a product.  Parts must be able to resist aging, fatigue, corrosion and wear.  Surface treatment processes, such as chromium or cadmium electroplating and chrome conversion coating, may be used to increase a part's resistance to wear, corrosion and oxidation.  However, the use of these products containing toxic heavy metals generates wastes that are considered hazardous.  One or more workshop sessions will focus on projects underway to evaluate surface treatment processes that do not contain heavy metals.

2. Paints & Coating Technologies

Paints and coatings are used to protect products and/or for aesthetic reasons.  Paints and coatings diluted with organic solvents often contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).  In addition, traditional methods for removing coatings often present risks because of the generation of hazardous dusts or sludge.  One or more workshop sessions will focus on collaborative projects designed to test low/no-VOC and HAP coatings (such as the C3P Program's coating project), and evaluate novel low-emission depainting technologies (such as liquid nitrogen depainting).

3.  Green Electronics 

Lead-free solder will become available in time to meet the European Commission's deadlines for eliminating lead in certain commercial products. At least two questions remain, however: how difficult (and costly) will the conversion to lead-free solder be for companies; and how reliable will the final products be.  One or more workshop sessions will discuss aspects of lead-free solder conversion (materials, reliability, manufacturing, rework), as well as present the preliminary results of the high-reliability (Class 3 environment) testing of lead-free solders being conducted under the auspices of the Joint Council on Aging Aircraft (JCAA) and Joint Group on Pollution Prevention (JG-PP).

The International overview on Lead-free soldering research, industrial implementation status as well as the Lead Free appliance to the Aeronautic and Automotive sector will be addressed as well.

Lead Free Soldering (LFS) implementation in Europe towards the RoHS directive will be fully covered by one of the Workshop Sessions – LEADOUT Infodays, sponsored by the European funded LEADOUT project – Low Cost Lead-Free Soldering Technology to Improve Competitiveness of European SME.

This session on LFS awareness will address aspects focussed on technical and industrial implementation requirements specially applied to SMEs.   

 

4.  Printing Materials and Technologies 

The Printing industry is a very diversified industry owing to the multiplicity of printing processes utilized, and the type of substrates or products printed. Within each printing process, a variety of chemicals are used. Many of these chemicals, or wastes generated, are potential hazards and toxic to human health and the environment.

One or more workshop sessions will focus on alternative materials, technologies and processes, as well as identified and implemented solutions for some processes and applications, to reduce health, safety and ecological risks in printing processes.