Surface Treated Metallic Pigments for Waterborne Reduced VOC Coatings

摘要

Metallic effects in coatings have continued to grow in popularity driven initially by the trend over the past few decades for metallic effect car paints that has culminated in silver being a dominant colour in the automotive industry for the past six years. Recent signs are that other shades of metallic effects in the automotive industry are now coming to the forefront including metallic greys, blues and blacks. This popularity of metallic effects has spread to many other coatings areas and the manufacturers of metallic effect pigment have responded by continuing to push forward with the development of newer and better metallic effect pigments. Alongside these developments has been a need to provide metallic effect pigments in versions that are more suited to today's environmentally aware society and to meet the ever- tightening demands for reduced VOC emissions. This paper will look at how manufacturers of metallic effect pigments are meeting those demands through advanced pigment technology for waterborne and reduced VOC coatings.