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INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
S P E C I A L O N A RC HI TE C TU RE & DESIGN
Elegance Meets Design: Demand for Flat Matte Finishes on the Rise Nora Pollmann TIGER Coatings GmbH & Co. KG – Wels, Austria
nora.pollmann@tiger-coatings.com
What is the trend in the finishing industry?
applications. Still, what is enjoyable to the eye
The first-generation products presented
presents great challenges to coaters. Flat matte
significant drawbacks during application.
Flat, satin and low gloss powder coatings are
powder coatings are nothing new, but only
Their gloss was heavily dependent on heating
extremely popular finishes in architecture as
recently they have become highly reproducible,
rate and curing temperature, with only a
well as in the automotive, sports equipment,
effective in application and can deliver
small curing window. This causes a particular
interior design and many others industrial
outstanding performance to the end-user.
problem for flat matte coatings, as even the
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N. 56 - MARCH/APRIL 2019 - international PAINT&COATING magazine