HIGHLY ABRASION RESISTANT POWDER COATINGS Vernici in polvere altamente resistenti all‘abrasione Thomas Schmidt, TIGER Coatings Austria
36 2010 JANUARY/gennaio - international PAINT&COATING magazine
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ard Particles in soft shell Newly developed highly abrasion resistant powder coatings will allow significant improvements of coated products and will open up new markets for powder coatings. On the base of innovative hard ceramic material particles it is now feasible improving the abrasion resistance of powder coatings more that 100 %. Liquid nano-coatings in the last few years have shown the way that abrasion and scratch resistance can be brought to a new level of performance. However, so far these improvements could not be materialized in powder coatings. A totally new generation of highly abrasion resistant powder coatings from TIGER Coatings now shows extraordinary improvements. Nearly all types of powder coatings from TIGER Coatings could be modified with this newly developed technology improving the abrasion resistance of the standard powder coatings up to more than 100 % while maintaining all