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Opening photo: Metal office furniture has long become more than mere functional products: filing cabinets, desks, lights and office chairs are increasingly becoming designer items.
INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
Mixed Powder Today: More Scratch-Resistant Specialist Coatings with Great Flow Properties Peter Christl IGP Pulvertechnik AG, Wil - Switzerland
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peter.christl@igp-powder.com
fter the emergence and
blends of epoxy and polyester resins
colloquially also referred to as “mixed
establishment of duroplastic
would appear in the late 1960s, forming a
powder”, permitted the creation of
coating powders based on
new class of powder coatings called hybrid
powder coating formulations that would
epoxy resins at the beginning of the
powder coatings.
be more reactive and less prone to
1960s, it was not long until the first
For the first time, this coating system,
yellowing.
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