The following sections will be covered during this session:
- Introduction
- Tinting systems
- Colorants
- Base paints
- Waterborne systems
- Solventborne systems
- Color development
- Colorant acceptance
- Test procedures (rud-ub test, wetting test, brush-out test...)
- Colorant acceptance shortcomings and practical solutions:
- Poor mechanical stability
- Slow color development
- Strong rub-up and / or weak color development in SB paints
- Floatation: Benard cell formation
- Haze formation, low gloss
- Compatibilizers
- Compatibility and color development
- Selection procedure for colorant acceptance problem solving
- Technology of compatibilizers
- Examples of problem solving (surfactant drift, slow color development...)
- In-plant tinters
- Summary