Technology
Today, any modern furniture production uses solvent-free coating systems, such as water-dilutable, UV-curable coatings, so-called Hydro UV coatings, or 100% UV coating systems for roller application. Hydro UV coatings combine in an ideal way the benefits of easy handling with optimal flow properties, rapid drying, as well as fast sanding ability and stackability. They can be sprayed or poured colorless as well as colored. In our latest developments, almost 100% of the overspray can be recycled and the surfaces can be hardened using energy-saving LED UV radiation technology.
Added value
Highest efficiency
Best chemical resistance
Excellent scratch and abrasion resistance
Extremely matte to extremely high gloss surfaces
Environmental friendliness due to low VOC or even VOC-free coating systems
Innovations
White Hydro UV with the highest durability.
Due to the excellent resistance to household chemicals, especially against staining substances such as coffee, red wine or mustard, no additional, clear protective coating is necessary.
- Chemically-curing Hydro UVs are based mostly on emulsions. This variant offers a very good accentuation of the wood substrate, high filling strength and very good chemical resistance. The disadvantage is that chemically-curing Hydro UVs show no physical surface drying, i.e. paint over-spray, which is not subject to UV curing and is not cured. The paint environment is correspondingly viscous, and/or the paint shops on which chemically-curing Hydro UVs are processed.
- Physically-curing Hydro UVs already show a physical surface drying without UV-curing which clearly minimizes the soiling of the paint environment. For this reason, physically-curing Hydro UVs are also suitable for the spraying of objects with three-dimensional geometry for which 100% UV curing cannot always be guaranteed.
Physically-curing Hydro UVs usually show a weaker activation than the chemically-curing variant and do not reach their chemical resistance.