Tiger Drylac Powder Coatings introduces
‘Natives and Aliens’ color selection
Tiger Drylac Powder Coatings has introduced the ‘Natives and Aliens’ color selection that includes 15 new colors with 20
different special effect finishes bundled into
a pocket size fan deck.
The Natives and Aliens color selection is offered in an exterior non-architectural powder coating grade suitable for exterior and
interior applications.
Tiger Drylac Powder Coatings has introduced into the North American market
the ‘Natives and Aliens’ color selection
that includes 15 new colors with 20 different special effect finishes bundled into a
pocket size fan deck.
According to the company, the new
color selection is inspired by native elements and other minerals and metals, and
influenced and motivated by current sentiments to love the planet as well as the
shift in consciousness attributed to the end
of the Mayan calendar and all current the-ories considering life on Earth. The Natives and Aliens color selection draws
attention to the worth of minerals and
metals, and gravitates around the homecoming to nature to confer gratitude to
Mother Earth for its kindness and magnificence the company said.
“The Natives and Aliens color selection
hybridizes the ethereal with extraterrestrial
shape shifting finishes creating an intrigu-
ing yet glamorous appearance,” said Mon-
taha Hidefi, marketing and business
development manager, North America,
Tiger Drylac Powder Coatings. “Copper,
gold and nickel contrast with bronze, brass
and chrome. Flat matte converges with
high gloss. Dark shades expose light and
transparent colors. The Natives and Aliens
color selection reveals earthy tones with a
scent from the past and a twenty-first cen-
tury twist. It interlinks the muted with the
sparkling and juxtaposes the shimmery
with the dimmed.”
The Natives and Aliens color selection
is offered in an exterior non-architectural
powder coating grade suitable for exterior
and interior applications.
“The muted, dimmed, shiny, shimmering, polished and brushed metallic
and pearlescent second generation
bonded metallic and special effects are a
designer’s finale moment and an evolution in the color and finishes space,” said
Hidefi. “The selection is well suited to a
variety of market segments including furniture, lighting, railing, store fixtures and
other applications where the visual and
the form are an integrated part of the designer’s creation.”
PPG electrocoat primer to
optimize corrosion protection
PPG Industries has developed a water-based corrosion protection primer that is
applied to aircraft metal parts using an
electrocoating dipping process, eliminating the waste and environmental concerns
linked to sprayed primers.
Kevin Brooks, global segment manager
for OEM coatings at PPG, said priming
today is done by workers with spray guns
in paint booths, where only about 25 percent of the paint ends up on the part, leading to inefficient use of primer and
environmental concerns with workers
breathing the airborne chemicals used in
the primer.
For parts that have complex recesses,
Brooks said the hand spray process can
lead to 4-5x the desired thickness of primer
near the recess area to ensure full coverage.
Based on electrocoat technologies that
have been used in the automobile industry
for more than 40 years, PPG has developed
its Aerocron primer for dipping applications, where coating thickness is tightly
controlled to minimum levels across the
entire part, cutting weight and boosting
coating utilization to nearly 100 percent.
Electrocoating, or electrodeposition,
uses electrical current to apply a coating
to a conductive substrate submerged in a
water-based paint bath. The process can
be fully automated said PPG.
Brooks said the primer has taken several years to develop, in part due to the requirement of aerospace aluminium alloys
for lower cure temperatures compared to
automotive alloys.
He said “several” OEMs in Europe and
North America, as well as military customers, are evaluating or implementing
electrocoat-application primer on small-scale projects, eying the technology for
their next generation primer needs.
