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PAINT AND COATINGS MANUFACTURING: WATERBORNE PIGMENTS
Watercolours
Industry experts breakdown innovations in waterborne pigment
manufacturing to meet current demands
BY NOELLE STAPINSKY
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FCM engaged Edward Mendez, chief chemist,
architectural for Cloverdale Paint and Diane
Langer, director of automotive OEM coatings
technology, Americas, BASF, for a discussion
about the science of waterborne pigment development. Our
topics included meeting sustainability demands and colour
capabilities and formulation advancements, seen from both
an architectural and automotive perspective.
What is the key to sourcing pigments and additives that are
sustainable and maintain colour properties?
Edward Mendez (EM): The design and manufacture of
pigments for the paint industry is a highly specialised activity
that has a tradition of many years. Dozens of companies all over
the world are engaged in this activity and have accumulated
extensive experience in aspects related to aesthetics (colour,
hiding, tint strength) and durability (weather resistance,
chemical resistance, solvent resistance) of a wide variety of
pigment chemistries used in different types of paint, from
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architectural to automotive to industrial paints in general.
In the last decades, the producers of pigments and
dispersions have not been the exception in the industry
regarding the implementation of sustainability strategies.
The use of ingredients derived from plants, the use of
materials that reduce the carbon footprint, the reduction
of hazardous waste and the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions are some of the actions that these companies have
taken.
Are there colours or surface finishes that are difficult to
produce as a waterborne paint?
EM: Today there are a wide variety of dry pigments and
pigment dispersions available to make water-based paints.
Improvements in pigment surface treatments to facilitate
their dispersibility have made it possible to design so-called
easily dispersible pigments, both inorganic and organic
in nature. This is especially convenient in the case of the
latter, which are the most difficult pigments to grind, to

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