Tips for Reducing Coatings Failures with Solvents

By Ranae Anderson

For OEMs and other coatings end-users, reducing costs, increasing production efficiencies, and driving product sales are critical to staying competitive. Choosing the right coating can help them achieve these goals. That, however, puts tremendous pressure on coatings formulators: with the increased selection of raw materials available for coatings and the complex environmental regulations governing the industry, formulating coatings seems ever more intricate and complicated. Given the tight competition dominating the coatings marketplace, coatings failures are simply unacceptable.