Graffiti Resource Council®: Building Partnerships
It has been just a year and a half since the Graffiti Resource Council® (GRC®) was relaunched, but in that short time, the council has carried out and grown its ... Read More…
Automotive Coatings: Creating Excitement with Effect Pigments
Regardless of the end-use application, special effect pigments provide a differentiated appearance. That is certainly true in the automotive industry, where they are used in coatings applied to both the ... Read More…
Effect of Global Climate Variables on Weathering Testing
The automobile industry has experienced tremendous growth in the past several years and is expected to expand further in 2016 due to strengthening economies around the world. Until recently, growth ... Read More…
Automotive Three-Wet Coatings
Historically, automotive coating systems consisted of some sort of metal pretreatment, an alkyd or polyester primer, a primer surfacer, and a monocoat type topcoat—three organic coatings, three bakes. Over time, ... Read More…
Automotive Coatings: Application Defects
Spraying is the worst possible way to apply automotive coatings if minimization of surface defects is desired, but it is the only way to obtain the gloss, color effects, and ... Read More…