AkzoNobel launches new waterborne coil primer

Akzo Nobel announced that a The new water-based coil primer has been launched, and this product can be used in the coil coating pretreatment stage, thus changing the coil production process from two lines to a single line, greatly improving production efficiency.

According to the introduction of the company, the traditional two-layer coating system color-coated board product production process requires two separate curings of the primer and topcoat, while the company's new product can be used in the chemical pretreatment stage of the coil production process , the curing temperature is only 80°C, so its curing can be completed in the pretreatment stage, and in the later stage, only one topcoat curing is needed to realize a two-coat system, thus achieving the goal of doubling production capacity. In addition, this product can also help customers reduce energy consumption, which is also consistent with the company's strategy of providing customers with products that are more in line with sustainable development, and can obtain higher product value with a small amount of resource consumption.

At present, the sales of industrial coatings account for about half of AkzoNobel's total annual sales, mainly marine coatings and architectural industrial coatings. proportion is small.

In February 2016, AkzoNobel announced that it would acquire the industrial coatings business of the German BASF Group (BASF). The products involved include coil coatings, coil coatings (Foil coatings, also known as foil coatings, Foil can be used in fields such as furniture decoration), wind power and general industrial coatings.

BASF's coil coating business currently ranks among the top three in the world. It is mainly used for the production of colored steel and colored aluminum, which are widely used in industrial plants, construction, automobiles and home appliances, with annual sales of about 500 million euros. For this acquisition, AkzoNobel said that the acquisition will further strengthen the coil coating business and will be in line with its existing business structure optimization.