Warm-hearted Instead of Ice-cold

Environmentally safe, highly functional, inexpensive since the early 1960s, powder coatings have developed into a mature technical alternative to liquid coating systems. Recently developed highly reactive systems allow applying powder coatings on temperature sensitive substrates like wood, plastics or preassembled composites. Unfortunately this high reactivity comes along with a limited storage stability leading to the necessity to store these powders in a fridge.

Now for the first time highly reactive powder coatings are available which are storage stable even at 40°C. Using a sophisticated catalyst system combined with an appropriate formulation know-how Degussa was able to develop innovative powder coating formulations, based on their own Vestagon BF polyurethane hardeners. These formulations combine all desired properties: emission free, highly reactive and storage stable at the same time. Thus the application range of this environmental compliant technology will be enhanced significantly.