Waterborne Technology is Environmentally Friendly Paint

The conventional paints for vehicles proved morecan be imagined as mixing paint for the purposes of
dangerous because it contains many ingredients thatdrawing water. But the end of result is almost
are always environmentally destructive. For thisexactly same as oil paint, which more powerful and
reason, the technologies in this field continue to beeasily to coat the shiny metal. Because of it is easily
developed for the creation of environmentally friendlysoluble in water, the other chemical solvent needed in
products that has quality no less than conventionalthe process of painting as a whole can be very small,
paint.about 10 percent compared to the use of
Recently, the development of technologies thatconventional paint.
relates with paint is growing very fast. In fact, theOn the basis of painting process with conventional
latest technology brings paint with waterborneproducts required 85 percent of toxic solvents. But,
technology. This product contains more elements ofby using this new type of paint, the other chemical
water including for the dilution purposes instead ofsolvents compounds that required only ten percent.
toxic compounds such as paint thinner in it that canThe advantage of using waterborne is not only
cause the damage to environment.reducing the environmental problem in the process of
Waterborne technology can be described as a simplerefinishing, but also balancing ecological and economic
process; water can replace liquid paint thinner for thesystems. This new material is safer to be used every
benefit of mixing, painting, and evaporation. This isday, and also can greatly reduce the investment of
very beneficial because the substance that containednew equipment, because the using of material is less
in a thinner is a form of environmental damagingthan conventional paint.
compounds.Automotive manufacturer Audi in Germany has also
However, it does not mean waterborne did not usemade research to refine these findings. The
paint thinner in the entire production process.  Butdevelopment includes the process of water dissolving
the concentration and the amount of use is reduceddirectly mixed in the circulation at a special container
if it compared with the use of paint thinner inwhen sprayed. This also includes the using of the
conventional products.latest ultra filter system.
Therefore, the combination of paint that containsThe process is the water from the paint collected in
water with a high solid system is the mixture of250,000-liter tank before cleaning the pollutants and
several chemical compounds that contained in theother toxic chemicals. After that the water is
paint can reduce the amount of toxic solvents whichrecycled into the painting circuit. In other words, to fill
is used. The new system is also verythe water circuit, also required the water. It means
environmentally friendly including the coating process,that the whole process of painting is not only
coat base, and also coat.guaranteed of environmentally friendly, but also very
Paint that contains more water must be heated in aeconomical, because the water can be recycled.
temperature between 5 to 30 degrees Celsius. EvenThe process is able to reduce more than 70 percent
for a better result required the heating process untilof the energy for the purposes of tinting on the
the temperature 20 degrees Celsius. The process isentire of the cars body in the series of production
slightly more complicated than the use ofcar in the factory. That means it will save at least
conventional paint.2900 tons of oil for heating purposes in the process
Recently, this system has been developing a methodof painting in the factory of Audi per year.
of painting with oven, and can eliminate someIf discussing about this new paint technology, of
obstacles. For example, to mix paint in the oven youcourse it must be linked with the painting process of
must be carefully before painting. Moreover, it canvehicle in the factory. The result is the progress of
also be used infrared method, so that the paint whichthe environmental protection and the efforts to
is diluted with water definitely can be dried with ease.suppress the production cost can be obtained by
This product formulated to be friendly with water.using waterborne. Meanwhile, for the business or the
Therefore, pigment-binding process is one ofpainting services, the level of information about
examples that can be performed easily. This processefficiency is not obtained yet.