Coatings formulators today cannot fail to acknowledge the contribution of polymer chemistry, which has provided a large and diverse selection of binders with which we can create our magic.
In spite of all of these things, pigments and the all important volumetric relationship between the pigment package and the selected binder generally remain aspects of our technology that do not receive the same adequacy of treatment among those responsible for the transfer and reiteration of the technology from one generation to the next, as do coating binders.