Following the successful premiere of PCE 98, industry experts met again January 19-21 at the RAI exhibition center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The event is sponsored every other year by Vincentz Verlag in cooperation with CEPE.
Leveling and wetting agents are added to coatings formulations to lower the surface tension of the coating. This enables the coating to more uniformly wet a variety of surfaces -including low-surface-energy substrates, surfaces with defects and dirty surfaces.
It is really a shame that a latex paint has to dry. No matter how stable and perfectly formulated it may be, a latex paint must go through the traumatic transition of drying to form a functional paint film.
Originally the province of art departments and human visual appraisals, the importance of color management has now been recognized in almost every industry.