Understanding Coatings Raw Materials

Mohammadi, Asadollah; Gholami, Mohammad Reza

doi:10.22124/psug.2026.30766.1137

Understanding Coatings Raw Materials

Document Type : Translation

Authors

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

² BEHNOPAINT

10.22124/psug.2026.30766.1137

Abstract

The coating industry is highly raw material intensive and uses a wide range of these raw materials, from relatively inexpensive minerals to high performance polymers and pigments to highly engineered specialty additives. Understanding Coatings Raw Materials intends to provide a comprehensive overview of the raw materials used in contemporary paints and coatings.
Significant advances have been made in the field of polymeric materials and coatings during the past few decades. Ever since the negative impacts of solvent based coatings on the environment and human health were recognized, the coating industry has been striving not only to address these impacts but also to offer better performing products to meet the ever growing demands to decorate, protect, and provide new functionalities to surfaces. This has led to the emergence and commercialization of such advanced technologies as waterborne coatings, high-solid coatings, powder coatings, radiation curable coatings, and bio-based as well as nanomaterial based coatings, to name a few. The raw materials used in today’s
advanced coatings are incredibly diverse and innovative compared to those used a few decades before. Understanding this growing palette of coating raw materials and their specific roles and interactions
with each other is increasingly challenging, both for new entrants as well as those already working in the coating industry.

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