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Al Coating
Al Coating
Contents
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BASF
The Chemical Company
4 – 5
BASF Coatings
Solutions which help our customers shine
6 –7
Substrates
Form, function and variety
8 – 9
Paint technologies
Reliable benefits
10 –11
Coil coating
Non-stop coating
12 –13
COILTEC® primer
Underlying efficiency
BASF
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BASF topcoats
The first impression counts
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Coil coatings for white goods
Household harmony
The Chemical Company
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BASF coil coatings – special products
Customised performance Shared goals
Your reliable partner Our products, services and ideas
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BASF is the world’s leading chemi- enable us to help in the search for
Shared future
Systematic variety
Features and application options for coil coatings by BASF cal company. We offer high-quality answers to global challenges such We develop new technologies and
products and intelligent solutions for as climate protection, energy use them to open up additional
22 – 23 almost all industries and sectors – efficiency, food supply and mobility. market opportunities and to meet
Our service concept from chemicals, plastics and perfor- At the same time, we aim to grow our responsibilities to society and
Offer more – achieve more mance products to plant protection profitably together with our custom- the environment. Our ideas, work
chemicals, and on to oil and gas. ers, business partners and workforce and commitment therefore represent
As your partner, we help your com- and thus consistently increase the a major contribution to a liveable
pany to achieve success – reliably, value of our company – economically future – for ourselves and for coming
sustainably and innovatively. and ecologically. generations.
Publisher:
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BASF Coatings
Solutions which help our customers shine
BASF Coatings develops, manufactures and markets a high-quality range of innovative automotive OEM coatings,
automotive refinish products, industrial coatings and decorative paints. As part of the BASF Group, we are excellently
positioned in all the sectors in which we operate and are among the leading companies globally within the coatings
industry. We offer intelligent solutions for complex challenges – and more: we use our passion and commitment to
ensure that our customers and partners achieve excellent market positions with their products and services.
Substrates
universal applicability and good
recycling properties. The material and flexible
Choice of substrate properties can be adapted to a wide Aluminium is comparable to steel in
Which substrate is the right one for range of applications by means of many regards – for example, with
a particular application is decided on alloys or thermal and mechanical reference to its durability, its varied
Form, function and variety the basis of various criteria. The
further machining stages, for example,
treatment. Cold rolled steel offers
the following fundamental options
applications and its recyclability.
Although it may not be as strong as
the coated metal has to undergo, for further processing: steel, it is two-thirds lighter. Alumi-
have to be taken into account when Sheet steel which is not further nium is therefore often used in aviation
It doesn’t matter whether it’s for washing machine housings, a roof covering or a façade element. Flat rolled metal
selecting the substrate. Roll forming, treated is mainly used indoors – and other transport applications,
from a steel or aluminium mill is the basis of countless industrially manufactured products. More than 20 million
bending and deep-drawing each i.e. for products which are rarely and it is also very popular with
tonnes of steel are coated annually around the world using the coil coating process. Additionally 2 million tonnes or
require a particular material strength exposed to aggressive influences architects. The selection of special
so of aluminium and other substrates are coated. The later application is a key factor in determining which material
and grade. The coated product’s and are thus less at risk of alloys allows the mechanical
is processed in which form.
field of use – whether indoors or corrosion, such as lights. properties of aluminium – for instance,
outdoors, as a structural element or hardness and deep-drawability – to
Refined sheet steel is either
in a transport operation – also plays be specifically adapted to the desired
hot-dip galvanised or electrogal-
a key role in selecting the substrate. product features.
vanised (using zinc, magnesium,
aluminium or an alloy of these)
and is the most frequently used
substrate in coil coating. The
resulting products, such as façade
and roof elements, withstand
outdoor climatic exposure very
well – and meet extremely
stringent specifications in terms
of weather and corrosion resis-
tance and service life.
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Paint technologies
Reliable benefits
Different paint technologies are used in the coil coating process. Which one is selected depends on the downstream
processes and on the properties required later in the end product. The coating for façade elements, for instance, should
be especially durable and weather-resistant. Washing machine housings, on the other hand, require a surface which will
reliably protect the machines against detergents throughout their lifetime. In most cases, the paints used contain polyester
binders. When more specialised or particularly challenging requirements are to be met, polyurethane, PVC and PVDF
binders are used.
Extremely resistant:
Plastisols
Coatings based on PVC dispersions
High-quality all-rounders: are extremely resistant and durable.
Polyurethane (PU) Whereas polyester and PU coatings
coatings have film thicknesses of between
Cost-effective solutions: PU coatings are particularly effective 15 and 30 µm, PVC coatings with their
Polyester coatings paint systems in which polyurethane greater film thicknesses of 150 to
On the one hand, paints manufactured or polyester resins are used and 200 μm offer very good protection
on the basis of polyester binders can cross-linked with isocyanates. Com- even in an aggressive industrial Extremely durable: PVDF
be resilient – which is ideal for mould- pared with polyester coatings, this atmosphere – and furthermore feature It is over 30 years ago that coatings
ing processes. On the other hand, they approach improves important material outstanding surface properties and based on polyvinylidene fluoride
can be formulated such that they are properties such as durability, adhesion extremely high flexibility. New develop- resins were launched. They offer the
very hard and tough. Thanks to their and resilience. However, these benefits ments with optimised UV resistance highest resistance to sunlight and UV
balance of surface properties, such as also entail higher material costs. Due show greater resistance still, even light as well as the best resistance to
resilience and scratch resistance, and to their excellent surface properties, under exposure to extreme weather other weather influences. They also
their high cost effectiveness, polyester PU coatings are outstandingly suitable conditions. Plastisols have been used feature excellent formability and cor-
coatings are the material of choice for household appliances, but also for for decades as standard in the rosion resistance, so PVDF coatings
for a wide range of applications in the textured surfaces, such as on roller construction industry on steel wall, are used as high-end products in
construction industry. shutters, gutters and façades. roof and façade elements. demanding architectural applications.
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Coil coating
Non-stop coating
The coil coating process offers a variety of benefits over unit coating. It is carried out as a continuous process,
enabling production to run without interruption. This results, for example, in lower material input for cleaning,
pretreatment and paint application – which not only saves costs, but is also good for the environment.
The non-stop, uniform coil coating process also delivers visually perfect surfaces of consistently high quality.
Greater efficiency
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Coil coating
Non-stop coating
The coil coating process offers a variety of benefits over unit coating. It is carried out as a continuous process,
enabling production to run without interruption. This results, for example, in lower material input for cleaning,
pretreatment and paint application – which not only saves costs, but is also good for the environment.
The non-stop, uniform coil coating process also delivers visually perfect surfaces of consistently high quality.
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pretreatment primer application
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Topcoat application
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Coil coating
Non-stop coating
The coil coating process offers a variety of benefits over unit coating. It is carried out as a continuous process,
enabling production to run without interruption. This results, for example, in lower material input for cleaning,
pretreatment and paint application – which not only saves costs, but is also good for the environment.
The non-stop, uniform coil coating process also delivers visually perfect surfaces of consistently high quality.
Greater efficiency
for high-end quality
The waterborne BASF pretreatment primer also offers being coated having to be passed through the line twice
new, more efficient application options for 2-coat lines. as previously.
Since the optimised pretreatment unit for the pretreatment These options, which substantially reduce the production
primer enables pretreatment and priming to be carried costs for high-end products, include, for instance,
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can be used directly for another coat – without the coil additional surface properties.
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BASF topcoats
The first impression counts
The specifications for the surface appearance of coil-coated objects are as varied as the products made from the
coil-coated steel. It’s about more than just the colour: the topcoat is often also required to be glossy or matt, coloured,
flexible, particularly UV-resistant – or to combine many different functions with each other. As a global player among
coatings specialists, BASF Coatings offers its customers the complete range of these features, for example paint
systems to meet almost every demand coupled with unparalleled expertise in the fields of colour and colour matching,
pigments and special effects.
BASF topcoats
The first impression counts
The specifications for the surface appearance of coil-coated objects are as varied as the products made from the
coil-coated steel. It’s about more than just the colour: the topcoat is often also required to be glossy or matt, coloured,
flexible, particularly UV-resistant – or to combine many different functions with each other. As a global player among
coatings specialists, BASF Coatings offers its customers the complete range of these features, for example paint
systems to meet almost every demand coupled with unparalleled expertise in the fields of colour and colour matching,
pigments and special effects.
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BASF topcoats
The first impression counts
The specifications for the surface appearance of coil-coated objects are as varied as the products made from the
coil-coated steel. It’s about more than just the colour: the topcoat is often also required to be glossy or matt, coloured,
flexible, particularly UV-resistant – or to combine many different functions with each other. As a global player among
coatings specialists, BASF Coatings offers its customers the complete range of these features, for example paint
systems to meet almost every demand coupled with unparalleled expertise in the fields of colour and colour matching,
pigments and special effects.
Coil coatings
for white goods
Domestic appliances such as washing machines, driers, fridges, microwaves and dishwashers are
still termed “white goods” even though they have long since been available in colours other than a
neutral white. Today these appliances can be found in households in a wide variety of looks – from
very elegant stainless steel to metallic effects and on to colourfully glossy or textured surfaces.
Household harmony Steel producers and appliance manufacturers use coil-coated sheets to manufacture this variety
of surfaces economically. Especially to this end, BASF Coatings develops high-performance paint
systems which combine modern designs, robust surfaces and efficient production.
All-rounders:
BASF’s special products
for white goods
Polyester and PU compounds, which
feature very good surface properties,
are used as the basis for BASF’s
paint products for white goods.
Customised performance
The wide spectrum of products manufactured from steel or aluminium sheets requires extremely
flexible coating solutions. We carry a range of high-performance special products for our customers’
sometimes very individual specification profiles:
CLEARCERAM® are clears which are used for a wide variety of applications to produce smooth or
textured surfaces.
COILBACK® backcoats offer reliable protection against corrosion and functionality on those surface
elements which are not in the foreground visually on the finished product. They ensure adhesion of
foams which are used, for example, in the construction industry as insulation. They can also be used
with a range of adhesives, for example for bonding insulating material to the reverse. The backcoats
also help reduce tool wear in subsequent operations, such as profiling, stamping and deep-drawing.
FLEXCERAM® P is a topcoat specially designed for lighting. It has been formulated to be highly
resilient, heat-resistant and glossy. It can be processed in both a 2-coat and a 1-coat (without primer)
process.
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bands, brown goods, whiteboards and air-conditioning units.
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We offer our customers far more than high-quality paint products. Additionally, BASF Coatings is far more than a
paint manufacturer: as a genuine partner, we support you and your business with a wide range of services related
to coatings and coating technology – leaving you free to concentrate on your core business as a coater.
Our Paint Management concept extends from just-in-time supplies to a small-scale paint factory on the customer’s
premises. We are also happy to share our know-how directly with our customers – in workshops, at conferences or
in individual consultation.
Glasuritstraße 1
48165 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 2501 14 0
Fax: +49 2501 14 33 73
E-Mail: CoilCoatingEUI@BASF.com
BASF Coatings SA