Insights & technical notes
Selection guides, technical explainers, application notes and industry updates — written around the long-tail questions buyers and applicators actually search for.
Amine bloom: the film that stops the next coat sticking
A slimy or whitish haze on a cured epoxy is not slow drying. It is hardener that has left the film, and it will take your intercoat adhesion with it.
Read moreCold-weather application: what solvent-borne coatings allow
At 5 C the epoxy does not cure slowly, it barely cures at all. Substrate temperature, condensation risk and how to verify a cold cure without guessing.
Read moreSoluble salts: the contaminant blasting does not remove
A blast profile can look perfect and still fail. Why chloride and sulfate salts must be measured before the first coat, and how the Bresle test works.
Read moreStripe coats: where the paint is always too thin
Sprayed film is thinnest exactly where corrosion starts. Why welds, cut edges and cut-outs need a hand-applied stripe coat, and how to specify it.
Read moreCoatings and cathodic protection: one system, not two
Cathodic protection only works as well as the coating on top of it. Why disbondment resistance, film thickness and holidays belong in the same specification.
Read morePaint industry consolidation: what it means for coating buyers
Two portfolio moves at AkzoNobel reshape the industrial coatings landscape. What specifiers and buyers should verify before relying on a specification.
Read moreComparing topcoats: polyurethane, polysiloxane, fluorocarbon
Pick an exterior topcoat by gloss and colour retention, repair behaviour and the maintenance cycle you actually intend — not by colour alone.
Read moreDew point and steel temperature: the window you can spray in
Three degrees above dew point is only the start. What the window really rules out, how to measure it on site, and why the coldest hour decides the schedule.
Read moreAtmospheric, splash and immersed: three coating problems
The same steel structure can sit in three corrosion environments at once. Each one loads the coating differently, and one system rarely covers all three well.
Read moreArticles are compiled by RichTech from publicly available manufacturer materials and field practice, for selection reference only; the latest official technical data sheets (TDS) prevail.
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