How Paint is Manufactured
All You Need to Know About Paint
Paint Manufacture
Just like baking a cake, paint manufacture requires a recipe.
This isolates the quantities required of the pigments, the vehicle (the binder and the thinner). These are then thoroughly mixed in their itemised quantities.
This mixture is taken once mixed and is then ground in mills to ensure all the clusters of pigment particles are broken up and that every particle is wetted (which prevents them being repellent to a wetting liquid).
Numerous tests are taken during and after manufacture to ensure that the paint contains all the desired properties, for example: colour, workability, hiding power (opacity) gloss, flow, thickness, fineness of particle, durability and flexibility.
The recipe for each type of paint is very important, as the correct ratios of pigment to binder are essential. Gloss paints require very fine pigments; flat paints and undercoats have a much higher pigment content than enamels.
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