The effects of titanium dioxide types, resins and additives for optimising universal tinter acceptance

Abstract

This paper covers some of the work undertaken in our Product Applications Laboratories over a period of several years in connection with universal tinter acceptance into alkyd gloss paints. Our work has covered a very wide range in the past ten years and we have developed some guiding principles to improve tinter acceptance. Purists could argue that the term ‘universal tinter’ is a misnomer and I would accept that argument. However, the term has a general acceptance, within the paint industry, to mean a range of strength controlled coloured tinters intended for decorative/architectural paints such as gloss, semi‐gloss, flat systems based on both alkyd and emulsion polymer resins. The tinting of strength controlled base paints with these universal tinters is done at point of sale, to produce commercially acceptable colour matches to a large number of colours offered, say 1,000 or more.

Citation

Siddle, G.R. (1981), "The effects of titanium dioxide types, resins and additives for optimising universal tinter acceptance", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 10 No. 5, pp. 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb041692