F.A.Q.

This is a kind of paint with high resistance to light, that gives the best results against yellowing. It is particularly used in light woods where any yellowing of the paint would cause a color change really unpleasant. It gives to the wood a very natural appearance as it can be applied with a minimum thickness without creating the effect of overlapping of a transparent film on the wood panel.

It is normally used where we want to achieve big thick layers of paint with excellent mechanical resistance (lacquered panels). Being harder than the acrylic or polyurethane paints, it is typically used on tabletops and other elements subject to wear. It can be polished (gloss lacquering) with systems that involve the use of progressively finer grains to obtain a surface with great aesthetic effect. Even the polyester paints have poor resistance to light and are not suitable to produce very clear lacquered that turn easily yellow.

It is normally used where we want to achieve big thick layers of paint with excellent mechanical resistance (lacquered panels). Being harder than the acrylic or polyurethane paints, it is typically used on tabletops and other elements subject to wear. It can be polished (gloss lacquering) with systems that involve the use of progressively finer grains to obtain a surface with great aesthetic effect. Even the polyester paints have poor resistance to light and are not suitable to produce very clear lacquered that turn easily yellow.

It is used for the new ecological paint systems in which the solvent used is the water. In this way we solve big problems of environmental impacts (just think that in some cases even the 70% of the applied product evaporates during the drying process on form of polluting solvents). The water paints are only recently used on industrial cycles and many applications are still on experimental stage.

It refers to the gloss value, read on the painted surface, using the special tool called “gloss meter”: