The industry is currently developing at an accelerated pace, requiring more and more different materials and substances.
Various dyes are in demand today more than ever, with the help of which products acquire an aesthetically attractive appearance, as well as properties that help them withstand aggressive environmental influences.
Such substances also include epoxy paints.
What is this?
This is a thermoset powder material that has been developed for a very long time, but is still widely used in industry today. Note that these substances can form very high-quality coatings with high decorative properties, but most often they are used for painting various industrial and industrial devices and machine tools. Their composition is extremely diverse.
Dignity
Another advantage is their high functionality: depending on the type of resin or hardener used, epoxypaints can be used to create coatings with predetermined properties.
For example, if you choose the right composition, then it is quite possible to use such a dye in the manufacture of equipment for the food industry. Unfortunately, the fact that they have little resistance to atmospheric precipitation prevents the widespread use of such products.
Applications
Most often they are used to paint industrial equipment, protecting the latter from corrosion. In addition, these paints have high dielectric properties, and therefore are widely used in the energy sector.
The latter circumstance has made epoxy paints a great alternative to many of the inconvenient insulators that were so common in the industry: compounding, impregnation with low-conductive varnishes, and wrapping with insulating materials.
It is precisely due to the presence of such a large number of useful properties that are advantageously combined with their low cost that epoxy paints not only survived decades of operation, but also practically replaced many types of traditionally used insulating agents.
Properties
As we have already said, these substances are highly resistant to various kinds of aggressive chemical environments.
Given that they perfectly withstand the effects of industrial oils, alkalis, acids and petroleum products, they have become widely used in the oil industry forpainting of internal parts of pipelines. Only 500 microns of this synthetic material applied to the pipe wall completely isolate it from the action of aggressive environments.
In addition, epoxy-based paint practically does not burn, and therefore protects electrical equipment well in case of severe overheating.
It is extremely easy to apply such paints to the surface, as they have high adhesive properties. So, even sufficiently corroded and previously treated metals can be painted with them without preliminary preparation.
In addition, epoxy tile paint has recently become widespread even in everyday life, as it can be used to easily restore old tiles, completely repairing all its shortcomings.
