Paint manufacturing lab

In the laboratory, students are assigned more or less complex tasks for which they have to find task-specific solutions independently, i.e. they learn to develop paint compositions. The paint is then manufactured with different dispersion aggregates (picture 1).

Afterwards, the paint is applied on the base material (picture 2) and is dried or cured.

After testing the coatings, the students see, for example, that increasing pigmentation strongly reduces the brightness and flexibility of coatings. Thus, they get to know the relationship between coating characteristics and paint composition (components). Or they observe the separation of pigments (picture 3); this damage can be made good by adding an appropriate silicone additive. In this way, students become acquainted with the effects of paint additives.