DSM in Paint: Helping customers with the big picture
Did you know that many of the ingredients for high-end decorative paints come from DSM? Or that our resins are the key component in paints for the very toughest of environments? Like oil rigs? And did you know that we’re creating successive generations of waterborne, high solids solvent borne, and powder products? Well, we are…
In the mainstream, painting has often been associated with beauty and aesthetics. But for our many customers and end users it’s about protection: Especially in demanding environments. And of course it’s increasingly about sustainability and finding smart ways to make a contribution as ‘cleanly’ as possible.
At DSM we’re working with some of the world’s most famous brand names to solve these challenges thanks to an array of technologies and knowledge that’s unique in the marketplace and enables us to create bespoke, hybrid products that no-one else can.
Discovering DECOVERY™
Our DECOVERY™ family of resins covers everything from high-gloss topcoats (often used for doors); to tough durable stains that last; to primers that combine excellent filling with good wet adhesion and sandability; to functional primers that deliver better stain blocking and protection (of wooden floors, for example).
Broad brushstrokes
But decorative paints are just half the story. Our products are used in paints applied to metal, plastic, concrete and wood - in vehicles and rolling stock, cans and coils, furniture and boats. In fact, our resins for special purpose paints even help protect the world’s oil rigs from the rigors of nature.
Saying goodbye to solvents
No matter what the application, our biggest collective challenge in the paint market is clear: The need for cleaner, solvent-free paints.
Our response has been a string of innovations such as NeoPac® PU-480, an ultra high-performance waterborne product for topcoats & stains that offers high gloss, outdoor durability, hardness, flexibility and water resistance. There’s also Neocryl®, a family of waterborne acrylic resins that enable paint manufacturers to cut their overall volatile organic compound emissions by up to 50%. Just as importantly, this technology delivers the same quality, performance and appearance as traditional solvent-based paint.
