Surface Improvement of Floor Coatings

Approx 02:30 min

In this chapter, one of our market expert provides some insights on the challenges of floor coatings with regards to surface appearance and introduces the content of the course in great details.

Approx 6:30 min

This chapter covers the typical defects that can occur on the surface of floor coatings and explains the different causes.

Approx 04:00 min

This chapter discusses the topic of surface tension and its impact on wetting and surface defects. It also explains how additives help solving wetting problems.

Approx 07:30 min

This chapter presents the different types of wetting agents available in Evonik Coating Additives portfolio as a solution to eliminate wetting and surface defect issues of floor coatings.

Approx 08.30 min

This chapter explains the mechanisms resulting in flow and leveling issues and how to eliminate these.

Approx 04:00 min

This chapter explains how flow and leveling performance is evaluated in our laboratories.

Approx 07:00 min

This chapter provides some product highlights to improve flow and leveling of floor coatings.

This chapter contains a series of guide formulations for self leveling floor, clear and pigmented coatings for flooring application including additives recommendations. This chapter is downloadable.

To summarise this journey, we invite you to our Evonik product selector guide for floor coatings. This chapter is downloadable.