Advanced Paints
The paint, lacquer, and varnish industry faces challenges such as global competition, digital transformation, and sustainability. Advanced paints offer innovative and strategic solutions in this context.
Why Advanced Paints?
Advanced paints not only provide solutions for protection and durability but also lead innovation in sustainability, energy efficiency, and specialized functionalities, addressing challenges across various industrial sectors.
Extended Durability
Advanced paints can extend the lifespan of surfaces, reducing maintenance and replacement costs.
Additional Functionality
From self-repair to easy cleaning, these paints offer more than just color.
Sustainability
New advanced formulations with low VOC content and/or water-based solutions maintain high performance while meeting environmental legislation and carbon footprint reduction goals.
Who is it for?
Automotive
The automotive industry is evolving with the arrival of electric vehicles and ADAS systems. Advanced paints play a key role in protecting new lightweight materials, such as polymers and composites, ensuring:
- Optimal adhesion and scratch resistance.
- Protection against UV radiation and wear.
- High-quality aesthetics without compromising technical performance.
Aerospace Industry
Aircraft are subjected to extreme conditions that require high-performance coatings. Our solutions provide:
- Resistance to extreme temperatures and erosion.
- Anti-ice and anti-insect properties to improve aerodynamics.
- Compatibility with next-generation composite materials.
Renewable Energy
Solar and wind infrastructures need specialized paints to ensure their efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. We offer:
- Self-cleaning coatings for solar panels, preventing performance losses.
- Erosion-resistant and UV degradation-resistant paints for wind turbines.
- Anti-ice and lightning protection solutions to increase safety and durability.
What do we offer?
CIDETEC Surface Engineering provides added value throughout the paint value chain, from formulation to characterization and post-processing, including surface preparation and automated spray application.
Our developments focus on:
Modifying commercial paints and varnishes to incorporate advanced functionalities (anti-stain, easy cleaning, anti-ice, anti-mosquito)
New formulations of self-repairing varnishes
New sustainable varnish formulations with low VOC content and high performance
Anaphoretic paints and lacquers for extreme environments (anti-corrosion, anti-erosion, UV resistance)
Surface preparation
Automation of the painting process
Testing and characterization of paints
Post-processing of painted surfaces for aesthetic and/or functional effects
Our capabilities and infrastructure
We have a highly qualified interdisciplinary team with proven experience in various industrial sectors, capable of conducting cutting-edge research tailored to the needs of different industries.
CIDETEC Surface Engineering has fully equipped laboratories for the synthesis, processing, and characterization of paints, including:
- R&D laboratories for the design, formulation, and addition of advanced paints and varnishes, including several reactors equipped with temperature control and different types of agitation.
- Surface preparation and pretreatment protocols (chemical, physical, mechanical, etc.) adapted to substrate requirements.
- Fully robotized paint booth capable of precisely applying any type of paint.
- R&D laboratories for testing and characterization of coatings and materials: adhesion, morphology, composition, structure, aesthetics, wettability, hardness, roughness, scratch resistance, corrosion control, etc.
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