Paint

The remarkable features of modern decorative coatings offer a wide variety of paints with excellent optical and mechanical properties and easy handling. To achieve this, the paint producer needs high quality raw materials. The functional minerals SOCAL® and WINNOFIL® help to perform high quality standards.

For more than 20 years Solvay has been optimizing the SOCAL® grades, Solvay's precipitated calcium carbonates, for the use in paints. The permanent quality control of the products and the raw materials ensure constant high level quality.

High brightness and fineness, as well as the crystal shape and the structure, of SOCAL® are the keys to improve:

• Dry and wet hiding power
• Dry and wet brightness
• Low sheen in Matt paints
• Scrub resistance and washability
• Application behavior

The coated precipitated calcium carbonate grades SOCAL® and WINNOFIL® are ultrafine products with a high surface area. In solvent based systems they control the rheology and the thixotropic behavior.

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Solvent based	The use of SOCAL® and WINNOFIL® grades in solvent-based paints enhances the degree of brightness and covering capacity, thereby the use of titanium dioxide can be reduced.
Water based	SOCAL® and WINNOFIL® grades are used for their hiding power, brightness and weather-resistance properties in interior paints, outside paints and glossy indoor and outdoor paints.