An electrostatic powder coating method includes spraying a charged powder coating material including powder particles which contain a thermosetting resin, a thermosetting agent, and titanium oxide particles as a white pigment to electrostatically attach the powder coating material to an object to be coated; and heating the powder coating material which is electrostatically attached to the object to be coated to thereby form a coating film, wherein a titanium oxide particle content Tic in 1 g of the powder particles of the powder coating material which is electrostatically attached to the object to be coated and a titanium oxide particle content Tio in 1 g of the powder particles of the powder coating material before being sprayed satisfy a relationship of Expression: Tio0.90TicTio1.10.

A retroreflective powder coating composition including a film-forming resin and a plurality of retroreflective particles. The film-forming resin including a base particle, a metallic coating, a pigment coating composition, and a substantially transparent siloxane coating.

A multilayer coating film includes a lustrous layer containing a luster material and a colored layer containing a reddish coloring agent, and having translucency. Regarding a Y value of an XYZ colorimetric system calibrated with a standard white plate, when a light incident angle is 45, Y(5) represents a Y value of reflected light measured at a light receiving angle of 5, and Y(15) represents a Y value of reflected light measured at a light receiving angle of 15, the lustrous layer satisfies the following: Y(5) is 30 or more to 700 or less; Y(15)=kY(5) (where k is a coefficient); and k is 0.01 or more to 0.3 or less. The concentration of the reddish coloring agent in the colored layer is 1 mass % or more to 17 mass % or less.

Novel compositions for producing particles, powders or strands with coatings of discrete carbon nanotubes wherein the coatings have a selected a range of porosity and the discrete carbon nanotubes have selected surface modifications to improve wetting or flow of material through the pores of the carbon nanotube coating. The coatings have less than about 20% mass of bundles or ropes of carbon nanotubes larger than about 5 micrometers thereby improving performance of the printed parts. The compositions may include coatings of a thickness from about 5 nanometers to about 5000 nanometers on particles of diameter less than about 5000 micrometers or polymer strands wherein the coating includes discrete carbon nanotubes and/or surface modification of the discrete carbon nanotubes.

A self-stratifying multi-component thermosetting coating powder composition, including component 1 which includes a hydroxyl-functional polyester resin (A) and a crosslinker (C1), and component 2 which includes a hydroxyl-functional acrylic resin and a crosslinker (C2), wherein components 1 and 2 are each present in a multitude of discrete particles, the crosslinkers (C1) and (C2) are selected from the group of isocyanates, and the composition further includes color pigments. A related process is provided for producing a multi-component thermosetting coating powder composition, as well as a powder coating obtained by using the coating powder composition, and a substrate being at least partially coated with the powder coating.

Disclosed are pigmented multifunctional barrier coating compositions for application to components such as aircraft interior components. In embodiments, compositions include a base coating component in an amount from 5 to 40 weight percent of the composition, a solvent in an amount from 50 to 70 weight percent of the composition, and at least two performance components from an FST-resistive component in an amount from 0.1 to 5 weight percent of the composition, a UV-resistive component in an amount from 0.1 to 2 weight percent of the composition, an antimicrobial component in an amount from 0.1 to 5 weight percent of the composition, and a dye component in an amount less than 0.5 weight percent of the composition. The composition further includes pigment in an amount up to 10 weight percent of the composition for imparting a cosmetic appearance to the component such as a metallic appearance.

The present disclosure relates to plasticized polymer compositions and a process for forming plasticized polymers. The process involves first coating the substrate with a plasticizer containing layer by dip coating. A powder layer of polymer is coated over it using a fluidized bed of polymer powder by dip forming process. The process involves cryogrinding the polymer pellets to below about 500 micrometer size particles, preferably below about 100 micrometer size particles, fluidizing the particles with or without fluidizing additives, by suspending the particles in air, by flowing air in a controlled manner upwards in a column resulting in an air solid suspension. The process can be used to make dip formed articles and dip coated substrates. This environmentally friendly process can be applied to bioplastics to make ecofriendly articles.

A coating material which is processable by non-impact printing to form at least a part of a coating layer representing an image, the coating material having an amorphous resin portion, is curable and is configured for being applied with a thickness of at least 15 m, the coating material having one or more of the following: a polyester resin having at least one incorporated acid monomer and wherein at least 10 weight percent of the at least one incorporated acid monomer is isophthalic acid; a polyester resin containing 1 to 100 w-% of cycloaliphatic glycol compounds with respect to the total weight of the glycol compounds of the polyester resin component; an acrylic resin; a fluorine containing polymer; a polyurethane resin.

A vehicle wheel includes a face portion and rim portion defining a wheel surface. The face portion includes a plurality of spokes extending radially outwardly from a central portion to the rim portion interconnecting the face portion to the rim portion. A translucent polymer coating defines an outermost coating of the surface of the wheel where the translucent polymer coating is tinted for reflecting a first portion of light illuminating the wheel and allowing a second portion of light to pass through the translucent polymer coating. The second portion of light that passes through the translucent polymer coating reflects the surface of the wheel defining a third portion of light.

A dark powder dispersion liquid including a dark pigment, composite tungsten oxide particles and a solid medium, wherein a mass ratio of the dark pigment to the composite tungsten oxide particles (mass of dark-colored pigment/mass of composite tungsten oxide fine particles) is 0.01 or more and 5 or less.