It is provided a method for producing a support material provided with at least one anti-fingerprint coating including the steps of: applying at least one layer of at least one powdered resin to at least one side of the support material; melting-on the at least one applied layer of the one powdered resin; applying at least one acrylate-containing dispersion to the melted-on resin layer; and drying and curing the layered structure.

In order to repair any damage to an originally applied paint film, a method of the invention facilitates repair of the paint film by removing essentially only that portion of the paint film that is damaged. After removal of the damaged portion of the paint film, a series of abrading, application, and polishing steps results in a repaired portion of the paint film.

The invention relates to a coating system comprising a binder composition comprising a polymer having a Mn of 6,000 to 60,000 g/mol, a Mw of 20,000 to 300,000 g/mol, a Tg of 30 to 180° C. and an acid value of at most 3.0 mg KOH/g, and a RMA crosslinkable coating composition comprising a component A with at least two acidic protons C—H in activated methylene or methine groups, a component B with at least two activated unsaturated C═C groups and a base crosslinking catalyst C; and its use for improving adhesion of the RMA crosslinkable coating composition, in particular to wood substrates.

Disclosed is a method for treating a grained material. A nonlimiting example of the method includes the operations of providing a workpiece having grains, exasperating a surface of the workpiece to open the grains, applying at least one coat of a base paint to the exasperated surface, applying at least one layer of clear coat on the base paint, applying at least one of a glaze and a paint on the clear coat, and surface treating to reveal grains of the workpiece. Disclosed also are items of furniture and sheet materials treated by the aforementioned process.

The present invention provides a multilayer coating film-forming method that is capable of forming a multilayer coating film with excellent finished appearance and excellent luster. The aqueous base paint (X) is applied by using a rotary-atomization bell-shaped coater under coating conditions of a shaping air pressure of 0.15 to 0.25 MPa and a paint discharge amount of 100 to 300 cm3/min. The viscosity 60 seconds after the application of the aqueous base paint (X), measured at a temperature of 23° C. and a shear rate of 0.1 sec-1, is 90 to 160 Pa.Math.s, the solids content 60 seconds after the application is 20 to 40 mass %, and the film thickness 60 seconds after the application is 17 to 35 μm. The effect pigment dispersion (Y) contains a flake-aluminum pigment (A) with an average thickness of 1 nm or more and less than 70 nm, a flake-aluminum pigment (B) with an average thickness of 70 nm to 250 nm, a hydroxy-containing acrylic resin (C), a rheology control agent (D), a surface-adjusting agent (E), and water, the effect pigment dispersion (Y) having a solids content of 2 to 9 mass %. The effect coating film after curing has a film thickness of 0.5 to 2.0 μm.

The present disclosure is drawn to covers for electronic devices. In one example, a cover for an electronic device can include a cover substrate, a primer layer on the substrate, a radiation-cured coating layer on the primer layer, a colorant coating layer on the radiation-cured coating layer, and a clear coating layer on the colorant coating layer. The radiation-cured layer can include a three-dimensional pattern impressed into the radiation-cured coating layer. The colorant layer can conform to the three-dimensional pattern.

The present invention provides a coating film including a structure represented by formula (I)-1, a multilayer coating film including said coating film and a method for producing the same.

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This invention provides a method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method comprising forming a multilayer coating film that has excellent blackness, high reflectance of an infrared laser, and excellent coating film performance. The method for forming a multilayer coating film includes forming a first colored coating film containing a titanium oxide pigment, in which the diffuse reflectance at a wavelength of 905 nm or diffuse reflectance at a wavelength of 1550 nm, or both, is 40% or more; forming a second colored coating film containing at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of (A1) a perylene black pigment, (A2) a black metal oxide complex pigment, and (A3) two or more pigments selected from the group consisting of blue pigments, red pigments, yellow pigments, and green pigments; forming a third colored coating film containing a carbon black pigment; and forming a clear coating film; wherein the multilayer coating film has a lightness L*(45° of 3 or less and a chroma C*(45° of 1 or less, and wherein the diffuse reflectance at a wavelength of 905 nm or the diffuse reflectance at a wavelength of 1550 nm of the multilayer coating film, or both, is 10% or more.

Roofing granules having a color coating layer are covered with a clear, transparent or translucent outer coating composition including a functional material, such nanoparticles of anatase titanium dioxide.

Described herein is a method for producing at least one coating (B1) on a substrate, including provision of a coating material composition (BZ1) (1), determination of at least one characteristic variable of a drop size distribution within a spray formed on atomization of the coating material composition (BZ1), and/or of the homogeneity of this spray (2), reduction of the at least one characteristic variable and/or homogeneity of the spray (3), application of at least the coating material composition (BZ1) obtained after step (3), to a substrate, to form at least one film (F1) (4), and physical curing, chemical curing and/or radiation curing at least of the at least one film (F1) formed on the substrate by application of (BZ1), to produce the coating (B1) on the substrate. Also described herein is a coating (B1) located on a substrate and obtainable by means of this method.