Nippon Paint develops silicon-based water repellent coating

Nippon Paint develops silicon-based water repellent coating

Keywords: Nippon Paint, Silicon, Coatings

Japans leading paint producer Nippon Paint has succeeded in developing a silicon-based super water repellent coating possessing equivalent properties to existing fluorine-based materials. Because fluorine compounds are expensive,fluorine-based water repellent paints have been less than satisfactory from a cost viewpoint. Nippon Paint claims that the new coating solves former problems and enables water repellency to be delivered at relatively low cost.