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COLOURIMETRY

The new solvent-based pigmented pastes show improvements over the previous bases. These changes are reflected in improvements in lightfastness, chemical resistance, recoatability or outside surface resistance.

In the table of specifications shown below, we can see: its lightfastness, its outside surface resistance or its capacity to be degraded with white, as well as its resistance to acids and bases for application in different formats.

COLOUR REFERENCE LIGHTFASTNESS DIN ISO 105-B01 CHEMICAL RESISTANCE DIN ISO 105-A02
FULL TONE DEGRADED PITCH ACIDS BASES FULL TONE DEGRADED PITCH
WHITE
DGB-1000B 8 8 5 5 5 5
INTENSE WHITE
DGB-1020B 8 8 5 5 5 5
YELLOW OCRE
DGB-2000B 8 8 5 5 5 5
INDIAN YELLOW
DGB-2000B 8 7-8 5 5 4 4
MEDIUM YELLOW
DGB-2120B 8 7-8 5 4 5 4-5
LEMON YELLOW
DGB-2700B 8 8 5 5 4-5 4-5
PINE GREEN
DGB-3400B 8 7-8 5 5 5 4-5
PRUSSIAN BLUE
DGB-4300B 8 7-8 5 5 5 4-5
VIOLET
DGB-5020B 8 7-8 5 5 4-5 4
BORDEAUX FUCSIA
DGB-5200B 8 7-8 5 5 4-5 4
BRIGHT RED FERRARI
DGB-6400B 8 8 5 5 4-5 4
RED EARTH
DGB-6600B 8 8 5 5 5 5
AUXILIARY ORANGE
DGB-6820B 7-8 7-8 5 5 5 4-5
BLACK
DGB-9000B 8 8 5 5 5 5
INTENSE BLACK
DGB-9020B 8 8 5 5 5 5

Grey scale (Chemical resistance/Repainting capacity/Outdside surface resistance. DIN ISO 105-A02).

The colour variation is specified by associating it to a standardised scale where pairs of greys are represented where one of them maintains a constant hue, intensity and saturation while the other varies its saturation appearing lighter and lighter.

The scale covers:

5: No change in colour
4: Slight variation
3: Variation in an easily noticeable way
2: Intense variation
1: Very intense variation.

Blue scale (For lightfastness test. DIN ISO 105-B01)

The blue scale is a set of 8 dyes whose fundamental characteristic is that each of them is 10 times more solid than their immediate predecessor:

1 = very low lightfastness
8 = very high lightfastness

The normative references for the determination of the indicated parameters are:

  • LIGHT SOLIDITY:
    DIN ISO 105-B01
  • CHEMICAL RESISTANCE:
    DIN ISO 105-A02
  • OUTSIDE SURFACE RESISTANCE:
    DIN ISO 105-A02
  • LIGHTFASTNESS- XENOTEST:
    EN ISO 105-B02:2000 (800147)
  • OUTSIDE SURFACE RESISTANCE- XENOTEST:
    EN ISO 105-B04:1998 (800171)

Vehicles for colours

High gloss alkyd polyurethane

  • KH8000T:
    TRANSPARENT HIGH GLOSS VEHICLE
  • KW1900T:
    HIGH GLOSS WHITE VEHICLE

High gloss acrylic

  • KZ8000T:
    TRANSPARENT HIGH GLOSS VEHICLE
  • KP1000T:
    HIGH GLOSS WHITE VEHICLE

Satin-finish alkyd polyurethane

  • KN8002T:
    TRANSPARENT SATIN-FINISH VEHICLE
  • KM1902T:
    WHITE SATIN VEHICLE

Satin acrylic

  • KS8002T:
    TRANSPARENT SATIN-FINISH VEHICLE
  • KT1902T:
    WHITE SATIN VEHICLE

Extra-matt alkyd polyurethane

  • KN8009T:
    TRANSPARENT MATT FINISH
  • KM1909T:
    WHITE MATTE FINISH

Extra matte acrylic

  • KS8009T:
    TRANSPARENT MATT FINISH
  • KT1909T:
    WHITE MATTE FINISH