What Does the Future Hold for Paint? Back

Date published: September 26, 2018

The collaborative paint supplier of the Hankinson Group, PPG (http://corporate.ppg.com/Home.aspx), recently held its inaugural innovation summit in Montreaux, Switzerland, where they discussed what the future holds for paint.

Recent innovations that were highlighted during the three-day summit included:

• Paint that changes colour in response to heat – known as thermochromic technology – enabling assessment of an overheating object simply by sight;
• Automotive paint systems that minimise energy consumption, emissions and operating costs, including one system that reduces energy costs to paint a car by 30%;
• A technology inspired by eggplants that allows solar heat to pass through topcoat pigments while reflecting heat away from the surface of aircraft, automobiles and buildings;
• A coatings technology that enables wind turbines to turn more rapidly, generating increased energy;
• A coating that can repel substances, allowing people to wash their cars by simply leaving them out in the rain and airplanes to minimise the build-up of ice while flying.

Group Chief Executive Stephen Hankinson said: “PPG have now been our supplier of choice for 2 years for both architectural and protective coatings and it is rewarding to see that they are operating at the cusp of technology and arriving at solutions that will impact us all, not just for the next year but for the next twenty.”

PPG are represented in the UK by Johnstone’s: http://www.johnstonestrade.com.