What is the difference between coating and paint?
 Apr 25, 2023|View:1576

There is such a long standing confusing topic, are coating and paint the same thing, and what does it have to do with resin?


First of all, coating is a chemical mixture material that can firmly cover the surface of an object for protection, decoration, marking and other special purposes. This material can be covered on the surface of an object with different construction techniques to form a firm adhesion and a certain strength. , continuous solid film, and the films formed in this way are collectively referred to as coating film, paint film or coating.


Coatings are generally composed of film-forming substances (including resins, emulsions), pigments (including coloring pigments, extender pigments), solvents and additives (auxiliaries). It can be divided into two types: liquid and solid.Belongs to fine chemical products.


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Paint refers to the general term for organic solvent based or high solid solvent free oil based paints. Most of the early paints used vegetable oil as raw material, so they were called paints.


However, in fact, coatings can cover solid powder coatings and liquid paints, but paints can only be liquid paints, which cannot be equated with coatings, and the term coatings can cover all types of products in the industry.


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With the rapid development of industry, there are more and more varieties of coatings, and their quality and performance are also constantly improving. Many new coatings no longer contain oil components, so the term paint is not accurate enough. Therefore, various materials used for coating substances are commonly referred to as coatings, and paints are only one of the coatings. At the same time, with the development of science and technology and industrial demand, as well as the wide application of various polymer synthetic resins, coating products have undergone fundamental changes, so the accurate name is organic coatings.