Stainless steel powder as a protective and decorative pigment for steel structures in organic coating industries

Abstract

In recent years a new metallic pigment was brought to the attention of paint formulators, namely stainless steel. The stainless steel pigmented coatings show much greater resistance to abrasion than the other metallic pigmented coatings. This pigment is used as a major pigment as well as a component of any multipigment systems for both protective and decorative coatings. Attempts to optimize the pigment in epoxy‐polyamide medium by a polarization method. Evaluates the protective behaviour of optimized coating on mild steel by mechanical, accelerated and electrochemical methods. Studies the surface morphology of the primer by scanning electron microscopy (SCM). The electrochemical behaviour of the coating showed that the coating gave a very high order of resistance for longer duration in sodium chloride solution and also the metallic solution. Finds that the resistances produced by the polarization method and impedance method are well comparable for metallic powder pigmented coatings on steel structure in chloride solution.

Citation

Selvaraj, M. (1997), "Stainless steel powder as a protective and decorative pigment for steel structures in organic coating industries", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/00035599710157396