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Krystal Mindeck, product director of paint, at Valspar. Related: 3 Ways to Identify and Match Any Paint Color, According to Experts. Reasons Your Paint Is Peeling.
The Valspar Corporation is an American manufacturer of paint and coatings based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With over 11,000 employees in 26 countries and a company history that spans two centuries, it was the sixth largest paint and coating corporation in the world. [4] Valspar was founded in 1806 as a paint dealership in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Valspar 2024 Color of the Year selection was a relaxing shade called Renew Blue; for 2025, Valspar is going in a moodier direction. Encore is a deep, striking blue. Its versatility can span ...
Premature hardening of paint, called "skinning" because it forms a skin on the surface of the paint, can be inhibited by the addition of volatile ligands. These ligands bind to the oil drying agents, then lose their inhibiting action as they themselves slowly volatilize and leave the drying agent to work.
A non-drying oil is an oil which does not harden and remains liquid when it is exposed to air. This is as opposed to a drying oil, which hardens (through polymerization) completely, or a semi-drying oil, which partially hardens.
Paint maker Valspar's (NYS: VAL) third-quarter revenues surged, but its bottom line slumped due to high costs -- yet another story of cost eating into revenues. But Valspar might still be worth a ...
The "drying", hardening, or, more properly, curing of oils is the result of autoxidation, the addition of oxygen to an organic compound, and the subsequent crosslinking. This process begins with an oxygen molecule (O 2 ) in the air inserted into carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds adjacent to one of the double bonds within the unsaturated fatty acid.
The loss of electrons in paint is also claimed to be the cause of “paint oxidisation” and the electronic system is also supposed to protect the paint. [4] However, there is no peer reviewed scientific testing and validation supporting the use of these devices and corrosion control professionals find they do not work.