Stock Data

In our failure investigation (with the manufacturer’s assistance), we discovered the local coating supplier made two errors. First, it used the wrong tint base. It is common for coatings to be stocked in a white base by local suppliers, who then tint them to match any color by adding pigments. This manufacturer provides the coating in several bases to be compatible with rcs data different pigment combinations, but the supplier did not know the difference between them.

organic pigments subject to fading, rather than the specified inorganic (mineral) pigments. Again, the supplier did not know the difference. Both types of pigments will match the selected color initially, but some organic pigments fade rapidly in sunlight—less than a year in this case.

Since this EWC was a high-quality product, the remedy simply required applying.