Croma Lacke

Stains

The wood coating process has the precise function to enhance and improve the aspect of wood, by highlighting its grain and pore. Stains give a clear or semi-covering, uniform and lasting colour to wood, and they reduce the chance of colour fading. Stain application enhances even the most common woods, which become aesthetically more agreeable.

Stains can be both water and solvent-based.

The particular formulation of water-based stains offers the following advantages:

• They guarantee excellent wettability to the supports;
• They distinguish themselves for their high aesthetic performances of clearness and enhancement of woods,
• They are non-flammable
• They contribute to reduction of emissions.

Solvent-based stains are particularly indicated to meet the needs of industrial production, as their good aesthetic performance matches their high drying rapidity, guaranteeing very high productivity standards.

The range includes:

Solvent-based stains

Concentrate dyes
These concentrates have to be used in the colouring of clear paints such as nitro-cellulose or polyurethane. They have good colouring power and make wood bright and clear. The colours are characterized by good light resistance even though they are not suitable for sun exposure.

Stains for roller application
Formulated with special micronized organic pigments guaranteeing good resistance to light. They can be used for the coating of flat surfaces by roller coater, giving good uniformity.

Antiquing glazes
Stains which can be removed with sandpaper in order to obtain antiquing or decapé effect. They differ from each other for their easier or more difficult removal, which indicates their suitability for hand or scotch-brite sanding.

Uniforming Glazes
Stains giving the surface a decorative antiquing effect, which is a typical characteristic of old style furniture.

Water-based stains

Positive effect stains
these stains have a hydro-soluble base, for the staining of coniferous wood (pine and fir); they have a good resistance to light and a very high resistance to water. They are available in the wax version, to give wood a special softness; and in the over-coatable version, for industrial cycles, having good chemical resistance.

Dipping water-based stains
Hydro soluble stains mainly used for the coating of chairs and woodturned items, they give the surface excellent uniformity they give the surface good uniformity in colour.

UV Cured Products

UV coating technology allows a very high productivity, using minimum quantities of products per m². UV products allow high reduction of drying times, and considerable lowering of emissions. These are products for industrial lines for large scale productions. UV products are studied to be use effectively with any kind of plant, and to meet all production needs, offering the best guarantees of reliability and certainty of result.

The range includes both water and solvent-based UV products for professional wood coating.

Emission-free UV products
Emission-free products were formulated to answer the manufacturers’ need for coatings which could guarantee health safety. These products also contribute to considerably improve the working environment for the workers which use them.

Residual emissions contribute to indoor pollution and are a risk for the health of the purchaser of the finished product. In particular, they concentrate inside furniture items and remain there for a long time. They can be recognized by their typical “new furniture” smell.