There is hardly any painting process worldwide that is as sophisticated as painting car bodies. If you occasionally watch older film classics, particularly from the 60s and 70s, you will know how far automotive painting has developed in recent decades. All layers perfectly interact with each other in a modern automotive painting system. The main task of a base paint is colour and effect generation, which requires that the binders work together perfectly with the effect pigments. First and foremost, the binders need to be capable of absorbing enough of the effect pigments and to sufficiently moisten them. ...