A fruitful collaboration project with the prominent Dutch firm DSM has given rise to a new water-based coatings line for interiors called “Iridea Bio“.
The new “Iridea Bio” coatings have been made with materials whose renewable nature derives from innovative processes aimed at refining “waste” vegetable matter which cannot be transformed into food for humans.
These coatings, made from vegetable matter by the ICA Group, are resilient, resistant to chemicals and lightfast. They are also ideal for industrial processing, just like other corresponding oil-derived products from ICA.
They have been formulated with acrylic-based resins and, compared to other products on the market made with alkyd resins from renewable sources, they are quicker drying, harder and possess greater non-yellowing properties. What is more, as compared to similar alkyd-derived products, “Iridea Bio” monocomponent and bicomponent coats are easier to sand and more resistant when subsequent coats are applied, meaning they can be used in intensive industrial processing cycles.
The creation of an outstandingly innovative product like IRIDEA BIO was the result of several years of study, experimentation and collaboration with a major international player in the chemical industry – DSM.
Acutely aware of the need for greater environmental sustainability, as early on as 2013, ICA Group’s research and development laboratories began to devise and run tests on a new formula with a view to improving ICA’s production mainstay – water-based coatings for interiors. The joint project with DSM, a technologically weighty partner with extensive experience in producing resins from renewable sources, took the form of introducing innovative materials derived from renewable sources into the formula for water-based coatings for interiors.
“Iridea Bio” is the ICA Group’s latest technological breakthrough and it is a high-performance product in technical terms which fully respects the environment and the well-being of its end users.
