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Advantages: Overview
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Performance Data: Overview
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Invision High Gloss vs. Paint
With paintless technology emerging as the future of Class "A" finish processes, A. Schulman offers Invision Enhanced Polyolefin resins as the material alternative to paint and paintfilm. This superior product provides performance capabilities unattainable with paint and paintfilm such as resistance to chipping, cracking and peeling and increased durability and flexibility.
Outlined below are some of the many benefits associated with Invision Enhanced Polyolefin resins compared to the limitations commonly found with conventional paint.
| TRADITIONAL PAINT | INVISION HIGH GLOSS | ||
| A. | Fades with environmental exposure. | A. | Resistant to color fading due to environmental exposure. |
| B. | Paint lines are required to comply with increasingly more stringent and costly EPA regulations with respect to VOC emissions and OSHA regulations with respect to worker health and safety. | B. | Recyclable-material is completely thermoplastic allowing regrind to feed back into the material stream. All harmful pollution is eliminated. |
| C. | Chips, cracks and peels easily due to limited flexibility. | C. | Resistant to chipping, cracking or bubbling because of patented multi-layer structure. |
| D. | Painting plastics leads to reduced impact performance and fragmentation upon impact in low temperatures. | D. | Extreme flexibility, durability and ductility in sub-zero temperatures reducing fragmentation potential. |
| E. | Spray efficiency limitations in painted parts with complex geometry and recessed features. | E. | Highly durable, impact resistant. |
| F. | Companies seek to reduce or even eliminate the need for painting the exterior and interior metal and plastic components of their vehicles. | F. | Paintless technology is the future of high gloss, Class "A" finishes. |
| G. | Painted surface quality is sensitive to fillers in the substrate material. | G. | Substrate fillers do not impact quality of Invision’s finish. |
| H. | Paint lines require high amounts of capital investments and high ongoing operational expense in electrical, gas and water consumption. | H. | Invision requires minimal capital investment compared to paint processes. |
| I. | Paint processes yield parts with orange peel surface effects, diminishing the overall part appearance. | I. | Surfaces of parts produced with Invision are mirror finish in appearance. |
