Born from a need for a harder than silicone decorative glass coating, DecoVas™ was created. A silicone hybrid hard coating, staying within our expertise of silicone coatings, DecoVas™, is a ceramic like silicone hybrid coating designed for screen print and roller coater applications. Extremely durable and able to be applied to a wide range of substrates, the likes of which are not fully uncovered yet.
Many colors possible
99% Solids
<10 g/l VOC’s
6H Hardness
5000+ QUV Hours and no change
21 day 145°F water soak @ no change
200 MEK Double Rubs
4-6 Hours Screen Print Open Time
≈ 4 Hour Pot Life
Ambient or Oven Cure
Substrates tested:
Glass
Aluminum
Steel
Polycarbonate
Polyvinyl Chloride
Polyethylene
Polypropylene
Nylon 6,6
Treated Acrylite
Wood
This product is intended to be used as a decorative screen print ink for the above listed substrates, offering designs and patterns, just about anything you can make from a screen print. Also works very well in a roller coater but it should be noted that it will not perform as well as our standard OPACI-COAT-300® or 500® in the harsh environment of the spandrel glass cavity and will not be approved for those applications.
Just a few examples of how this coating can be used; from office partitions in opaque colors to frost and sandblast patterns.
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