Abstract

Today, automotive coatings are considered as an important market and play a major role in automobile
industries. The objective of this study is to make it simple and clear, and the majority of them not tried to compare
with different binder/resin system. Hence, this project studies standard film-forming resins (alkyd, epoxy, and
PUs) to compile and compare the processing ability and properties of different binder systems and its outcome
to have a single solvent-borne coating system with majority of properties required for an automotive coating
system. Based on the outcome results of solvent-borne system, further studies continue to waterborne coating
system, where waterborne system overcomes the major environmental issue such as VOCs released by solvent
borne. Experimental part majorly involves both short- and long-term properties such as wet paint properties
(consistency, transparency, storage stability, floating, and viscosity), dry film properties (gloss and Haze), and
system properties (accelerated weathering conditions WOM, QCT, corrosion test, hardness test, stone chipping,
and adhesion).