Ppg Advanced Surface Technologies, LLC

Karl Worwag Lack- Und Farbenfabrik Gmbh & Co. Kg

Peter Färber

Helge Warta

Heiko Veth

A multilayer color and/or effect coating on a substrate, wherein the coating includes a clearcoat layer having a dry film thickness of 10 μm to 50 μm, and the coating includes a basecoat layer having a dry film thickness of 6 μm to 35 μm, incorporating color and/or effect pigments whose orientation within the basecoat layer influences the optical properties of the coating, and the basecoat layer includes control particles that control the orientation of the color and/or effect pigments, wherein the control particles are characterized by a d10 of at least 50% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer and by a d50 of 80% to 120% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer, and by a d100 of not more than 200% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer.

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Gärtringen, Germany

Peter Färber