enamels and coatings
enamels and coatings

Enamels – Simply Perfect

Highest professional quality with unsurpassed color variety

Beautify, protect, preserve: The professional enamel program by Caparol has the perfect product solutions for all interior as well as exterior areas. Whether classic solvent-based alkyd resin enamels or water-soluble qualities: Always make use of products made in Germany that convince all around.

High quality standard: The comprehensively high quality standard is ensured from the very beginning by laboratory tests and extensive material tests performed by our own research and development department. Tests conducted by independent test institutes confirm that our products reliably meet the high practical demands of various surfaces such as wood, metal or plastic.

5 Million Colors

In terms of design, the enamel product range scores high with its broad range of appealing colors that can be mixed. More than 5 million formulated colors guarantee an unsurpassed color variety. The LackChamp color fan displays the white, tinted, and effect colors of the most popular Capacryl and Capalac products. Apart from general information on the standard product range, Caparol mixed enamels and the Caparol 3D System: 

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Traditionally sustainable

Sustainable offers are an integral element of the Caparol corporate strategy. Our product developments focus on solutions that promote environmental and climate protection. Environmentally friendly water enamels comply with the increasing demands of customers and legislature. A series of products bear the environmental label "Blue Angel" and are certified in accordance with DIN EN 71-3 for use on children's toys.

 

Solvent-based enamels

Alkyd-resin enamels have proven their worth and have become widely accepted as the successor the traditional oil varnish. Caparol has been developing and optimising its solvent-base enamels since the early 1990 in order to meet the very highest processing and quality demands. All products comply with the VOC-Decopaint guideline.

With the Capalac brand professionals opt for a solvent-based product range with a wide variety of convincing advantages. Benefit from the classic painter's enamel, its broad diversity and many fields of application!

  • High covering power
  • Optimum flow
  • High fullness
  • High wear resistance
  • Excellent application properties
  • High durability
  • Optimum moisture resistance

Fast-drying, rust inhibitive priming coat with high adhesion on iron and steel and wash primer on aluminium, copper, zinc (galvanised surfaces), unplasticized (rigid) PVC, wood and derived timber products.

  • Fully-fledged anti-corrosive primer on iron and steel (according to German standard DIN 18363).
  • Fast-drying, already recoatable after 3 hours (white and pastel tints) up to 6 hours (when intensively tinted) with all alkyd resin enamels.
  • Excellent adhesion to many substrates.
  • High weather resistance.
  • Free of aromatic hydrocarbons.

AllGrund

High solid, anti-corrosive metal protective enamel for priming, intermediate and finishing coats. For exterior and interior use. Certified corrosion protection for steel and galvanised steel according to DIN EN ISO 12944-6.

  • Excellent adhesion.
  • High opacity (hiding/covering power) on component surfaces and edges.
  • Durable protection due to excellent weather resistance.
  • High solids content allows a better dry film thickness.
  • 1-Pot-Enamel System: Facilitates priming, intermediate and finishing coats with one product.
  • Test report for corrosiveness category C4, duration of conservation "long” on steel and galvanised steel according to DIN EN ISO 12944 part 6.
  • Available as enamel and mica types.
  • Tintable via ColorExpress in numerous colour shades.
  • Free of aromatic hydrocarbons.

Dickschichtlack

High abrasion resistant and hiding, coloured alkyd enamel for wood (timber) floors in living quarters..

  • High abrasion resistant
  • Good opacity (hiding/covering power)
  • Free of aromatic hydrocarbons
  • Resistant to normal household cleaners (detergents) and maintenance products

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Water-soluble enamels

The professional range of water-soluble enamels was developed by Caparol in the seventies and has been continuously optimised in terms of performance, covering power and application properties.

Water-soluble enamels are increasingly gaining market share. A generally increasing awareness for environmentally friendly and non-hazardous products and the legislation that this has brought about is consistently driving this development

At Caparol, the specialist can choose from two aqueous coating systems "Capacry" and "Capalac Aqua Alkyd" Both ranges guarantee professional quality and the latest state of the art.

The Capacryl program is the product of choice for odour-sensitive areas such as hospitals, nursery schools, schools, offices and interior residential areas. The "Capalac Aqua Alkyd" range encompasses water-emulsified PU-alkyd-resin enamels for interior as well as exterior application with all the benefits of classic solvent-based enamels.

  • Low odour
  • Good covering power
  • Block resistant
  • High weather-resistance
  • High scratch and impact resistance
  • Smooth application
  • No conversion of application methods required

For adhesion promoting priming coats on existing paint coatings, enamel coats, wood, zinc/galvanised surfaces, unplasticized (rigid) PVC, aluminium, copper and many other problematical substrates before applying acrylic or alkyd resin enamels. Do not use alkyd resin enamels on zinc/galvanised surfaces.

  • Water-dilutable.
  • Ecologically compatible.
  • Excellent adhesive strength (grip).
  • Fast-drying.
  • Diffusion-capable.
  • Easy to sand.
  • Suitable for use on children toys as per DIN EN 71-3

Haftprimer

High-grade intermediate and finishing coats on primed, dimensionally stable wood component parts, primed metals and unplastizised/rigid PVC, in the exteriors and interiors. 

  • Low odour.
  • Elegant and easy application.
  • Non-blocking.
  • High scratch resistance and shock strength.
  • Diffusion-capable.
  • Resistant to normal household cleaners.
  • Wet scrub resistance class to DIN EN 13 300: Class 1
    (corresponds to scrub-resistant according to DIN 53778).
  • Suitable for children toys according to DIN EN 71-3.
  • Resistant to disinfectants.

PU-SATIN

For glossy, ecologically compatible paintings of windows and doors. For interior and exterior use.

  • Water-thinnable/dilutable.
  • Ecologically compatible.
  • Low odour.
  • Non-blocking.
  • Excellent opacity (hiding/covering power) on surfaces and edges.
  • Resilient.
  • Resistant to normal window cleaners.
  • Diffusion-capable.

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