prevent future incidents. In this spirit, we wish you always a “hand's breadth of water beneath your keel” or for the sailors among you “fair winds and a following sea”. This is how to find the batch number [...] Please send an e-mail as soon as possible to our product safety department via ps@hesse-lignal.de . The exact product number and batch number will be required when you request of the declaration of conformity
we’re contributing to that. It basically concerns the three pillars of sustainability – economy, ecology and social issues – so we’ve decided to certify this via DIN EN ISO 90001, 45001, 50001 and 14001, since [...] standard of the German Sustainability Code (DNK) to ensure transparent communication. And we’ll apply the regulations in the EU Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD*) once they are finalized. This is the [...] of sustainability is too important for us to play marketing games with it. *Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
picture and look at our major lacquer families. FANTASTIC family (solvent PU), COOL family (1C water-based paint), PERFECT family (2C PU water-based lacquer). In the world of cars, they correspond to the [...] waste, save solvents, check application quantities and simply leave out unnecessary components (crosslinkers).
exploring all the options, an employee from the "Sustainability" strategy group asked the management the decisive question at the turn of the year 2021/2022: "How much longer do you want to wait? We can all [...] until finally the Hesse family, together with the top management and strategy group, made a decision: "Yes, we are going down this path: in future, Hesse Lignal will completely dispense with solvent-based products
publish on our website. On the product pages and the service pages you will detect a menu item "changes in the product range". Here you will find information on sales items that will be removed from the
in CO2 savings of up to 1 kg/m² of coated surface . Okay, this doesn't look like much at first glance, but let's take a closer look: even if you “only” coat 20 m² a day, you’ve already saved 20 kg of CO2 [...] special status in our company. Our “Vision 2030” is making a very tangible impact on our product range in the coming years. Read more about it White paper on the topic of “Hydro Lacquer” Vision 2030: Imminent [...] coated surface, you’d have saved as much CO2 as you would consume on a car journey of around 500 km! (given an average diesel consumption of 7.5 l/100 km). That's quite a correlation, isn't it? And the savings
lacquers (such as COOL-TOP HE 6509x(gloss level)), genuine 2C Hydro lacquers (such as PERFECT-TOP HDE 5400x(gloss level), (mixing ratio: 10 : 1 with HDR 5091) and solvent-based 2C PU lacquers (such as: FA [...] are indispensable during (spray) application of both lacquer systems . These include: (abridged excerpts from documentation issued by the Berufsgenossenschaft Holz und Metall – BGHM) Before commencing work: [...] Wear protective goggles and gloves (such as nitrile) Only use lacquers in well-ventilated areas (such as a lacquering booth (Fig. 1)) or at workplaces with extraction (e.g. point extraction, extraction wall/spray
of 60 - 75 % can generally be expected. But the savings potential quickly becomes clear if you merely consider the energy input of an LED (around 6 kW) compared with that of a mercury lamp (around 18 kW) [...] allows lamps to be switched off during short or clocked process pauses Less distance to the workpiece (10 - 70mm) than with traditional lamps Very low heat generation, resulting in longer service life of sanding [...] savings are even larger when an LED lamp replaces the combination of a gallium and a mercury lamp (together around 36kW). But beware, since there are different types of LED lamp on the market: manufacturer
surface (image 1 on the left) and a lacquered surface (image 2 on the right) reveals very smooth surfaces in both cases. You can find the images in the picture gallery at the end of this post. (The image [...] the surface. In other words it kills bacteria. Unfortunately it can’t differentiate between “good” and “bad” bacteria. Yet bacteria are of utmost importance for all life and fulfil tasks that are essential [...] body. A colony of bacteria can therefore increase given a suitable source of nutrient on a surface (such as body fluids). Viruses don’t have their own metabolism, so they can’t reproduce on surfaces. They
practical guidance, we recommend our white paper o n the topic of water-based lacquer and our Cool family .
thinner that can be added in % relates to the lacquer/hardener mixture and should be carefully observed, especially when using water-based lacquers. For example, adding 5 % water to a HYDRO-PUR MATO la [...] ratio specified on the label or in the lacquer’s technical information. But what does a mixing ratio (by volume) 10 : 1 actually mean? A mixing ratio 10 : 1 means that you need 10 parts of lacquer and 1 part [...] mixing ratio here is given by volume, the component parts have to be measured according to volume too (i.e. in litres). A suitable measuring container will obviously be useful. If you want to harden 5 litres
management representative, Dr Sven A. Thomsen (Head of Research & Development), particularly highlights the oil from Iberian dragon’s head (Lallemantia iberica): “The oil from this plant is an outstanding binder; [...] In this context, Dr Thomsen proudly emphasizes: “Yet we were able to demonstrate in this project that a BRC (bio renewable carbon) proportion of 30 % can be achieved without reducing the beneficial properties [...] In this context, Dr Thomsen proudly emphasizes: “Yet we were able to demonstrate in this project that a BRC (bio renewable carbon) proportion of 30 % can be achieved without reducing the beneficial properties
assume a 20 % proportion of renewable raw materials in the product . The left column in the figure below illustrates our calculation. We also consider all other substances, here at 20 % each: (organic (binder [...] (binder, petroleum-based), inorganic (filling material, pigment), solvent (volatile) and water (volatile)). There are however also other display options, as shown on the right in the illustration: The renewable [...] what does BRC (bio-renewable carbon) actually represent? Renewable raw materials are raw materials that consist of carbonaceous plant or animal materials. The designation BRC (bio-renewable carbon) refers
certificates? You can download the corresponding certificates here: www.hesse-lignal.de/unternehmen/ .
unfortunately become as diverse as they are confusing. In addition to the well-known ones, such as the “Blue Angel”, we’re receiving more and more enquiries about eco labels, especially in relation to building [...] obtain an eco-INSTITUT label? What is relevant is that the entire workpiece and all its components (in the furniture sector including chipboard, glue, veneer and lacquer) comply as a whole with the required [...] and raw materials each have an eco-INSTITUT label. The first step involves the product data (declaration of ingredients) being pre-checked at the institute. This is followed by sampling within your production
discussions involved optimisations in lacquer processing. Small talk. Then came the crucial phrase: “We can hear birdsong again” These sounds of nature had been silenced for years. What changed to enable [...] solvent-based products to water-based lacquers. This virtually eliminated the emissions from solvents (VOC). The impacts can be observed in the immediate vicinity. The birds are returning. An inspiring example