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 [...] Since 1 January 2024, we have no longer produced or sold nitrocellulose lacquers or solvent-based, acid-curing lacquers. This represents an important milestone on the way to our Vision 2030. A brief b [...] 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
PU systems (for coating furniture) in Germany during 2021 was around 10,750,000 ltr/kg. So 1 : 1 replacement of this quantity with water-based lacquer systems could result in saving 10,750,000 kg of CO2 [...] 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. At 100 m² of coated [...] CO2. (Equivalent to the CO2 emissions from a journey covering almost 540,000 km, so almost 14 times around our planet!) That would definitely be a major contribution to sustainability and the protection of
examined one version of typical 1C Hydro 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 [...] solvent-based 2C PU lacquers (such as: FANTASTIC-CLEAR DE 4877x(gloss level), (mixing ratio: 10 : 1 with DR 4071). Here is a rough summary of the findings: [...] systems (solvent-based and water-based) and largely exclude any health effects. We also commissioned the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Fraunhofer-Institut für Prod
practical guidance, we recommend our white paper o n the topic of water-based lacquer and our Cool family .
Requests for antimicrobial lacquer systems regularly increase in times of increased infection incidence, such as now during the coronavirus crisis. Eager entrepreneurs are trying to use the crisis to
Integrated management covering quality, workplace protection, energy and the environment Hesse Lignal has been recertified. Our processes and organisational structures in various business units have o
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
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 [...] developments and the “sustainability” concept demands good lacquers based on renewable raw materials. We as a lacquer producer collaborated with Pilot Pflanzenöltechnologie Magdeburg (PPM) e. V. in a project
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
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”. [...] 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
One focus is the redesign of our product portfolio, with the sub-objectives of eliminating solvents (VOCs) and using sustainable raw materials.
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 [...] the Ford S-Max Diesel with 2 towing capacity, the Volkswagen ID4 with 1 to and the Mercedes EQC with 1.8 to towing capacity. As long as you are on the road without a trailer, they all do their job equally [...] waste, save solvents, check application quantities and simply leave out unnecessary components (crosslinkers).
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 hardener. As the mixing ratio here is given by [...] quantity of 7 kg of PU Filler and a mixing ratio (gravimetric) 100 : 7 accordingly means that 0.49 kg of hardener needs to be weighed and mixed in. 100 parts of lacquer and 7 parts of hardener. [...] according to volume too (i.e. in litres). A suitable measuring container will obviously be useful. If you want to harden 5 litres of our 2C water-based lacquer, then you’ll need to add 0.5 litres of the appropriate
ratio of C12 and C14 isotopes alters depending on the formation age of these carbon compounds. The C stands for carbon and the number denotes the isotope. Perhaps you’ve already heard of the C14 method. [...] 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 [...] compounds derived from petroleum are several hundred million years old. Radiocarbon dating using the C14 method enables these substances to be analytically distinguished from petroleum-based carbon compounds
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