PPG launches reduced strength tinter range

PPG Industries believes that its new range of six reduced strength tinters offers an ideal means of reducing costs when mixing small paint quantities, such as for spot repairs.

With regular tinters, mixing small amounts of paint in certain colour formulations has been difficult since often only a miniscule addition of tinter is needed. The choice came down to mixing a small quantity to be economical, but then risk adding a touch too much or too little resulting in a wrong colour match, or mixing a larger quantity, which is wasteful.
In these circumstances PPG?s new reduced strength tinters are the perfect solution since, depending on the colour, they are only 1/5th to 1/20th of the strength of regular tinters. They also come in the most useful colours ? D966 White, D967 Black, D968 Red Oxide, D969 Yellow Oxide, D970 Blue and D971 Green ? and are compatible with PPG?s Deltron GRS paint system.

The advantages can be easily seen by looking at a tyHowever, using PPG?s new reduced strength tinter significantly reduces the potential for error. The ratio then becomes: 100 grams of white regular strength tinter and 2.0 grams of black reduced strength tinter (given a median strength of 1/10th full strength). Assuming the same scales are used the amount of black being added could then vary between 1.95 grams and 2.05 grams which results in a ten fold reduction in the potential error to a very low 2.5%. At that point it?s unlikely to have a serious affect on the resulting colour match.
PPG?s new reduced strength tinters range allows smaller amounts of paint to be conveniently mixed with far greater accuracy and that can only lead to improved efficiency and reductions in paint shop costs.