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Specialty Coatings for Architectural Applications
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Architectural Specialty Coatings
Specialty coatings for wood, concrete, and more
From primers and sealers to gloss paints and wood stains, our innovations address a wide range of demanding architectural coatings applications. Our portfolio is tailored to customer needs, offering high gloss with lower VOCs, stain-blocking primers with excellent multi-substrate adhesion, durable concrete coatings that withstand vehicular traffic, and wood protection across diverse decking materials. We continue to explore new specialty architectural applications to help customers achieve outstanding results.
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Exterior Wood Stains
Advanced polymer technology supports exterior wood stains that showcase natural wood grain, protect against weathering, and help extend service life. Solid color and restoration coatings also help hide surface imperfections.
Elastomeric Wall Coatings
High-solids elastomeric and semiflexible polymers offer excellent dirt pickup resistance, even in zinc oxide-free formulations, along with outstanding elongation, low-temperature tensile strength, and alkali resistance for cementitious surfaces.
Floor Paint
High-performance concrete floor coating solutions offer resistance to hot tire pickup and chemicals with adhesion to concrete in a user-friendly one-component system, helping meet growing demand for easier-to-apply, high-durability coatings.
High Gloss and Trim
High-gloss polymer technology offers exceptional gloss, block resistance, and chemical resistance at lower VOC levels—making it ideal for high-touch interior applications.
Specialty Primer
Advanced primer technologies include water-based stain-blocking resins, high-performing solutions for zinc oxide-free formulations, all-acrylic general-purpose primers, and multi-substrate adhesion solutions for wood, metal, and cementitious surfaces.
Specialty Sealers
Designed for residential concrete sealers, these polymers enable <100 g/L VOC formulations with durable gloss or matte finishes, strong adhesion, and excellent resistance to water whitening, stains, and household chemicals.
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RHOPLEX™ 2510 Acrylic Emulsion
Designed for garage floors, concrete sealers, and high-gloss coatings, this 100% acrylic emulsion offers excellent hardness development, block resistance, and adhesion to multiple substrates.
AVANSE™ 360 Acrylic Emulsion
100% acrylic emulsion for exterior wood coatings, offering performance across transparent to solid-color stains. Provides early rain resistance, strong adhesion to damp wood, abrasion resistance, color retention, and durability.
OPTI-MATT™ MT-8 Acrylic Emulsion Extender
Emulsion extender designed to replace inorganic extenders in paint formulations, helping to enable exceptional scuff and mar resistance with reduced color transfer. Achieves matte through eggshell sheens and offers improved durability in low-sheen formulations.
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Formulation solutions
Different projects call for different coatings formulations. No matter the application, our specialty coating technologies meet a wide variety of performance requirements.
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Explore binder solutions for specialty architectural coatings.
Explore how OPTI-MATT™ MT-8 Acrylic Emulsion Extender imparts scuff and mar resistance for durability in low-sheen coatings.
Improve one-component garage floor coatings’ adhesion and hot tire pickup resistance with RHOPLEX™ 2510.
Explore Dow’s binder portfolio for architectural coatings.
Learn how ELASTENE™ Technology can improve high quality exterior flexible and elastomeric paints.
Specialty Coatings FAQ
Common raw materials in specialty coatings include:
- Binders and resins: acrylics, epoxies, polyurethanes, alkyds, and silicones.
- Pigments: titanium dioxide for opacity and whiteness, iron oxides and organic pigments for color, and functional pigments.
- Carriers: water in waterborne systems and organic solvents in solventborne systems.
- Additives: dispersants, defoamers, rheology modifiers, functional additives, coalescents, UV stabilizers, and biocides.
Each family shapes how the finished coating looks, performs, and holds up over time.
Most formulators buy coatings raw materials directly from a materials science supplier like Dow or through an authorized distributor.
Here’s the path to purchase:
- Define your requirements
- Research raw materials and formulation approaches
- Choose your channel
- ocumentation, samples, and technical support
- Evaluate and validate through lab and field trials
- Confirm supply reliability
- Place an order
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