Why Paint Your Bottles with Water-based Paint?

Water-based paints are the future of glass bottle coatings...the very near future. 

The transition from solvent-based paints, such as urethanes, to water-based is not a difficult one. Although there are differences, there are also a number of similarities between water-based and solvent-based paints.

Both technologies are the same in their core composition. Both are composed of a pigment for color and a binder for a film. The pigments used are often identical, giving water-based paints the same light-fastness and color options as a solvent-based paint. The binders, while chemically different, are both forms of an acrylic and each are made specifically for exterior uses, giving water-based paints the durability necessary for a coating. The key element which separates the two is the carrying agent, that is, the mode by which the pigment and binder are transmitted from the gun to the substrate.

Conventional paints use solvent, which rapidly dissipates from the surface for chemically controlled time windows, whereas water-based paints utilize water, which evaporates at a slower rate depending on temperature, humidity and air flow. The cost of the solvent-based paint's quicker cure time is the release of noxious fumes into the air, a major drawback compared to water-based paints. 

This difference between water-based paint and solvent-based paint makes water-based paint become more and more popular in glass bottle spray painting industry. Volatile organic compound (VOC) content has been a popular topic lately, largely due to increasingly restrictive regulations across the world requiring lower VOC levels in various paint and coatings applications. Water-based paint (typically lower VOC), when VOC need to be took into consideration, enjoys a big advantage over solvent-based paint (normally high VOC). Using water-based paint for bottle spray painting will bring in below benefits:

1.     Lower VOC and less environmental impact. Able to meet relevant requirements .

2.     Equal coating performance.

3.     Better coating resistance to chemical

4.     Safe for transportation, storage and application

5.     Lower application cost

If you are interested in water-based paint for glass bottle, you may contact us for more information and ask for free paint samples or sprayed bottle samples.