New water-borne, fast drying products for wooden surfaces

Tikkurila’s new water-borne products, Akvi Top 30 FD and Akvi Primer MDF, are user-friendly and more environmentally compliant. They are ideal for the surface treatment of doors, panels and mouldings, and other wooden surfaces and boards.

Akvi Primer MDF is a fast drying, acrylate primer designed for priming MDF. However, it is also suitable for other wooden surfaces, such as plywood. Akvi Primer MDF is user-friendly, easy to sand and, as a one-component primer, does not require viscosity adjustments. This primer is ideal for spraying.

Akvi Top 30 FD is an acrylate-based topcoat, which has excellent properties with regard to stacking, chemical resistance and drying. It can be used on painting lines and is also easy to spray using conventional or airless spraying.The topcoat is ready to use and does not require viscosity adjustments. Akvi Top 30 FD is tintable in Temaspeed Fonte tinting system in FAL base paint.

Application and compatibility of products

Akvi Primer MDF is a primer designed for interior fixtures, doors, mouldings and other wooden surfaces. Catalysed-based products of the Diccoplast or Dicco Astral 35 series are recommended as topcoats for this primer. In addition, the water-borne UV-curing topcoats Luminol 25 and Luminol 40 N provide an excellent finish when applied on top of Akvi Primer MDF.

Akvi Top 30 FD can be used as a topcoat for finishing interior doors, panels, mouldings and other wooden surfaces and boards. Primers recommended for use with Akvi Top 30 FD are: Akvi Primer MDF, Diccoplast Primer or Dicco Surf Primer.

Reduced solvent emissions

Using Tikkurila’s water-borne paints, at least as part of the painting process, will help reduce VOC emissions and improve working and living environments. The Akvi Top 30 FD topcoat in particular has a considerably low VOC content.

Product details

Name:           Akvi Top 30 FD

Code:            454 8221 (FAL base paint), 454-s (shades)

Recommended spreading amount: 100-140 g/m2

Application methods: Conventional spraying, air-assisted high-pressure spraying or high-pressure spraying.

Drying conditions: Room temperature, increased temperature or line drying.

Name:           Akvi Primer MDF

Code:            006 5022

Recommended spreading amount: 100-150 g/m2

Application methods: Conventional spraying, air-assisted high-pressure spraying or high-pressure spraying.

Drying conditions: Room temperature, increased temperature or line drying.

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