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on Paint and Coatings

Dulux has helped protect, maintain and enhance the spaces and places where Kiwis live, work and play since 1939. While it is synonymous with creating better homes, Dulux also plays a critical role in creating and improving the infrastructure we see across New Zealand, every day.

Dulux is committed to the ongoing research and development of innovation that reduce the environmental impact of our products, without affecting their outstanding performance. The health and safety of consumers, customers and the environment form a core element of Dulux’s business.

13 August 2015

LRVs and How Substrates Influence Colour Choice

LRV stands for Light Reflectance Value and is a measure of the amount of visible light reflected by a surface. As a design professional you're probably well aware of this, but what you may be less familiar with is the effect that chosen colours can have on the integrity of the substrate beneath.

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21 July 2015

Compliance Benchmarks that Matter Most for Paint and Coatings

At Dulux, we seem to hear about a new type of certification on a monthly basis. Each has a different focus but often overlaps with other programmes. It's hard to decide which is most important when choosing a product, but here are some of the better known.

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1 June 2015

Fire Ratings: Surface Linings

As an architect or designer you will often need to prove that proposed structures meet a number of fire safety standards including the mandatory provisions of the New Zealand Building Code fire safety clauses.

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12 August 2014

Painting Pre-Primed Weatherboards

Wood has long been a popular choice for building. A sustainable and attractive natural product, it is enjoying a resurgence in popularity.

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15 July 2012

Lead: How to Test for and Treat Lead-Based Paint

In our work with painting and building contractors working on Christchurch repair work, the issue of lead paint has arisen many times.

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20 April 2012

Getting Colour Right (When There Are 5,000 to Choose From!)

Paint companies provide consumers and specifiers with a number of different tools to help with colour selection.

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5 April 2012

Understanding Opacity and the "Hiding Power" of Paints

One of the functions of paint is to obliterate whatever you are painting, whether it be old patterned wallpaper, stains, or the unloved colour of a previous tenant.

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30 January 2012

Paint and Waterways Pollution

Some people do not realise that storm water drains (the ones on the road edge) go straight to local waterways or the ocean.

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24 January 2012

Greenwash in the Paint Industry

In 2008 the New Zealand Commerce Commission issued a press release on "greenwashing".

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1 August 2011

VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and Paint

Over the past few years the paint industry has been working to reduce the level of VOCs in paint products. 

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