Category Archives: Mixing Systems – EN

BW MIX

BW MIX – Advanced Tinting System for Metal and Wood Coatings

At KANSAI HELIOS Slovenija, we have developed BW MIX, a modern tinting system that enables precise and flexible color mixing for water-based metal and wood coatings. This innovative system ensures high quality, long-lasting protection of metal surfaces, and excellent aesthetic refinement, all while being environmentally friendly. The water-based wood coatings included in the BW MIX system enhance the natural beauty of wood and ensure long-term durability.
BW colorants are high quality pigment pastes specifically developed for precise and efficient tinting of waterborne products. Crafted form carefully selected pigments with exceptional coverage power, weather stability and environmentally friendly composition. With addition of transparent oxide pigments can be suitable for wood stains especially.
BW colorants are designed for optimal compatibility with various systems and are suitable for use in both automated dispensing equipment and manual weighing, providing flexibility to meet specific user requirements.

Advantages of the BW MIX System

High Precision and Repeatability – BW MIX allows consistent reproduction of color shades, ensuring uniform quality with every application.

Environmentally Friendly Technology – The use of water-based coatings and BW colorants reduces emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC), contributing to a healthier working environment.

Long-Lasting Protection – Coatings created with the BW MIX system offer exceptional resistance to corrosion, mechanical stress, and weather conditions.

Wide Range of Shades – With the help of BW colorants, we enable flexible tinting of coatings, providing broad specter of shades.

Comprehensive TINTING Package – In addition to the color system, we also offer all necessary dosing equipment, software support, and professional training for optimal use of the BW MIX system.

At HELIOS, we are committed to developing sustainable solutions that combine high quality and environmental care. With the BW MIX system, we offer a reliable, precise, and ecological solution for tinting metal coatings, contributing to a greener future.

UNIHEL PRO MIX

Modern System for Tinting Metal and Wood Coatings

UNIHEL PRO MIX is a premium system for tinting solvent-based coatings and is an upgrade of the Unihel system for industrial coatings of the KANSAI HELIOS group. It is designed for professional use and ensures universal application and long-lasting protection for both metal and wooden surfaces in various color shades.

Advantages of the UNIHEL PRO MIX system

High-quality UNIHEL PRO colorants – The base of the colorants is a universal binder and high-quality pigments, which ensure wide compatibility of different binder systems and maintain the desired properties of coatings.

Universal application – UNIHEL PRO colorants are suitable for different chemical compositions for primers, intermediate layers, topcoats, and single-layer systems, for both metal and wooden surfaces.

Environmental responsibility – UNIHEL PRO colorants have a low content of aromatic solvents and harmless pigments, reducing environmental impact and improving working conditions.

Accurate and fast color reproduction – rheologically and volumetrically regulated colorants are suitable for dispensers and ensure the accuracy and repeatability of tints across a wide spectrum of color shades, including effect shades.

UNIHEL PRO MIX is tailored to individual users and includes all the support necessary for effective tinting:

Advice and cooperation in purchasing dosing equipment
Installation of hardware and software equipment
Expert training in the use of the Unihel PRO system,
Tinting support in creating new color shades.

With the UNIHEL PRO MIX system, we provide a flexible, precise, and sustainable solution for tinting solvent-based coatings that meet even the most demanding industry needs.

For more information please visit: https://www.helios-metalcoatings.com

HG MIX

Modern tinting system HG MIX presents imagination without color borders. It complements a list of ready-made shades. The whole palette consists of thousands of color shades and can be accessible for majority of Helios brand top coats in all point-of-sales with adequate equipment together with computer technology.

HG MIX tinting system allows the preparation of chosen color shade based on numerous fan decks, such as INTERIOR COLUR COLLECTION, EXTERIOR COLOUR COLLECTION, Terra, Monicolor 720, NCS, RAL and others.

To get the desired color shade is simple. Just compare the sample of textile, wallpaper, flooring, ceramic, etc. with our color templates in the HG MIX point-of-sale. When the desired color shade is chosen, the paint will be prepared in corresponding quality and quantity.

COMPONENTS OF HG MIX TINTING SYSTEM

Helios offers integrated approach with main components being MIX bases, colorants, fan decks as well as TINTING program with color shades formulations, volumetric dispensers and shakers.
Helios bases and colorants (water borne as well as solvent borne) are a product of constant investment in research and development, with clear aim to fulfil even the most demanding customer needs in decorative segment.
Besides Helios semi-products we are carrying out the practical educations together with full service which includes setting up the mixing machine (dispenser and shaker) with calibration, yearly update of formulations and development of custom-made recipes.

1. COLORANTS

Colorants are stable, liquid pigment concentrates. Selection of colorants is carefully chosen in a way to cover the whole color space. Nowadays 95% of demands for specific color shades is covered with modern tinting systems.
Colorant system consists of 16 waterborne HG MIX ACRYLIC colorants and 8 solventborne HG MIX SOLVENT colorants. With the combination mentioned the waterborne as well as solventborne coatings are covered. For tinting of exterior products (fassade paints and malters) only colorants with inorganic pigments are used, because of its weather and light resistance.

!Transport and storage: Temperature must be between 5°C and 30°C.

!Shelf life: 2 years.

2. BASES

Decorative coating bases are being divided according to the substrate that needs the protection or/and coloration. The most well-known decorative coating brands in Helios group are:

TESSAROL – top coats for wood, metal and plastic
BELINKA, HELIOS BORI – wood stains
HELIOS SPEKTRA, COLOR – coatings for interior wall surface, facade paints, plasters

Base consists of all major components (binder, fillers, solvents, additives), which determine the properties of material (such as weather fastness, substrate adhesion). Reputability and accuracy of formulations are achieved by controlling the coloristic properties of bases.
In our base system dominate B1 (white base), B2 (semi white base) and B3 (transparent base); in some cases, also B4 (red base) and B5 (yellow base).

For more information please visit: https://www.helios-deco.com/en/