All that glitters…

Julie Voisin, Global Product Manager, Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings talks about the company’s latest colour offerings to help designers realise the dreams of owners

In 2016 Sherwin Williams introduced its fast-drying basecoat paint technology, known as the SKYscapes General Aviation Basecoat 855 series. As Julie Voisin, Global Product Manager, Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings, explained at the time, the company drew on demand for faster-drying paint in its automobile coatings division to create a new product for small, private jets.

The goal was to help paint shops shave days or even weeks off complex paint schemes for aircraft. In so doing the paint shop would find itself with more slots available to take on additional projects from customers and everyone would benefit.

This year, in 2018, Sherwin-Williams has introduced yet another breakthrough product in its clearcoat range, this time aimed at midrange sized jets.

Q: Julie, what can you tell us about this new product?

A: The introduction of our fast-drying product in 2016 gave us two main clearcoat product ranges for general aviation, a fast-drying product that was well suited to light jets and a slow drying, traditional product that was great for large aircraft like BBJs and ACJs. We saw a real need for an intermediate product, CM0855CC3 SKYscapes General Aviation Clearcoat, that would be more suited to painting larger airframes, with longer wet-edge times and great product buffing characteristics.

So, we saw a real market niche for an intermediate drying time clearcoat product that you apply after the basecoat, and which protects the aircraft. The introduction of this new range, which we plan on releasing this year, will add to the options available for paint shops.

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