
For over 40 years, finishes based on Kynar 500® PVDF resin have helped protect commercial, industrial, and residential buildings around the world. Kynar 500® is a special grade of PVDF resin used by licensed industrial paint manufacturers as the base resin in long-life coatings for aluminum, galvanized steel, and aluminized steel. Applications include metal roofing and siding, window and door frames, curtain wall and other miscellaneous metal trim and components.
Modern times have seen the rise of metal as a prime exterior material, largely due to its rugged durability, design versatility, and aesthetic possibilities. However, for all its bravado and beauty, metal tends to be superficially weak, and is generally available in but a single color. Thus, in order to be both functional and pleasing to the eye, metal must be coated with a unique finish which beautifies with color and resists any chalking, pitting, chipping, or premature aging.
Noted by architects around the world Kynar 500® PVDF resin-based coatings is precisely the product neccessary to provide such protection and preservation to aluminum, galvanized steel, and aluminized steel. No other coating system withstands the rigors of nature and time like those based on Kynar 500® resins. This high-performance fluoropolymer resin, with its extraordinary capability to retain color and gloss, keeps painted metal looking vibrant and appealing.
Architects are using metal in all kinds of new and bold ways. Why? One reason is the high-performance chemistry behind Kynar 500® PVDF resin-based finishes. This performance can be used in many diverse applications, allowing architects to design in colorful palettes without losing color and gloss. Components, extrusions and preformed shapes can be bent, crimped and twisted to maximize form and function in defiance of blistering sun, humidity, urban grime, acid rain, corrosive salt and abrasion.
In applications worldwide, Kynar 500® PVDF resin-based metal coatings have demonstrated superior performance and outstanding resistance to film degradation. These coatings will withstand extended exterior exposure to water, humidity, temperature, ultraviolet rays, oxygen and atmospheric pollutants.
These panels, exposed at an independent test-fence facility in Southern Florida, clearly demonstrate the superior weatherability of Kynar 500® PVDF resin-based coatings over other finishes. Note the lack of fading with the panels coated with Kynar 500 resin-based finishes.


