Zhang Xiaofan's idea should be that his own products were successfully developed, and then BMW also got in touch, so that they could hit it off.

However, by the time '08 was coming to an end.

Xiong Wenbin's phone call completely disrupted Zhang Xiaofan's fantasy plan.

When Zhang Xiaofan came to Fangnan Wheel, Xiong Wenbin was drinking tea.

Seeing Zhang Xiaofan walk into the office, Xiong Wenbin faced the chair opposite him, which made Zhang Xiaofan sit there, and then made Zhang Xiaofan a cup of tea.

"Is there anything good about being in such a hurry?"

"Hey, matte paint, can you do it?"

"This is naturally no problem, this is a very ordinary paint, what, can the wheel hub still use a matte head?"

Zhang Xiaofan is very strange, although matte paint is a very common powder coating, but the application of cars is still very rare.

"Didn't you tell me in a few months that you wanted to meet their top management?

After a long search, I got in touch with one of their designers. ”

Designer?

This Zhang Xiaofan is a little speechless, what we do is a car topcoat, is it any use to find a designer?

If you are a technical supervisor, it is not a big problem, but if you are a designer, it is a bigger problem.

And the biggest question is, why did Xiong Wenbing go to the designer?

"But in this case, aren't we developing automotive topcoats now, so we still hope that our powder coatings can be used in a larger and wider range of applications on automobiles.

BMW can be said to be a banner of the global automotive industry, if they use our powder coating, I think in the future we will be in the automotive industry, although it is not necessarily the only scorpion, but the advantage will be very great.

As long as their company uses our powder coatings, it can be shown from the front that our products can be applied to automotive surface coatings.

Of course, it is also very difficult, in fact, I am not very sure that I can convince them to use our products, so I can only say that I have given myself a chance.

But why look for a designer?"

Zhang Xiaofan confessed his doubts.

"Actually, it wasn't us looking for him, it was he looking for us. ”

This possibility is easier to understand, Zhang Xiaofan instantly thought of a possibility, and then Xiong Wenbin's words made Zhang Xiaofan confirm his words.

"Now they've designed a car, of course, a concept car, so they want the car wheels to be completely matte, matte, which happens to be our hub supplier.

So the designer approached our company, and I didn't know how to say yes at once.

So now it's up to you. ”

Zhang Xiaofan naturally knows Xiong Wenbin's worries, matte coatings are rarely applied to car wheels, and he does not have a mature experience, and he doesn't know what kind of problems will occur when this matte powder coating is applied to wheels?

According to the current market, basically all family cars use glossy surface paints.

In fact, the current car topcoats on the market are mostly metal flash series.

The exterior surface of a car coated with metallic paint not only makes the surface of the painted sheet metal look more shiny, but also changes the color and even the contour of the car at different angles due to the refraction of light. Making the exterior shape of the whole vehicle look richer and more layered, this is one of the reasons why "metallic paint" will become more and more common.

Metallic paint, also known as metallic glitter paint, is a popular automotive topcoat. Fine aluminum particles or pearlescent glitter pigments are added to its paint base, and after the light hits the aluminum particles, it is reflected by the aluminum particles through the air film.

As a result, it looks as if the metal is glittering. This kind of metallic glitter paint gives people a pleasant, brisk, and novel feeling, so now the application of this kind of glitter paint in automobiles is very common.

All of a sudden, BMW wanted to design a matte series of car topcoats.

Although the information given by Xiong Wenbin now only requires them to provide matte wheels.

But Zhang Xiaofan's bold guess is that BMW will also make a breakthrough in the car topcoat and make a matte topcoat.

Matte topcoats have a very big advantage over glossy topcoats.

Matte topcoats, if there is a slight scratch, scratches on the surface are difficult to observe.

Because the hardness of the matte topcoat is much greater than that of the glossy topcoat.

Therefore, it is generally difficult to scratch slightly, and it also forms marks on the surface of the matte paint.

Another point is that the mainstream communication in the current market is glossy paint, if a matte car surface paint suddenly appears, then the attraction to people should be very, very great.

And the matte paint itself, he has a light-absorbing ability, because it itself will reflect very little light, so it will attract people's eyes and make people notice it.

"It's no problem to make matte paint, what kind of color do you need?"

"They want to have several, blue, black, silver. ”

Blue and black don't worry about anything, he worries about silver.

It doesn't matter what color paint you have, whether it's glitter silver or mirror silver, he has a very big drawback.

The silver pigment of the tinted metal is actually aluminum.

Aluminum is a substance that is very easy to oxidize, so any aluminum product will have a very big disadvantage, that is, it is easy to blacken.

Therefore, silver paint will also inherit this shortcoming, and it will also be easy to blacken.

Of course, the blackening here does not mean that the whole thing will turn black, but that after using it for a long time, its color will be much darker than that of the new product.

"Blue and black, we were able to provide it right away.

I'll need to look into the silver one. ”

"Oh!

By the way, they demanded that all three colors have a metallic sheen. ”

Why did they make such a request? Zhang Xiaofan wondered if they were?

"They don't give a color reference either?"

"Oops, I almost forgot.

I'll get it for you, and they gave me a color card.

According to their meaning, as long as the three colors above the color card are reached, about 80% can be accepted, mainly depending on the sample. ”

It didn't take long for Zhang Xiaofan to take the card and look at it, and his whole heart finally let go.

This silver is not the silver he saw in Zhang Xiaofan's impression.

It is a kind of paint made of pearlescent pigments, which is close to silver.

Therefore, there is no need to use aluminum pigments, pearlescent pigments can be used completely.

Compared with aluminum raw materials, there is no problem with pearlescent pigments, he will not blacken, and the weather resistance, acid and alkali resistance, and heat resistance of pearlescent pigments are much better than those of aluminum raw materials.

It can be said that pearlescent pigments are a kind of "metal-like pigments" developed for our coating products to be used outdoors.