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set apart by the voteof leadingpaint companies. Awards
will alsobe presented to the best sevenpaint companies
inBrazil and toprofessionals in sixpersonalitycategories.
For the 18th edition of the awards, two new categories
have been added, one to suppliers (Tinting Systems – In-
dustrial Equipment), andone topersonalities (Personality
–Manufacturing). Thesurvey for thePaint&PinturaAwar-
ds commencedonDecember 26, 2013andwas completed
onApril 1st, 2014. Itwasauditedby the firmPremiumAudi-
tores Independentes,which tookcareof theentireprocess
of compiling, measuring and announcing the results.
Theawardpresentationwill takeplaceonMay9atEspaço
Vila dos Ipês, in São Paulo, and will include as a special
attraction a performance by singer Dom Paulinho Lima,
who was on the second season of the Globo network
television channel’s program “The Voice Brazil” andwon
over the studio audience, the jury and TV viewers all over
Brazil with his singing voice and style.
All of the survey data, such as winners, criteria, data by
size and by region, the full version of the survey, and
names of the companies andprofessionals nominatedby
our readers, are published here.
Thickeners - Performance, Cost-Benefit Ratio,
Sustainability
Responsible for thestabilityof fillersandpigments, thicke-
nersacton thebehaviorof coatings frompreparation
to application, ensuring such properties as anti-
-sagging, leveling, applicability, good flow, reduced
spatter and improved transfer, making outstanding
quality paints and coatings for themarketplace.
Of major importance in paints and coatings, thicke-
nersenable the formulationof differentiated, higher
value-added end products, while improving their
application properties. Thickeners have undergone
several changes over the past several years, which
eventually made them indispensable additives to
improvevarious coatingpropertiesbothwhile in the
can and during application.
Cellulose-derivedmodifiers, whichwere extensively
used and have been substantially replaced over the
years, are still employed by some manufacturers
because they are better suited for PVA paints and
perform superbly on putties and textured coatings.
Newer cellulose-derived products have low fiber
contents, resulting in improved washability. “Then
acrylic modifiers came up, which are themost used
todaydue to theirwidevarietyofapplicationsand the
possibilityofmodifying coatings rheology according
to market requirements, enabling improvements
in various respects and imparting more flexibility
to product development efforts. Along with acrylic
