Panels & Furniture Asia July/August 2022

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT
Addressing quality
and processing problems
for coated wooden
doors and windows
Qvesarum, a design manufacturer of windows,
doors, orangeries, bathroom fittings, interior
and exterior furniture, and other carpentry of
interior building details and furnishings, aims
to improve their product quality as well as to
use healthier and environmentally friendly
waterborne coatings. Coating approximately
100 windows, 50 doors, four orangeries, and
20-30 bathroom or furniture items per month
with their former solvent-borne coating system,
they experienced moisture ingress into the
wood, especially at the end-grain, resulting in
cracks and flaking in the paint, poor adhesion,
as well as the inconsistency of colours.
Headquartered in Löberöd, Skåne, Sweden,
Qvesarum produces its products in Indonesia
and exports them to the Scandinavian region.
The company believes in craftsmanship and
professionalism; all products are constructed
with sustainability in mind, and the company
only uses materials that are healthy for both
houses and people. At the request of their
Swedish office, the Teknos South East Asia
team contacted Qvesarum Asia in Jepara,
Centra Java, Indonesia to offer its solutions and
services to help Qvesarum overcome product
quality and performance issues.
STRONGER, BETTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
With Qvesarum keen on moving away from
solvent-borne systems, the Teknos waterborne
portfolio of exterior industrial coatings was the
optimal fit. Teknos has now been supplying
exterior products to Qvesarum since 2020,
ranging from AQUAPRIMER 2907 wood
preservative, ANTISTAIN AQUA 2901 primer and
tannin blocker, AQUATOP 2600 as the topcoat
and TEKNOSEAL 4000 end-grain sealer.
Yanuar Yogaswara Maryono, exterior coating
expert and business development manager
for Indonesia, Teknos, explained the
recommended system: “The customer coats
pine, teak and mahogany destined for the
cool, wet climate of northern Europe, so our
solution had to include a preservative to protect
against wood discolouring fungi and meet
European wood durability standard EN599-1.
This is followed by a primer that prevents tannin
bleed and finished with a topcoat that is easy
to process and weather-resistant, that provides
reliable protection against ultraviolet (UV)
radiation, tinted in the RAL or NCS colour shade
according to their customer’s demand. Gloss
grades from 15-60 are also possible.”
Teknos also offers ready tinted colours made
from its production site and supplies the colours
ready-to-use to Qvesarum Indonesia for direct
application, without the hassle of mixing and
matching the colours themselves. The colour
pigment used in Teknos exterior products is also
designed for exterior use, thus allowing the final
product to perform with good weather resistance
and light fastness.
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