Innovation
For people in KANSAI HELIOS innovation means doing things in a new, better way. Therefore innovations are not always presented to the markets as new products and services, but can be also found everywhere inside the group, in production and R&D facilities and within the processes. Though the innovations of products that answer to our customers’ needs are the ones that we are most proud of.
KANSAI HELIOS Group holds one of the best-equipped R&D laboratories in the world. That serves to our objective to design and develop new coatings and solutions, which represent the future of this industry. In our R&D departments, coatings are getting smarter, economical and endurable. Our developers are pushing the limits to create coatings that spare resources and energy and need les layers.
Every day, coatings get new features and advantages while protecting all sorts of materials against abrasion, high heat, electromagnetic radiation, insects, water, UV… However, we never forget that beside all this functionalities, coating always need to stay colourful and simply – beautiful.
Market-ready bio-based ACE coatings
The European Green Deal aims to achieve CO2 neutrality by 2050. For this goal, we cannot only do big changes, but also the small details in economy and everyday life are decisive. With this thought, our R&D specialists at KANSAI HELIOS didn’t want to invent totally new products, but took a look at our existing products in the ACE segment…
Worlds first Chromium-Free Electrostrip Coating for Grain-oriented Electrical Steel
Our R&D specialists at Rembrandtin developed the worlds first chromium-free grain-oriented (GO)coating: REMISOL EB 5320 shows very good electro-insulating properties. Furthermore, this environmentally friendly product provides a hydrolysis and corrosion resistance comparable to chromate containing solutions….
Sol-Gel Printing Inks for Digital Printing on Coil
Helios’s new sol-gel printing inks are the latest innovation in single-pass digital printing on coil. Patented by Helios Group worldwide, the environmentally friendly inks show good outdoor durability and excellent mechanical properties. Based on the same pigmentation as conventional coil coatings, they ensure good weather resistance and are used in many application fields, e.g., architecture…
Helios One, more than protective coating
Our R&D, sales and marketing departments demonstrated their excellent collaboration and achievements by designing innovative solution Helios One. Helios One, a new generation of single-layer coatings for the industrial protection of metals is a complete, innovative product, also unique because of the accompanying customer support and tools which ease the transition from double-layer to single-layer systems…
Epoxy Primer of the Future
Helios new water-thinnable two-part epoxy primer demonstrates a breakthrough innovation with its anti-corrosive, mechanical, and applicative features. The coating’s primary advantage is in its excellent protection against corrosion, lasting more than 1,500 hours in a salt and humidity chamber with no defects, as well as in its comparable thinness for an organic coat…
Setting the Standards – Protective Coating for Electronic Circuits
Helios coating for the protection of electronic circuits sets the industry standards. This coating is the result of R&D conducted as part of the European BONACO project, co-financed through public funds within the MNT-ERA.NET program. Even at this level of development, it was proclaimed a success, while the finished product is currently setting the bar in its segment…
