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How to know whether it is a cationic paint?

There are not too many companies willing to fully communicate they are using cationic technology. In most of the cases cationics are used only to complete their portfolio and are niche products. And this makes marketing does not spend a lot of resources communicating about. Probably one of the few doing some communication on cationics are the Swiss company Vernis Claessens with its brand Classidur (you can see their products in our section about paints).
Switzerland companies are quite weird in terms of communication,, as some of them disclose their recipes even in their website... amazing!

PigaPur IsoPrimer
Bosshard Farben

You can find here the Technical Data Sheet in German:
http://www.bosshard-farben.ch/content/download/307/2692/version/29/file/tm_d_PigaPur_Isoprimer.pdf

Then, here you are the Safety Data Sheet, also in German:
http://www.bosshard-farben.ch/content/download/307/2690/version/29/file/sdb_PigaPur+Isoprimer_51122-010000_DE_0800.pdf
You can see in that SDS, section 9, that pH is acidic, and this is a good indication that we have a cationic product.

Finally, you have the composition in the product declaration the company makes to the Swiss Union of Paint and Ink Manufacturers:
http://www.bosshard-farben.ch/content/download/307/2691/version/29/file/vslf_d_PigaPur_Isoprimer.pdf

23-24 % Acrylic dispersion
  4.70%  Ester
42-43 % Water
 18.00% Titanium dioxide
  0.50% Silicone additive
  0.95% Thickener
  1.00% Wetting agent
  0.25% Defoamer
  5.00% Kaolin
  1.60% Silice oxyde
and MIT:BIT 1:1 100 ppm

Ok, it's not exactly the recipe but you have a clue of what are they doing, isn't?

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