Solvents play a major role in a paint shop both as a flushing cleaning media and as a paint thinner. Paint purge flushing media are used clean paint-carrying lines, spray bells, high-speed rotary atomizers, storage tanks, spray guns, robots with atomizer bells during line colour changes or before starting the operations. Thinners are used for the adjustment of paint viscosity. There are plenty of low-cost solvents which are used to do either or both the task in paint shops. With growing EHS awareness amongst paint shop managers, such solvents are going out of favour because of VOC (volatile organic compounds) content and their hazardous nature.

Environment-friendly, productive efficient thinner and purge (flushing solvent) is the need of the hour. Kluthe is one of the largest independent producers of special paint thinners, purging and cleaning thinners. And it has extensive experience with a wide variety of coating systems, application techniques and areas of application. The VOC-FREE AND OPTIMIZED TECHNOLOGY based HAKU® and NIKUTEX® products have been developed by Kluthe for the protection of people and the environment. These paint shop solvents are beneficial in terms of processing or consumption and can be used for solvent-based 1 or 2 component coating systems & can be tailored for a specific customer need or specific paint. Most importantly, all these products comply with the latest global safety requirements.