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Ask the Expert Question-and-Answer Archive by Ron Joseph September, 2004 Certification for Paint Q. I am a chemistry student. I and my classmate made a paint by ourselves. We want to sell it on the market, but we don't know how to certify our product.
There are numerous paint laboratories that can perform quality control tests
and you can search for them on-line. You will need to speak to the director
of the lab to decide which tests you wish to have carried out; however, to perform
all of the important tests might cost several thousand dollars. Only after the
test results have been obtained can you think of taking the next step. Invariably,
some of the tests do not yield favorable results and you will need to modify
the formulation and test yet again. When all the results are favorable then
you will need to take the coating into the "field" and have some commercial
companies apply them to determine if the coating really does work. Only after
you have gone through all this work will you be ready to think about selling
it. Ron Joseph
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