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IRON RUBBED™ OIL
Varnish Effect Iron Rubbed™ Oil
IRON RUBBED™ OIL captures the authenticity of hot-rolled iron, transforming it into a finish with a strong industrial and architectural character. Its nuances, material irregularities, and natural chromatic variations reproduce the look of real mill scale iron, delivering all the expressive power of the material without the typical limitations of raw metal.
Developed by Molteni Vernici's Research and Development Center, IRON RUBBED™ OIL allows for achieving the aesthetic of raw mill-scale iron on a wide range of substrates, eliminating issues such as high weight, complex mechanical processing, welding, uncontrolled oxidation, and the release of ferrous dust. The result is a textured, contemporary, and highly versatile surface, designed to meet the demands of high-level architecture and design.
Designed for the world of interior and outdoor design, high-end furniture, luxury retail, hospitality, contract, marine, and architecture, IRON RUBBED™ OIL enhances boutiques, flagship stores, hotels, resorts, showrooms, contemporary lofts, villas, restaurants, corporate spaces, and exclusive residences. It is ideal for doors, decorative panels, boiserie, feature walls, receptions, counters, custom furniture, tables, bookshelves, stairs, elevators, cladding, and architectural details where the material becomes the protagonist of the project.
The particular surface construction faithfully reproduces the nuances and chromatic variations typical of industrial rolled iron, offering an extremely realistic effect that is perfectly controlled and stable over time. The result is a finish capable of interacting with concrete, stone, wood, glass, and metals, integrating perfectly into the language of contemporary architecture.
Applicable, using the specific Molteni Vernici primers and cycles, on iron, steel, stainless steel, galvanized iron, brass, bronze, aluminum, zamak, plastics, ABS, polycarbonate, polyamide, polyurethane, fiberglass, carbon fiber, MDF, wood, stone, composite materials, and numerous other substrates, IRON RUBBED™ OIL offers maximum design freedom while maintaining the same aesthetic identity across different materials.
IRON RUBBED™ OIL can be used both indoors and outdoors with specific application cycles. It is also used on window frames, architectural facades, metal cladding, pergolas, ventilated facades, high-end outdoor furniture, hotels, resorts, yacht clubs, and projects intended for environments exposed to atmospheric agents.
Through specific protective cycles, IRON RUBBED™ OIL offers high performance in terms of resistance to wear, scratches, atmospheric agents, UV rays, salt spray, chemical agents, and detergents. Unlike real raw iron, the surface does not release iron oxide dust, ensuring greater cleanliness, stability, and practicality of use.
With IRON RUBBED™ OIL, Molteni Vernici brings the authentic charm of industrial iron into the world of architecture and design, offering an exclusive finish that combines the expressive power of the material with the performance required by contemporary projects.
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How to create the IRON RUBBED OIL™ Finish by Molteni Vernici
EXTREMELY FRESH IN ITS SIMPLICITY
Extremely fresh in its simplicity, the fresh Iron Rubbed™ Oil finishing becomes part of the Materici™ series. Increasingly requested by internationally renowned architects, designers and artists, the industrial style comes to life in the new material finish Ferro Calamina™.
Conceived by CRS Molteni Vernici as part of the new special paints and used to reproduce the aesthetic effect of natural iron, it amazes and enchants thanks to its material "imperfections".
HISTORY OF MATERIAL
Calamine, or machining scale or black oxide, is one of the most noticeable effects in metalworking processes.
To explain in a simple and clear way what calamine is, however, we must start by explaining what it is from a chemical point of view, why it is formed and what processes can be applied to eliminate it from steel and semi-finished products.
First of all, it must be said that by calamine we mean the oxide that is formed while hot steel products, such as pipes or plates, are processed. During a process of cutting a sheet, for example, from the interactions between hot steel and air triggered by temperatures of about 1200°C, this combination of ferrous oxide, magnetite and hematite is formed precisely to protect the material itself.
From this point of view, to the question “what is calamine?” one would have to answer that it is a simple protection of the object itself, which develops naturally at high temperatures.
However, for the purpose of using one of these products, it must be borne in mind that the part covered with calamine is relatively weaker because it is more subject to infiltration of humidity and water: for this reason, there are several descaling machines, used to eliminate it and thus maintain the object as solid and long-lasting as possible over time.
THE EMOTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL STYLE
The creation of a brand-new icon like Iron Rubbed™ Oil goes through one the most important characteristics about our Country: craftsmanship, which transforms the new finishing developed by Molteni Vernici into a real must.
Created to satisfy all the aesthetic requests - commercial and residential orders, private villas, shops, furnishing accessories, coating, facades - this new special paint is extremely capable of avoiding the problems of using real raw iron - weight, welding, oxidation, release of oxide dust.
