Products in Decorative Paints, Coatings & Stains

Tinuvin® 249 is a liquid non-basic hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS) formulated for coatings. Specifically designed to address challenges in solvent-based automotive, industrial, and decorative coatings where other HALS may fail due to basicity or compatibility issues. Key features and benefits include non-basic HALS composition, low viscosity, solvent-free nature, lack of interaction with acidic paint ingredients, high thermal stability, excellent color stability during shelf life, broad compatibility in solvent-based systems of varying polarity, non-exuding, and good long-term performance. Its chemical structure is a piperidine derivative.

Loxanol® CA 5336 is a newly developed, highly efficient coalescent based on renewable resources. It improves key performance properties such as minimum film forming temperature, odor, and emissions at lower dosages compared to other coalescents. It is recommended for use in architectural coatings, industrial coatings, construction and building products, and graphic arts and binders based on styrene acrylate, pure acrylic, and others.

Foamaster® MO NXZ is a liquid defoamer for emulsion paints and adhesive systems. Based on mineral oil, it is a blend of mineral oils and non-ionic surfactants. This defoamer is suitable for emulsion paints based on various polymers, including styrene-butadiene, acrylic, polyvinyl chloride, ethylene-vinyl acetate, vinylidene chloride, and water-soluble alkyds.

Tinuvin® 477 is a liquid, high-performance UV absorber designed for solvent-borne and liquid UV-curable coatings. Formulated with a red-shifted tris-resorcinol-triazine chromophore, it is well-suited for safeguarding UVA-sensitive substrates or ingredients. Key features and benefits include a hydroxyphenyl-triazine UV absorber with high extinction in the UV-A range, excellent photo-permanence, and minimal interaction with metal catalysts and amine crosslinkers.

Hydropalat® WE 3486 is a highly effective, concentrated wetting agent for aqueous formulations, providing strong reduction of surface tension, highly dynamic substrate wetting, ease of handling, and absence of flammable co-solvents. This wetting agent is particularly suitable for difficult-to-wet substrates such as plastics and metal surfaces, cellulose film, aluminum and plastic foils, silicone-treated papers, or glass.

Rheovis® HS 1169 is a rheology modifier. It is a highly efficient, hydrophobic modified acrylic thickener (HASE) with pronounced pseudoplastic (low-shear) flow behavior for many aqueous paint and coating systems. It is especially suited for interior paints, exterior paints, elastomeric coatings, textured finishes, and wood coatings for brush and spray applications. Rheovis® HS 1169 offers performance highlights such as outstanding thickening efficiency and pronounced pseudoplastic (low-shear) flow behavior.

Loxanol® MI 6840 is a highly concentrated aqueous dispersion of paraffin wax designed to increase the hydrophobicity of water-based exterior coatings. It is effective in enhancing the hydrophobic properties of water-based exterior coatings and textured finishes.

Tinuvin® 5248 is a liquid light stabilizer blend incorporating a triazine-based UV absorber and a basic hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS) for coatings, adhesives, and sealants. Formulated to address the high performance and durability needs of exterior solvent-based automotive, industrial, architectural, and decorative coatings, including energy-curable systems (UV, electron beam). Key features and benefits include high thermal stability and photo permanence, containing a basic multipurpose HALS, a UV absorber insensitive to metal ions and amines, preventing the formation of colored complexes, and a synergistic combination providing superior coating protection against gloss reduction, cracking, blistering, delamination, or color change, ensuring comprehensive substrate protection.

Foamaster® MO 2150 is an excellent defoamer for mid to high PVC decorative coatings, offering exceptional product stability and retaining antifoaming properties during paint storage. It is based on mineral oil and is a blend of foam-destroying substances.

Rheovis® PU 1214 is a polyurethane-based associative thickener, a non-ionic rheology additive for aqueous systems with low shear thinning. It is designed to improve the application and hiding properties of emulsion paints and adhesives, offering superior hiding power in brush application and minimal roller spatter. Additionally, it provides excellent flow-promoting properties, very good scrub and scuff resistances, and low shear thinning. Its chemical nature is a polyurethane polymer in water/butoxytriglycol.

FoamStar® SI 2213 is a defoamer recommended for clear and low-pigmented aqueous coatings and printing inks, particularly those based on polymeric dispersions. It is a blend of foam-destroying polymers, emulsifiers, and silicone. Developed to prevent foam in modern coatings like those based on finely dispersed acrylics, FoamStar® SI 2213 has minimal to no effect on the swelling of rubber stereos, inking rollers, or blankets in printing inks, ensuring excellent compatibility.

Foamaster® MO 2108 is a defoamer based on mineral oil, featuring a blend of low-aromatic mineral oil, hydrophobic silica, and fatty acid derivatives. It is suitable for most water-based paints, lacquers, and printing inks, presenting as an opaque, grayish liquid.

Tinuvin® 5100 is a liquid, non-basic aminoether (NOR) hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS), meticulously developed to impart high durability to exterior industrial and decorative coatings. Tailored for coatings requiring a low-basicity, non-interacting, and high-value stabilizer, Tinuvin® 5100 is designed based on amino-ether functionality. Its low basicity minimizes interactions with acidic paint components, such as curing catalysts. The high efficiency of Tinuvin® 5100 significantly enhances coating performance by reducing paint degradation that leads to issues like cracking, gloss reduction in clear coats, and chalking and fading in pigmented paints. Key features and benefits include being a liquid amino-ether (non-interacting) HALS, minimizing interaction with acidic materials like acid catalysts and acidic pigments, and improving coating resistance to cracking and loss of gloss by scavenging free radicals.

FoamStar® ED 2523 is an emulsion defoamer, a universal polymer-emulsion defoamer enhanced with a small amount of modified polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). It is an excellent defoamer for many flat to semi-gloss aqueous coatings, providing excellent foam suppression during grinding as well as application. It retains antifoam efficiency during extended storage of paint.

Tinuvin® 5050 is a solvent-free, liquid blend featuring a 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-benzotriazole UV absorber (UVA) and a basic hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS). This blend is meticulously designed to meet the demanding cost, performance, and durability requirements of exterior solvent-borne industrial and decorative coatings. Key features and benefits include a synergistic UVA/HALS combination for solvent-based systems, offering protection against cracking, loss of gloss, and color change. Tinuvin® 5050 is particularly recommended for non-acid-catalyzed systems.

Foamaster® NO 2335 is a defoamer based on renewable raw materials. It proves excellent for mat to satin-finished aqueous coatings, serving as an environmentally sound alternative to defoamers based on mineral oil. It retains antifoaming properties even after prolonged storage of the finished paint and offers exceptional product stability.

Foamaster® WO 2310 serves as a defoamer for paints and adhesives with broad food contact compliance. It is suitable for the manufacturing and application of emulsion paints and adhesives. Due to its broad food contact compliance, it is well-suited for processes and applications where such requirements are essential, such as emulsion polymerization and adhesive manufacturing.

Foamaster® MO 2114 is a defoamer based on mineral oil, a versatile defoamer for low- to highly pigmented emulsion paints. It eliminates microfoam even in critical applications, can be used in powder coatings, and modifies surface tension. It provides smooth, trouble-free film surfaces and improves gloss. The physical form is a clear, colorless liquid.

Hydropalat® WE 3966, a solid solution formulated with polyethylene glycols and polyglycols. As part of Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, and Elastomers (CASE) ingredients, it features low foaming properties. In a convenient solid form, Hydropalat® WE 3966 ensures ease of handling and integration into various formulations.

Foamaster® MO NDW is a defoamer based on mineral oil, known for its exceptional product stability. It retains defoaming efficiency even after months of storage, contributing to excellent brushability and avoiding fisheyes. Its chemical nature involves a blend of mineral oils and non-ionic surfactants, making it effective in all systems based on synthetic latex.

Loxanol® CA 5308 is a coalescing agent, highly efficient and based on dicarboxylic acids diisobutyl ester. It proves to be a highly efficient coalescing agent for various coatings, offering benefits such as no VOC, very low odor, and improved scrub resistance.

Hydropalat® WE 3485 is a liquid solution meticulously crafted for varnishes. As part of the anionic chemical family, it guarantees compatibility with cellulose and cellulosics. This formulation boasts low surface tension, good compatibility, improved color acceptance, substrate wetting, high gloss, and low foaming for optimal performance. In a convenient liquid form, Hydropalat® WE 3485 seamlessly integrates into varnish formulations, ensuring ease of use.

Foamaster® WO 2390 is a defoamer for styrene-butadiene latex, with a chemical nature of a silicone-free formulation based on white oil, alkyl poly(alkoxy esters), and ethers. It is a defoamer/antifoam for styrene-butadiene polymerization, specifically during monomer stripping. Foamaster® WO 2390 is silicone-free and does not have adverse secondary effects during latex application.

Loxanol® OT 5840 serves as an open-time prolonger, supplied in the form of an easy-to-incorporate emulsion. It prolongs the open time and reduces cracking in emulsion paints, organo-silicate, and silicone resin-based mortars and plasters. Loxanol® OT 5840 provides improved storage stability with low emulsifier content, and its chemical nature involves an aqueous emulsion of fatty alcohol.

Foamaster® MO 2134 is a highly effective liquid defoamer that can be added at any stage in emulsion paint manufacture. It is especially effective in fine-particle resin emulsions, easily dispersible in paint, and based on mineral oil, a blend of mineral oils and non-ionic surfactants.

Hydropalat® WE 3475 is a liquid solution tailored for varnishes. Belonging to the anionic chemical family, this formulation is compatible with cellulose and cellulosics. With features like low surface tension, good compatibility, improved color acceptance, substrate wetting, high gloss, and low foaming, Hydropalat® WE 3475 ensures optimal performance. In a convenient liquid form, this solution facilitates easy integration into your varnish formulations.

Loxanol® OT 5846 acts as an open-time prolonger, providing excellent open time for latex-based decorative masonry finishes. This pumpable additive is easy to handle and offers high effectiveness based on a linear fatty alcohol dispersion. It provides elastification, preventing cracks in plasters.

Joncryl® 8387 is a self-crosslinking, newer generation dispersion based on the rheology-controlled technology platform, tailor-made for exterior wood. Classified as an anionic dispersion, it is presented in liquid form. This product serves as a universal binder for exterior wood coatings in decorative and joinery applications, suitable for clear, semi-transparent, and opaque topcoats, as well as primers and impregnations. Joncryl® 8387 exhibits excellent blocking resistance, outstanding water and blushing resistance, and superior wet adhesion.

Acronal® S 813, a silanized aqueous dispersion of a styrene-acrylic copolymer, stands out for its premium quality and eco-friendly composition without formaldehyde and APEO. With an anionic dispersion type, it excels in applications such as premium architectural coatings, textured finishes, exterior insulation finishing systems (EIFS), premium interior paints, primers, special paints for tiles/bathrooms, and paste-like tile adhesives. The product offers exceptional adhesion on mineral substrates, including glazed tiles and glass, along with outstanding wet scrub resistance, excellent water resistance, high cohesion, very good dirt pick-up resistance, and reduced formation of snail trails. Acronal® S 813 is the ideal choice for professionals seeking top-tier performance in a variety of coating applications.

Nuclesil® 70 serves various markets, including building and construction, hi-care, industrial, and paint and coating applications. Its applications span across building and construction (decorative paints, building materials, plasters, and renders), decorative materials and finishes, hiandi care (home care surface care, institutional and industrial care), industrial cleaning, and power, water, and utilities (water treatment applicable processes, cement manufacturing). It finds utility in home care applications like cleaners and detergents, as well as in iandi cleaning applications and industrial additives. Its end use includes plasterboard, with a physical form available in liquid.

Hydropalat® WE 3488 is a liquid solution specially formulated for varnishes. This product, belonging to the anionics chemical family, is designed to excel in varnish applications. With a convenient liquid form, Hydropalat® WE 3488 ensures easy integration into your coating processes.

Loxanol® OT 5900 is an open-time prolonger in powder form. In powder-type masonry finishes and mortars reinforced with redispersible polymeric binders, Loxanol® OT 5900 interacts with the resin, providing extension of open time and workability, hydrophobization, fewer or no drying cracks, and plastification. The chemical nature involves an emulsion of oleochemical compounds on a silica carrier.

Joncryl® 8383 is a rheology-controlled (RC) aqueous dispersion of an acrylic self-crosslinking polymer. Classified as an anionic dispersion, it is presented in liquid form. This versatile product offers numerous advantages, serving as a 'workhorse' with broad formulation latitude. It provides an excellent balance of surface hardness, elasticity, and durability, coupled with superior water and blushing resistance. Joncryl® 8383 also exhibits good blocking resistance, strong interaction with associative thickeners, very good wet adhesion, and a clear film resistant to yellowing. 

Hydropalat® WE 3221 is a liquid solution crafted for both radiation-curable and waterborne coatings. As part of the silicone chemical family, this versatile formulation ensures optimal performance. With a convenient liquid form, Hydropalat® WE 3221 facilitates easy integration into your coating processes. Tailored for radiation-curable coatings and waterborne applications, it provides flexibility and efficiency for diverse end uses.

FoamStar® SI 2293 is an excellent defoamer designed for high-quality emulsion paints based on pure acrylates and acrylic copolymers. It is recommended for wood coatings based on acrylic and polyurethane emulsions applied by various methods. The defoamer is effective in emulsion and suspension polymerization during the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride, vinyl acetate, and acrylic emulsions.

Acronal® A 508 is an aqueous dispersion consisting of fine particles of a straight acrylic copolymer, characterized by medium viscosity, specifically designed for manufacturing water-based primers. It is an anionic dispersion available in liquid form, appearing white in color, with a faint odor.