Brands in Paper & Pulp

OrelTech’s unique process allows printing and aerosol spraying of highly conductive platinum thin films, high surface area structures or non-connected nanoparticle islands. Printed layers undergo short development (curing) using plasma treatment resulting in a thin fine pure platinum structure. OrelTech inks in liquid form do not contain nanoparticles and are significantly environmentally friendlier than the alternatives on the market. Lack of nanoparticles also allows them to be much more cost-effective than other conductive inks.

STANDARD™ S Fast Colors create easy stir-in pigment dispersions that offer excellent value to manufacturers of water-based paints and inks.

Plurafac® grades are fatty alcohol alkoxylates. They are petrochemically sourced and are low-foaming nonionic surfactants. They consist of alkoxylated, predominantly unbranched fatty alcohols, and they contain higher alkene oxides alongside ethylene oxide. The fatty alcohol chains of some Plurafac® types terminate in an alkyl group. Their most important properties are wetting, low-foaming, or even defoaming. They are used in versatile chemical-technical applications to ensure a smooth process flow. BTC’s low-foaming surfactants are used in the paper & pulp industry or in the metal treatment industry, especially in metalworking fluids. Also in wood-based fiber production, textile pre-treatment, and coatings formulations.

HCR® is a proprietary, eco-friendly Modified Acid™ that minimizes the hazardous exposure levels, corrosion rates and negative HSE properties of commonly used acids while delivering excellent performance penetrating, solubilizing and removing scale. HCR® is a modified acid that provides superior performance to commodity acids for a wide range of water treatment and industrial cleaning and descaling applications.

Acronal® is a range water-based emulsions. Acronal® range for exterior paints covers styrene and pure acrylics which offer a very high durability against the influence of weathering. Acronal® range for wood and trim paints offer a very high durability against the influence of weathering. In addition, our styrene acrylics have an outstanding chemical resistance, which is very important for exterior applications. BTC’s range of Acronal® dispersions covers both selfcrosslinking and non selfcrosslinking dispersions. BTC’s range of Acronal® types give decorative foils, filters and wallpaper excellent mechanical properties. In air and oil filters for the automotive industry they improve durability and performance. In high-quality decorative paper foil, our binders ensure a high level of stability of the bonded fibers. To abrasives our binders ensure the abrasives flexibility and reduce abrasive particle wear. BTC’s Acronal® types for natural fibers are acrylic dispersions. BTC’s range of Acronal® types give nonwovens made of synthetic fibers their exceptional and different functional properties.

Hydropalat® from BTC types are used as wetting agents and surface modifiers. They provide a formulation with adequate wetting properties, enhance different component compatibility and/or improve the appearance of a coated surface in furniture & floorings coatings, automotive & industrial coatings, inks & printing applications.

Sokalan® range comprises dispersing agents that are used to eliminate or reduce the impact of water hardness ions during the application of the detergent or cleaning formulation. State-of-the-art laundry formulations consist of sodium polyacrylates, like our Sokalan® types.

MAKON® UD-Series of products are fast wetters due to their C11 branched carbon chain. They are faster wetters than nonylphenol ethoxylates (NP) and tridecyl alcohol ethoxylates (TDA). They also have good initial foam height with fast foam break, useful in applications like industrial clean-in-place and laundry.

Michem Dispersion Urethanes are water based polyurethane dispersions that can enhance toughness, scratch resistance, water resistance and flexibility of coatings. Michem Dispersion Urethanes are useful for industrial wood, concrete, and metal substrates.

IrisECO is our series of water-based high concentrated pigment dispersions for in-plant tinting. Developed for architectural paints, is used also in industrial paints, wood coatings and various other applications. Our colorants are binder-free, VOC-free, APE-free, formaldehyde-free and allow the final product to meet the most stringent health and environmental regulations. IrisECO colorants are produced based on strict quality specifications for perfect reproducibility of color strength, tone and rheology.

AT Inks, Xell™ Grade, an economical line of dye-sublimation inks, are medium density, water based inkjet inks designed for a wide range of wide format printers. The inks are designed to be printed on coated transfer paper. The image printed on transfer paper is transferred onto polyester fabrics and onto coated rigid substrates under heat and pressure.

VINNAPAS® is WACKER’s brand name for a versatile range of polymer-based dispersions, powders and resins that are used to improve the properties and performance of products in a wide range of industries. The portfolio has been continuously improved and optimized since the 1950s. Thus, VINNAPAS® products set the standard and are leading in many applications.

MagnaPearl® is a range of mica-based titanium-coated pigments that exhibit a high degree of whiteness combined with brilliance and hiding. They are available in a wide variety of particle sizes creating extraordinary optical effects ranging from a fine-grained luster to a bold silvery-white sparkle. MagnaPearl® effect pigments are pearlescent pigments that are specially engineered. They are available in a variety of particle sizes. BTC’s effect pigments find use in a wide field for the coloration of plastics. They are also suitable for a variety of other industries including the automotive industry as well as the agriculture, building & construction, electrical & electronics, packaging, and textiles & fibers industries. They find also applications in newly emerging markets.

WACKER’s PRIMIS® brand covers specialty high-value dispersions based on high-performance acrylate copolymers, as well as a range of high-value additives. PRIMIS® enables customers to develop products with unique properties that are otherwise difficult to achieve.

FluoroPel hydrophobic and oleophobic conformal coatings are perfluoroalkyl copolymers. Applications for FluoroPel include coating membranes, plastic laboratory devices, microfluidic devices, printed circuit boards, ball-grit arrays, MR heads, micro-motors, MEMS, and hard disk drive components. Fabrics, mesh, filters and membranes coated with FluoroPel retain air permeability, Rayl values and acoustic penetrance. Oleophobicity grade of up to 8 can also be achieved. FluoroPel is provided as a clear, low viscosity, low surface tension solution usually at 0.2% to 10% polymer in either fluoro or organic solvents. FluoroPel has also been formulated to prevent corrosion, sweat damage, tin whiskers and dendrites.

LIOSIL® is powerful, innovative and trailblazing. WACKER is bundling its Protect & Care, Surface Care and Tissue products under the brand name LIOSIL®. Applications for these products pose an extraordinarily wide range of challenges for everyday home care and cleaning.

Titanium dioxide pigment is a fine white powder. When used in paints, plastics or paper, it provides maximum whiteness and opacity. It gives paint high hiding power, meaning the ability to mask or hide a substrate. It does this more effectively than any other white pigment. Today, titanium dioxide pigment is the most important material used by the paints and plastics industry for whiteness and opacity. These unique properties are derived from the refractive index of titanium dioxide. The refractive index expresses the ability to bend and scatter light. Titanium dioxide has the highest refractive index of any material known greater even than diamond. To take advantage of this property, titanium dioxide must be mined, refined and ground to a fine, uniform particle size. Nature does not yield titanium dioxide in a form that is usable by our customers.

Superior Bio XP is a modern color-intense series designed for the widest possible field of applications. This series is suited for almost any type of printing machines (perfecting machines as well as straight printing presses). It is mineral oil and cobalt free and based on renewable raw materials.

Bacote® 20 series Stabilized Ammonium Zirconium Carbonate is a highly effective crosslinker. It crosslinks with all commonly used binders to improve the surface structures strength by reducing the amount of weakly bonded particles available on the paper surface. This certain characteristic is of value to coated papers and offset printing. As well Bacote 20 crosslinks instantly to the binder, offering a rapid cure time in the drying section of the paper process, it is compatible with practically all coating and press formulations.