Products in Other Paints & Coatings Applications

STEPCOTE® W-133 proves to be an efficient wetting agent suited for waterborne coatings. Its integration can occur during the letdown phase of production or post-formulation. While its primary role is enhancing wetting properties, it holds the potential to favorably impact numerous critical coating attributes, including gloss, temperature stability, color acceptance, wet scrub resistance, hiding, and washability.

MAKON® P105 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer that exhibits good oil-in-water emulsification properties. It can be used in a variety of markets, including agriculture, industrial, and paints and coatings. Applications for best fit are agricultural pesticide formulations, dispersants, emulsifiers, and industrial cleaning.

STEPCOTE® W-839 stands as a powerful wetting agent meticulously designed for waterborne coatings. Its applicability extends to both the letdown phase of production and post-final formulation integration. While its core function revolves around optimizing wetting, it holds the potential to significantly influence key coating attributes, including gloss, high-temperature block resistance, color acceptance, and hiding properties.

G-3300 operates as an anionic surfactant with versatile applications. It is employed as a pigment dispersant in both water- and oil-based paints. Additionally, it serves as an effective wetting agent suitable for waterborne coatings. Its integration can take place during the letdown phase of production or through post-addition to the final formulation. The potential positive effects encompass gloss enhancement, improved color acceptance, and enhanced washability.

STEPCOTE® W-846 stands out as an exceptional wetting agent ideally suited for waterborne coatings. Its versatile application encompasses both the letdown phase of production and post-formulation addition. While its primary function revolves around enhancing wetting properties, its potential impact extends to multiple essential coating attributes. These include gloss improvement, mitigating foam formation, bolstering temperature stability, enhancing color acceptance, and optimizing hiding characteristics.

STEPCOTE® W-805 excels as a potent wetting agent designed for waterborne coatings. Its integration can occur during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after the final formulation. While its primary function revolves around optimizing wetting properties, its beneficial effects extend to several pivotal coating attributes. These encompass gloss enhancement, mitigating foam formation, bolstering temperature stability, augmenting color acceptance, improving wet scrub resistance, promoting hiding characteristics, and enhancing washability.

STEPSPERSE® 250 is a nonionic polymeric dispersant used for dispersing carbon black in waterborne systems. No wetting agents are necessary. Typical loading levels are 4-8% solids on the weight of pigment (mass of dispersant used/mass of pigment used x 100%). A ladder study is advised to determine optimal dosage levels.

STEPCOTE® W-821 serves as a high-performing wetting agent tailored for waterborne coatings. Its utility spans both the letdown phase of production and post-final formulation addition. While its primary role centers on wetting enhancement, it also holds the potential to impart favorable effects on crucial coating properties, encompassing gloss, color acceptance, wet scrub resistance, and hiding.

STEPSPERSE® 163P is an anionic polymeric dispersant suitable for iron oxide pigments in waterborne applications. No wetting agents are necessary. Typical loading levels are 2–4% solids on the weight of pigment (mass of dispersant used/mass of pigment used x 100%). A ladder study is advised to determine optimal dosage levels.

STEPCOTE® W-722 excels as a potent wetting agent designed for waterborne coatings. Its integration can occur during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after the final formulation. While its primary function revolves around optimizing wetting properties, its beneficial effects extend to several pivotal coating attributes. These encompass gloss enhancement, mitigating foam formation, bolstering temperature stability, augmenting color acceptance, improving wet scrub resistance, promoting hiding characteristics, and enhancing washability.

STEPCOTE® W-125 serves as a highly effective wetting agent suitable for utilization in waterborne coatings. It can be integrated either during the letdown phase of production or added after the final formulation. While its primary role is as a wetting agent, it might also exert a positive influence on various coating properties such as gloss, low foaming, and color acceptance.

STEPCOTE® W-888 emerges as a highly efficient wetting agent tailored for waterborne coatings. Its inclusion can occur during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after the final formulation. While its core role centers on optimizing wetting characteristics, it is also capable of exerting favorable effects on a range of critical coating properties. These encompass gloss enhancement, augmenting color acceptance, improving wet scrub resistance, promoting hiding characteristics, and bolstering corrosion resistance.

MAKON® DA-6 is a high-active nonionic surfactant that excels in emulsification, moderate foam generation, detergency, and excellent wetting properties. It has a broad spectrum of applications, including laundry, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, carpet cleaning, hand dishwashing, and institutional and industrial cleaning formulations. Importantly, makon da-6 aligns with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

STEPSPERSE® 160S is an anionic polymeric dispersant suitable for dispersing phthalo blue pigment systems in waterborne applications. No wetting agents are necessary. Typical loading levels are 10–15% solids on the weight of pigment (mass of dispersant used x mass of pigment used x 100%). A ladder study is advised to determine optimal dosage levels.

ZELEC® A130 can be used as a wetting agent in the paint and coating industries. In this application, it could also contribute to the improvement of corrosion resistance, gloss, color acceptance, wet scrub resistance, and the hiding power of the film. It can also be used as an antistatic agent in textile and leather finishing and processing and in rubber, plastic, and composite processing. It can also act as an emulsifier and corrosion inhibitor in metalworking fluid, printing pressrooms, and oil fields. It can also be used as a demolding agent in a construction area and in rubber, plastic, or composite processing. It also has lubrication properties for metalworking fluids and textile and leather finishing and processing, including extreme-pressure and anti-wear properties.

STEPCOTE® W-119 is an effective wetting agent for use in waterborne coatings. It can be incorporated during the letdown phase of production or added after the final formulation. Although it is primarily a wetting agent, it may positively impact the following coating properties: gloss, low foaming, color acceptance, hiding, and washability.

STEPCOTE® W-849 stands as a formidable wetting agent designed for waterborne coatings. Its incorporation can happen during the letdown phase of production or after final formulation. Despite its primary role being a wetting agent, its influence extends positively to crucial coating properties such as gloss, color acceptance, wet scrub resistance, hiding, corrosion resistance, and washability.

STEPCOTE® W-843 proves its efficacy as a highly capable wetting agent tailor-made for waterborne coatings. Its integration is versatile, being applicable both during the letdown phase of production and as an addition after final formulation. While its central role revolves around enhancing wetting characteristics, it carries the potential to exert a favorable influence on critical coating attributes. These encompass gloss enhancement, bolstering high-temperature block resistance, augmenting color acceptance, and contributing to the effective hiding of the coating.

STEPCOTE® W-806 excels as a potent wetting agent designed for waterborne coatings. Its integration can occur during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after the final formulation. While its primary function revolves around optimizing wetting properties, its beneficial effects extend to several pivotal coating attributes. These encompass gloss enhancement, mitigating foam formation, bolstering temperature stability, augmenting color acceptance, improving wet scrub resistance, promoting hiding characteristics, and enhancing washability.

STEPCOTE® W-877 proves its worth as an effective wetting agent engineered for waterborne coatings. Its inclusion can take place during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after final formulation. While its core role is enhancing wetting characteristics, it holds the potential to positively impact significant coating attributes, including gloss enhancement, bolstering high-temperature block resistance, optimizing color acceptance, augmenting wet scrub resistance, and improving hiding characteristics.

STEPCOTE® W-811 is a potent wetting agent specially designed for waterborne coatings. It offers versatility in its application, capable of being incorporated either during the letdown phase of production or added after the final formulation. While its core function lies in being a wetting agent, it has the potential to contribute positively to various essential coating properties, including gloss, color acceptance, wet scrub resistance, and hiding.

STEPCOTE® W-700 is another potent wetting agent tailored for waterborne coatings. It can be incorporated during the letdown phase of production or after final formulation. Despite its core function as a wetting agent, it possesses the potential to positively affect properties such as low foaming, color acceptance, and washability.

Deltech Vinyl Toluene (VT) is a mixture of methylstyrene isomers, with approximately 55% meta and 45% para isomer distribution. This reactive monomer readily polymerizes to form a high-clarity, colorless polymer with excellent electrical and physical properties. In many applications, VT demonstrates superior properties compared to styrene monomer.

StanChem Polymers SC 6044 is a high solids, medium hand, all acrylic and self-crosslinking emulsion. SC 6044 provides outstanding durability to washing and dry cleaning.

StanChem Polymers SC 6261 is a 100% acrylic copolymer emulsion designed for durable house and trim paints. Paints and coatings made with SC 6261, in addition to durability; also exhibit good wet adhesion, good dirt pick-up resistance and good gloss retention.

StanChem Polymers SC 5186 is general-purpose polyvinyl acetate. It deposits a clear, tough film, which exhibits excellent resistance to heat and light. It provides good adhesion to cellulose. Films of SC 5186 exhibit good blocking resistance.

StanChem Polymers SC 5174 is a vinyl/acrylic copolymer developed specifically as latex for interior and exterior paints and coatings. StanChem 5174 exhibits an excellent combination of flexibility and hardness. Intumescent and fire retardant paints produced with SC 5174 provide superior scrub resistance, durability and flexibility.

Deltech para-Methylstyrene (PMS) is recommended for evaluation as a replacement for vinyltoluene and styrene monomers. It shares similar chemical properties and polymerization behavior with both vinyltoluene and styrene. When used as a partial or complete replacement for styrene monomer in unsaturated polyester resin applications, polymerized resin products exhibit lower vapor pressure at any temperature and a higher flashpoint. Additionally, PMS offers advantages such as lower shrinkage during molding, improved thermal properties, and greater tensile strength in glass-filled applications.

StanChem Polymers SC 6016 is self-crosslinking acrylic emulsion when the polymer is cured at temperatures of 300 – 350 °F, depending on the time and temperature of cure. Added acid catalyst can increase the rate of cure.

StanChem Polymers SC 5184 is a vinyl /acrylic copolymer designed for use in interior architectural coatings demanding excellent scrub resistance and reliable pigment dispersions.

StanChem Polymers SC 6257 is emulsion polymer that can be used as a binder for a variety of coatings for different substrates. Coatings formulated with SC 6257 exhibit good clarity, water resistance, abrasion resistance and excellent adhesion properties.

StanChem Polymers SC 6477 is a highly efficient, alkali-swellable acrylic emulsion that is recommended for thickening synthetic emulsions. SC 6477 can be incorporated directly into a binder system. Thickening begins with the addition of ammonia, sodium hydroxide or an amine to raise the pH to 7.0-8.0 for maximum thickening.

StanChem Polymers SC 5218 is a surfactant stabilized vinyl/acrylic copolymer emulsion for paints and coatings. SC 5218 provides formulators with superior scrub resistance, durability and flexibility.

TEGO® Antifoam KS 53 is a self-emulsifying organic antifoam concentrate, free of APEOs, and based on food-grade vegetable oil It includes minor quantities of organo-modified siloxanes to enhance its efficiency. It functions as an anti-foaming agent and is well-suited for processes such as polymerization and suspension polymerization.

ZETASPERSE® 3800 dispersant is specifically designed to offer robust stabilization for pigments, fillers, and various solids within aqueous dispersions. This dispersant is based on a comb polymer with a moderate molecular weight, providing strong steric stabilization. Its versatile characteristics make it suitable for a wide array of formulation needs.

TEGO® Antifoam 2291 is a silicone-free, self-emulsifying antifoam concentrate without any silica. This APEO-free organic antifoam is designed for use as an anti-foaming agent in waterborne adhesive formulations, aligning with eco-friendly labeling claims. Categorized under CASE ingredients within foam control additives.