Products in Dispersing & Wetting Additives: Leveling Agent

Efka® FL 3730 is a liquid solution renowned for its dual functionality as a wetting agent and leveling agent. Tailored for use in CASE (Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, and Elastomers) ingredients, this versatile product excels in various coating applications, including solventless and high-solids coating, solventborne coating, and waterborne coating. With its advanced technology, Efka® FL 3730 ensures optimal wetting and leveling performance. In a convenient liquid form, this product seamlessly integrates into industrial processes, making it an ideal choice for a range of coating needs.

Efka® FL 3930 is an innovative powder formulation designed to function as a wetting agent and leveling agent. Tailored for compatibility with polyurethanes (PU), epoxies (EP), and polyesters, this versatile powder ensures effective performance across various polymers and resins. Efka® FL 3930, in its powder form, offers convenience and ease of use.

Efka® SL 3299 is a slip and leveling agent, known for its highly effective slip additive properties. It enhances scratch and abrasion resistance, improves anti-blocking characteristics, and contributes to better leveling, surface smoothness, and gloss. Additionally, it prevents floating and cratering. Due to its excellent compatibility, Efka® SL 3299 is particularly suitable for use in high-gloss clear wood coatings. It improves the orientation of matting agents in matted wood finishes and is recommended for various solvent-based wood coatings.

Efka® SI 2723 acts as a defoamer, developed for the rapid de-aeration of solvent-free polyurethane and epoxy compounds. It yields excellent results in flooring applications, ensuring foam- and blister-free self-leveling coatings. Additionally, it acts as a leveling agent, contributing to a smooth coating surface, all while maintaining a low odor. Its chemical nature consists of a solution of defoaming substances containing silicone.

Efka® SL 3035 is a slip and leveling agent that improves leveling, increases slip and mar resistance, offers better compatibility compared to pure dimethylpolysiloxane, particularly in polar systems, prevents floating, and is resistant to hydrolysis. It can be used in both water- and solvent-based coatings, and due to its excellent compatibility, Efka® SL 3035 is particularly recommended for polyurethane and polyester wood coatings, helping prevent curtain rupture in curtain coating applications.

Efka® SL 3883 is a reactive slip and leveling agent. It offers improved slip, surface smoothness, increased anti-blocking effect, good substrate wetting, and even distribution of matting agents. The chemical nature involves a polysiloxane-modified polymer with unsaturated terminal groups. Reactive groups crosslink with coating and printing ink systems cured by photo initiators or peroxides. It finds applications in various coatings, especially wood and plastic coatings and paper finishes, cured by vinyl polymerization.

Efka® FL 3340 is a versatile product renowned for its role as a wetting agent and leveling agent in solventless and high-solids coating, solventborne coating, and waterborne coating applications. In its liquid form, this additive significantly boosts the performance of coatings across various formulations.

Efka® SL 3259 is a liquid formulation crafted to serve as a slip agent, wetting agent, and leveling agent. This versatile solution offers good compatibility and high gloss while enhancing substrate wetting and scratch resistance. In its liquid form, Efka® SL 3259 ensures ease of application. Ideal for waterborne, solventless/high solids, and solventborne coatings, it brings innovation to coatings by providing essential functions along with superior properties for substrate wetting, gloss, and scratch resistance.

Efka® WE 3110 is a liquid formulation designed to function as a wetting agent and leveling agent, specifically compatible with alkyds. Ideal for use in solventless/high solids, solventborne, and waterborne coatings, Efka® WE 3110, in its liquid form, ensures easy and efficient application.

Efka® SL 3239 is a dynamic liquid formulation designed to function as a defoamer, wetting agent, and leveling agent. Compatible with acrylics, polyesters, and alkyds, this versatile solution caters to various polymers and resins. Efka® SL 3239, in its liquid form, ensures easy and efficient application.

Efka® SL 3244 is a versatile liquid additive renowned for its functions as a wetting agent and leveling agent. Tailored for applications in solventless and high-solids coating, solventborne coating, and waterborne coating, Efka® SL 3244 enhances the overall performance of coatings.

Efka® SL 3033 is a highly effective additive that increases slip and surface smoothness. With excellent compatibility properties, it is suitable for use in clear coatings. It improves leveling, scratch and abrasion resistance, prevents floating, enhances anti-blocking characteristics, and prevents cratering.

Efka® FL 3778 is a multifunctional product known for its diverse capabilities in various applications. Classified within the chemical family of acrylics and acrylates, this formulation serves as a wetting agent, surface modifier, slip agent, leveling agent, dispersant, and defoamer. Its features include excellent mineral filler loading capability, slip properties, exceptional wetting behavior, and outstanding flow properties. These characteristics make Efka® FL 3778 a versatile and effective solution in applications where these attributes are critical for performance.

Efka® FL 3755, a liquid solution that excels as both a wetting agent and leveling agent. Tailored for use in CASE (Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, and Elastomers) Ingredients, this versatile product is designed for various coating applications, including solventless and high solids coating, solventborne coating, and waterborne coating. Efka® FL 3755 ensures optimal wetting and leveling performance. In a convenient liquid form, this product seamlessly integrates into industrial processes, making it an ideal choice for a range of coating needs.

Efka® FL 3740 EH is a high-performance liquid formulation serving as a wetting agent and leveling agent. With compatibility across alkyds, nitrocellulose, polyurethanes (PU), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), chlorinated rubbers, epoxies (EP), and acrylics, this versatile solution caters to various polymers and resins. Efka® FL 3740 EH, in its liquid form, ensures easy application. Noteworthy features include its effectiveness in preventing the anti-orange peel effect. Ideal for waterborne, solventless, high-solids, and solventborne coatings, Efka® FL 3740 EH sets a new standard for performance in diverse end uses.

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.

MERPOL® A is an alcohol phosphate that offers attributes such as low foam generation, effective wetting, and reliable emulsification. It serves a range of applications, including metal processing, composite handling, printing ink manufacturing, and coatings. Classified within the chemical group of alcohol phosphate esters, its functions encompass being a plastic anti-static agent, pigment dispersant, and textile lubricating agent.

T-Det® DOSS 70 PG is an excellent wetting agent and emulsifier, as well as a 70% active version of the sodium salt of dioctyl sulfosuccinate. With low VOC and a pourable consistency at room temperature, this product is ideal for use as a primary emulsifier in emulsion polymerization.

T-Det® DOSS 85 is an 85% active version of dioctyl sulfosuccinate, sodium salt that is solvent free, low VOC, pourable at room temperature, and an excellent wetting agent and emulsifier. It can be used as a wetting and leveling agent in adhesives, agriculture, detergent compounding, inks, metal, mining, paper, paint, petroleum, rubber, and textiles.

T-Det® DOSS 75 is a 75% active version of dioctyl sulfosuccinate, sodium salt. It can be used as a primary emulsifier in emulsion polymerization. T-Det® DOSS 75 can also be used as a wetting and leveling agent in the following applications: adhesives, agriculture, detergent compounding, inks, metal, mining, paper, paint, petroleum, rubber, and textiles. Other applications include use as a de-watering aid and mold-release agent.

AFCONA 3750 is a silicone-based leveling and anti-crater agent for aqueous coatings that does not impact inter-coating adhesion. It is a highly fluorocarbon-modified acrylic polymer with very low surface tension, allowing it to substitute and perform as silicones without the side effects of silicones.

AFCONA 3771 is a paint additive classified and labeled according to the CLP regulation. It is an acrylic-modified fluorocarbon, containing carboxylic acid groups to increase the polarity of the polymer, providing excellent compatibility with most common resins used in coatings.

AFCONA 3773 is a leveling and surface tension reduction agent for non-aqueous industrial coatings. It is an acrylic-modified fluorocarbon designed to provide anti-crater, substrate wetting, and leveling performance. Compared to AFCONA 3777, AFCONA 3773 has better compatibility and leveling performance. It offers a well-balanced combination of defoaming and leveling performance, making it an ideal choice for use as a universal leveling agent.

AFCONA 3670 is an anti-crater, substrate wetting and leveling agent for solvent-based coatings. AFCONA 3670 is an improved version of AFCONA 3777 on managing surface control of coatings. It has lower surface tension than AFCONA 3777. The combination with a suitable polysiloxane for better overall performance is highly recommended.

AFCONA 3777 is an anti-crater, substrate wetting and leveling agent for solvent-based coatings. It is the 1st generation of fluorocarbon modified polyacrylic. Recommended as non-silicone leveling agent where silicone is not permitted due to intercoat adhesion problems. However, we highly recommend a combination with a suitable polysiloxane for better overall performance.

AFCONA 3585 is a silicone-based leveling, substrate wetting and anti-crater agent for aqueous coatings that does not influence intercoat adhesion. It is an organically modified polysiloxane for aqueous systems. AFCONA 3585 offers very strong surface tension reduction and good compatibility performance.

AFCONA 3034 is an additive designed to reduce surface tension, improve substrate wetting, and provide anti-crater performance and leveling, including vertical leveling. Its fluorocarbon modification gives it a very low surface tension, further enhancing its performance in anti-crater properties, substrate wetting, and leveling.

AFCONA 3522 is an additive to improve the surface characteristics of waterbased coatings. It is a waterbased emulsion of an organically modified polysiloxane, with the active ingredient being a hydrophobic polymer that gives water resistance and slip performance to the coating after drying. This product also offers low foam stabilization. AFCONA 3522 is recommended for use in all types of waterbased coatings.

AFCONA 3772 is a leveling and surface tension reduction agent for aqueous and non-aqueous coatings. AFCONA 3772 is an acrylic modified fluorocarbon. It contains some carboxylic acid groups, which increase the polarity of the polymer to give good compatibility with most common resins used in coatings.

AFCONA 3700 is a wetting, leveling and flow control agent for solvent-free and solvent-based coatings with excellent anti-crater properties. AFCONA 3700 is a highly fluorocarbon modified polyacrylic polymer. It has very low surface tension and therefore it can substitute and perform as silicones without the side effects of silicones.

Afcona - 3585 is a silicone-based leveling, substrate wetting, and anti-crater agent for aqueous coatings that does not influence intercoat adhesion.

Afcona - 3593 is a leveling and substrate wetting agent for aqueous coatings and printing inks.

Afcona - 3588 is a silicone-based leveling, substrate wetting, and anti-crater agent for aqueous coatings and inks without affecting inter-coat adhesion.

Afcona - 3587 is a silicone-based leveling, substrate wetting, and anti-crater agent for aqueous coatings.

Afcona - 3700 is a wetting, leveling, and flow control agent for solvent-free and solvent-based coatings with excellent anti-crater properties.

Lansurf OA14 is a nonionic surfactant produced by the alkoxylation of ethylene oxide with oleic acid. This product has good compatibility with other nonionic, anionic, cationic and amphoteric surfactants. Lansurf OA14 finds application as a dispersing aid, antistatic agent and emulsifier for oils.