Products in Additives: Waterborne Coating

Tinuvin® 1130 is a liquid UV absorber belonging to the hydroxyphenyl benzotriazole class, specifically designed for industrial coating applications. Its high temperature and extraction resistance make it well-suited for industrial and automotive coatings. Due to its broad UV absorption spectrum, it efficiently protects light-sensitive substrates such as wood and plastics.

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.

Efka® PU 4080 is a versatile liquid formulation designed to serve as both an emulsifier and a dispersant. This product, specialized for use in CASE (coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers) ingredients, offers dual functionality. In a convenient liquid form, Efka® PU 4080 seamlessly integrates into industrial processes, ensuring optimal performance in both emulsification and dispersion.

Efka® SL 3288 is a slip and leveling agent that acts as a very effective slip additive, increasing surface smoothness and providing a 'soft-touch' effect. It improves leveling, scratch- and abrasion resistance, enhances anti-blocking characteristics, has minimal effects on intercoat adhesion and foam stabilization, improves the orientation of metallic pigments and matting agents, and prevents floating and flooding.

Efka® SL 3210 is a slip and leveling agent, a very effective additive to increase substrate wetting, slip, surface smoothness, and gloss. It has good compatibility with a broad range of printing ink systems and is relatively insensitive to pin-holing, even at high dosage. The chemical nature is organically modified polysiloxane.

Foamaster® MO 2136 serves as a defoamer, offering distinct features such as maximum plant uptake and optimum micronutrient availability. Foamaster® MO 2136 caters to various markets, including agriculture and feed, automotive and transportation, building and construction, and paints and coatings.

Efka® SL 3258 is a solvent-free, 100% active, polyether-modified polysiloxane serving as a non-reactive slip modifier, leveling agent, and substrate wetting agent for printing inks, paints, and coatings. Its chemical nature involves an organo-modified polysiloxane. It is suitable for UV, solvent-borne, and water-borne applications, achieving excellent surface tension reduction in UV systems, leading to an improved gloss level.

Hydropalat® WE 3106 functions as a wetting agent primarily used in waterborne coatings. It finds application across various sectors such as automotive, building and construction, consumer goods, and in the paints, coatings, printing, and packaging industries. It typically comes in liquid form.

Efka® PU 4055 is a liquid formulation designed for multiple functions as both an emulsifier and a dispersant. Tailored for use in CASE (coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers) ingredients, this versatile liquid solution offers dual capabilities. With its advanced technologies, Efka® PU 4055 is well-suited for applications in the automotive, transportation, and paints and coatings markets. In a convenient liquid form, this product seamlessly integrates into industrial processes, ensuring optimal performance in emulsification and dispersion.

Tinopal® SFP is a fluorescent optical brightener used in photographic color developer baths, adhesive compositions, or as fluorescent tracers. It exists as a light yellow powder and is recognized for its brilliant bluish whitening effects, anti-stain properties, and excellent solubility in water. Its end uses encompass varnishes and waterborne coatings, and it is known for its outstanding solubility and stain resistance.

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.

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.

Hydropalat® WE 3164 functions as a wetting agent primarily used in waterborne coatings. It finds application across various sectors such as automotive, building and construction, consumer goods, and in the paints, coatings, printing, and packaging industries. It typically comes in liquid form.

Tinuvin® 400-DW ECO is a high-durability light stabilizer and UV absorber belonging to the triazines chemical family. Specially designed for waterborne coatings, this liquid formulation ensures lasting protection against UV damage. Tinuvin® 400-DW ECO excels at preserving the integrity of coatings, offering reliability in challenging environmental conditions.

Efka® PL 5635 is a liquid formulation designed to function as a plasticizer. Tailored for compatibility with nitrocellulose, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and chlorinated rubbers, this versatile solution caters to various polymers and resins. Efka® PL 5635, in its liquid form, ensures ease of application. Notably, it features low viscosity, enhancing its usability in formulations for waterborne, solventborne, and solventless/high-solids coatings.

Tinuvin® 249-DW ECO is a UV absorber primarily designed for use in various coatings, including 2K and 1K coatings, specifically those in waterborne formulations. It offers attributes like outdoor durability and thermal resistance, providing protection against UV-induced degradation and enhancing the longevity of coatings. This product is available in a dispersion form for easy integration into coating formulations.

Rheovis® PE 1320 is a Newtonian rheology modifier tailored for aqueous coatings, specifically engineered to enhance high brush drag (ICI viscosity) in contemporary coatings. This product boasts excellent application hiding, superior flow and leveling properties, outstanding resistance characteristics, as well as excellent roller application and spatter resistance. It is presented in a yellow, clear liquid physical form and primarily finds its end uses in waterborne coatings.

Efka® PX 4780 is a liquid formulation designed to function as an emulsifier and dispersant. This versatile solution caters to diverse markets, including automotive and transportation, consumer goods, paints and coatings, and printing and packaging. In its liquid form, Efka® PX 4780 ensures easy and efficient application.

Foamaster® MO S120 serves as a defoamer, offering distinct features such as maximum plant uptake and optimum micronutrient availability. Foamaster® MO S120 caters to various markets, including agriculture and feed, automotive and transportation, building and construction, and paints and coatings.

Hydropalat® WE 3120 is a colorless, low-foaming liquid wetting agent designed for the printing inks and adhesives industry. It serves as an effective low-foaming wetting agent for emulsion paints and fountain solutions, showcasing excellent stability in both alkali and acidic environments, along with good water solubility. Recommended for use in formulating aqueous paints and printing inks, Hydropalat® WE 3120 also demonstrates proficient antifoam properties across various applications.

Hydropalat® WE 3182 functions as a wetting agent primarily used in waterborne coatings. It finds application across various sectors such as automotive, building and construction, consumer goods, and in the paints, coatings, printing, and packaging industries. It typically comes in liquid form.

FoamStar® SI 2299 is a highly effective deaerator and defoamer suitable for spray coating, brush, and roller applications. It excels in airless/air mix spraying, preventing microfoam efficiently. The product exhibits remarkable and persistent defoaming properties over time. Particularly well-suited for airless/air mix spraying, it also performs admirably in brush applications and, to some extent, in roller applications, effectively knocking down the foam and eliminating microfoam. Its outstanding long-term defoaming persistency ensures reliable performance

Efka® PL 5651 is a liquid formulation crafted to function as a high-performance plasticizer. Ideal for waterborne, solventborne, and solventless/high-solids coatings, this versatile solution enhances flexibility and performance. Efka® PL 5651, in its liquid form, ensures easy and efficient application. Noteworthy features include high gloss, flooding resistance, low viscosity, cost-effectiveness, high color strength, and high pigment loading.

Hydropalat® WE 3162, serving as a wetting agent, finds application in waterborne coatings such as automotive OEM coatings, marine coatings, architectural coatings, roof coatings, wood coatings, and finishes. With a liquid physical form, it enhances the performance of coatings.

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.

Efka® SL 3030 functions as a slip and leveling agent, universally compatible with various coating systems. It does not cause cratering even in high concentrations and offers benefits such as improved leveling, increased scratch and abrasion resistance, prevention of floating, improved antiblocking characteristics, and acts as a defoamer and de-aeration aid.

Hydropalat® WE 3910 functions as a wetting agent primarily used in waterborne coatings. It finds application across various sectors such as automotive, building and construction, consumer goods, and in the paints, coatings, printing, and packaging industries. It typically comes in solid form.

Hydropalat® WE 3165 functions as a wetting agent primarily used in waterborne coatings. It finds application across various sectors such as automotive, building and construction, consumer goods, and in the paints, coatings, printing, and packaging industries. It typically comes in liquid form.

Foamaster® NO 2331 is a defoamer derived from natural resources, ideal for emulsion polymerization, architectural paints, and adhesives, boasting extensive compliance with food contact regulations. This formulation, free from mineral oil, excels in suppressing foam during monomer stripping. It exhibits exceptional defoaming efficacy and maintains long-term efficiency in final applications. Specifically designed for manufacturing and applying emulsion paints, adhesives, functional coatings, and printing inks, Foamaster® NO 2331 comprises a blend of natural oil, hydrophobic elements, and non-ionic surfactants.

Hydropalat® WE 3912 functions as a wetting agent primarily used in waterborne coatings. It finds application across various sectors such as automotive, building and construction, consumer goods, and in the paints, coatings, printing, and packaging industries. It typically comes in liquid form.

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.

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.

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.

Laropal® A 81 P is a liquid product that functions as a binder and resin, as well as a grinding aid. It finds applications in the automotive and transportation industries, specifically in automotive OEM coatings.

Laropal® LR 9008 is a liquid product that functions as a binder and resin, and it also serves as a grinding aid. Recognized for good pigment wetting, it finds applications in automotive OEM coatings within the paints and coatings industry.

Hydropalat® WE 3197 is a versatile addition to waterborne coatings. Belonging to the alcohol ethoxylates chemical family, this formulation is compatible with epoxies (EP) and alkyds. Boasting low surface tension, alkali resistance, high gloss, improved substrate wetting, and acid resistance, Hydropalat® WE 3197 ensures exceptional performance. Tailored for waterborne coatings, it proves ideal for various applications.