About Cardolite

Founded in 1984, Cardolite is the world's largest producer and developer of specialty chemical products originating from cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL), headquartered in Bristol, Pennsylvania. The product portfolio exhibits excellent adhesion to metals, composites, glass, plastics, construction materials, water, along with thermal shock resistance, increased flexibility, and surface tolerance. Cardolite offers innovative and sustainable solutions for the adhesives market and is constantly working on pollution prevention and reducing environmental impact. The additives and resins for the adhesive industry offered by Cardolite are crosslinking agents, reactive diluents, catalysts, polyurethanes, natural-based polymers, and epoxies.

Cardolite® NC-558

Cardolite® NC-558 is a low viscosity, solvent and benzyl alcohol free phenalkamine Epoxy curing agent. It has excellent rapid cure properties, even at low temperatures, offers very good chemical resistance, and provides excellent adhesion on wet or otherwise unprepared surfaces and green concrete. Cardolite® NC-558 offers excellent water resistance, thus, provide outstanding water proofing layer. Its fast cure and good hardness makes it ideal for applications requiring fast return to service. It is recommended for 2k epoxy adhesives as an epoxy hardener in industrial, construction, and offered for potable water adhesives.

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Cardolite® NC-513

Cardolite® NC-513 is a low viscosity, mono-functional epoxy reactive diluent by Cardolite. The long hydrophobic aliphatic side chain of cardanol gives this product a very low viscosity and provides excellent water resistance, flexibility, and thermal shock resistance. High viscosity solvent or solvent-free formulations can achieve enhanced workability and higher solids without sacrificing other performance properties using this product. Recommended use level for Cardolite® NC-513 is 2-20% of total resin weight. It is an excellent alternative to glycidyl ether diluents because of favorable health hazard labeling, hydrophobicity, and mechanical properties. Cardolite® NC-513 are used in 1K/2K epoxy adhesives including transportations, industrials and electronics sectors.

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Cardolite® NC-514

Cardolite® NC-514 is a diglycidyl ether epoxy resin. Cardolite® NC-514 provides excellent flexibility, outstanding water resistance, and increased bond strength on difficult substrates like wet or oily surface. Cardolite® NC-514 is considered bio-based alternative for Bis-A based epoxy resin. It is recommended for 1K/2K epoxy adhesives and sealants as a toughener. It is used in industrial, transportations, and electrical/electronic adhesives to provide toughness, flexibility and water resistance.

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