Dispersants for Coatings and Inks

Ceridust® 3610 distributed by DKSH is a tough, micronized high density polyethylene wax. The narrow and fine particle size distribution provides an excellent rub resistance and a fast drying time in printing inks.

• It is a dispersing agent and degassing agent to prevent pinhole formation.
• It is recommended for polyolefin, like LLDPE, LDPE, MDPE, HDPE, etc and pasty inks.
• It improves slip properties and enhances scratch resistance in cured powder coatings.
• It also improves the color strength as well as the filter pressure value.
• It provides higher clarity and gloss levels when used in solvent-based coatings compared to standard polyethylene grades.
• It offers excellent water repellence properties in wood coatings.
• It can increase the output during extrusion process to improve the flow ability of the powder.
• Ceridust® 3610 has a shelf life of minimum two years and is available in Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.

Tallicin® K-9 by Pflaumer Brothers is a polymeric dispersant with multiple anchor groups that can be used to disperse inorganic and organic pigments. It improves pigment wetting, color development and storage stability. It is used in solvent-based coatings, industrial maintenance coatings, offset inks and powder coatings.

• It is effective in reducing viscosity for dispersions of both oxidized and non-oxidized carbon black.
• It allows the formulator to increase the pigment loading in the mill base, thus improving both efficiency and cost of production.
• Recommended dosage level is 2 and 20% based upon pigment weight if the surface area of the pigment is unknown.

NUOSPERSE® FA 196 by Elementis is an anionic, highly concentrated liquid pigment dispersing agent for carbon black and organic pigment. It is suitable for thermoplastic acrylic systems and as an auxiliary product to improve the action of universal tinting pastes in basic alkyd paints.

• It offers strong adsorption on a wide range of pigment surfaces, improves color development, gives good and fast dispersion, reduces rub-up and color float, improves compatibility of universal colorants.
• It enables the replacement of various more specific dispersants with just one product.
• NUOSPERSE® FA 196 is used for organic solvent-borne paint and ink systems including oxidatively drying systems and thermoplastic systems.
• It has a shelf life of 3 years from the date of manufacture.
• The recommended dosage level is 0.2-0.4% calculated on the total quantity of alkyd paint.

NUOSPERSE® FX 7600W by Elementis is a waterborne and organic solvent-free wetting and dispersing agent. It is an aqueous solution of surface-active substances and polymers containing multiple anchoring groups. It offers efficient viscosity reduction and outstanding color strength development in carbon black and organic pigments dispersions.

• It is sustainable and shows compatibility with most waterborne formulations.
• It exhibits high efficiency, improved pigment wetting and low foaming.
• It is easy to use and provides viscosity stability and long-term storage capacity.
• It is designed for water-borne inks, industrial coatings and pigment concentrates.
• Recommended usage level is 1-5% for binder resin containing and 5-20% for binder resin-free formulations.
• NUOSPERSE® FX 7600W has a shelf life of 2 years.

Ecodis™ P 90 distributed by DKSH is an ionic homopolymer dispersing agent for water-based systems. It is cost-effective, compatible, easy to handle, and ready to use. It is APEO-free, bacteria-resistant, heavy metal-free, and solvent-free.

• It ensures stable storage with antisettling, viscosity stability, syneresis resistance, and floating resistance.
• The resulting film exhibits excellent hiding power/opacity, chemical resistance, stain resistance, and transparency.
• It is suitable for fillers, organic and inorganic pigments.
• It is used in graphic arts, architectural, textile & leather coating and traffic paints.
• Recommended dosage level is 0.1-0.5% of active ingredients based on the total weight of the pigments and fillers.
• Ecodis™ P 90 has a shelf life of 1 year.
• It is available in Canada.

NUOSPERSE® FX 605 by Elementis is sodium salt of a polymeric carboxylic acid-based low-foaming pigment dispersing agent for aqueous systems. It counter-acts pigment flocculation in weak acid, neutral and strongly alkaline mediums. It provides long-term stability of the paint, best opacity, and low odor.

• It shows stability to hydrolysis and thus retains its activity even after extended storage of the coating system.
• It is suitable to various pigment types and fillers in aqueous mediums, such as titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate, talc, kaolin and modified clays.
• It possesses a deflocculating power and a stabilizing influence on the particles already milled and de-agglomerated.
• It reduces the viscosity of the pigment paste and required demand of defoamer.
• It is used for aqueous coatings, inks, no VOC paints and dispersion paint systems, e.g., systems based on acrylic-, polyvinyl acetate- and polymer dispersion types.
• NUOSPERSE® FX 605 has a shelf life of 2 years.

NUOSPERSE® FX 600 by Elementis is a highly effective pigment dispersing agent. It is a multi-functional polymer, free of organic solvents. It ensures a strong interaction with a wide range of pigments, owing to its multi-functional structure.

• It adsorbed strongly onto inorganic pigments such as titanium dioxide and iron oxides (yellow, red or black) but also onto organic pigments such as fast red, quindo magenta, phthalo blue and green.
• It exhibits optimized stabilization of pigments in aqueous systems.
• It is suitable for use with a wide variety of binders such as baked acrylic dispersions, air-drying alkyds, polyester-melamines, 2-pack epoxies, acrylates.
• It offers high gloss levels, optimal opacity, consistent quality, improved corrosion resistance.
• It provides improved pigment wetting resulting in shorter grind times and cost savings.
• NUOSPERSE® FX 600 is used for waterborne industrial coatings, protective coatings, gloss dispersion paints, colorants, printing inks, also used in pigment concentrates for tinting paints, leather finishes, textiles, plastics, inks, etc. Recommended dosage level as a pigment dispersant 0.5-2.0% for paint, 0.5-3.0% for printing ink and 1-15% for pigment concentrates.
• It has a shelf life of 3 years.

Terasperse® 2200 by Pflaumer Brothers acts as a dispersing agent for both organic and inorganic pigments for a wide variety of water-based systems, including urethanes, alkyds, acrylics, polyesters and epoxies. It offers excellent color and gloss stability on aging of dispersions, high pigment/binder ratios and a lower level of grinding resin that gives extra flexibility in formulating.

• It shows compatibility with a wide variety of resins including 2-component systems, water-reducible and water-based resins.
• Its well-balanced surface-active functionality provides an excellent combination of hydrophilic and hydrophobic attributes and optimizing the dispersion of almost all pigments and extenders, including such difficult-to disperse pigments as phthalo blue, phthalo green and carbon black.
• It reduces surface tension and produces effective, efficient pigment wetting characteristics.
• Recommended dosage level is 1% to 12% by total weight, depending on the pigments used and other surfactants and vehicles utilized.

Tallicin® K-8 by Pflaumer Brothers acts as a dispersing agent. It helps produce a high gloss effect as it eliminates bubbles and craters seen in dip tank applications. it is used to disperse inorganic and organic pigments in a variety of systems such as solvent-based coatings, inks, powder coatings.

• it improves pigment wetting, color development, and storage stability.
• Tallicin® K-8 allows the formulator to reduce the viscosity or increase the pigment loading in the mill base thus improving both efficiency and cost of production.
• it is used in industrial maintenance coatings, offset inks, and product finishes.
• Recommended dosage level is 2 and 20% based upon pigment weight if the surface area of the pigment is unknown.

ADDITOL® XL 6521 by allnex is a high molecular wetting and dispersing agent with cationic character for carbon black and organic pigments. It is suitable for solvent-borne, solvent-free and high solid systems such as high-quality car refinish, industrial lacquers, printing inks and pigment pastes. It reduces dispersing time, enhances gloss & leveling, prevents reflocculation of pigment particles and reduces viscosity of pigment pastes. It is suitable for radiation curing systems. The recommended dosage level of ADDITOL® XL 6521 is 10-50% on organic pigments and 50-80% on carbon black. The shelf life of this product is 730 days.