Matting Agents for Coatings and Inks

SYLOID® ED 30 distributed by DKSH is a synthetic amorphous silica. Acts as a matting agent. Exhibits high porosity and is easily dispersible. Due to its relatively fine particle size, it imparts excellent surface properties to the coating film.

• It is specially organically treated for excellent smoothness and efficiency.
• Suitable for solvent based wood coatings systems.
• It is used in furniture coatings, wood protective systems, wood stains, UV-curable acrylate systems and thin film coatings.
• It has a shelf life of 12 months.
• SYLOID® ED 30 is available in Europe.

SYLOID® 7000 distributed by DKSH is a wax treated, synthetic amorphous silica with special organic treatment. It acts as a matting agent. It exhibits high porosity, high matting effect, ease of dispersion, excellent film clarity and film smoothness.

• It offers excellent optical properties in wet paint and dried coating film.
• It is suitable for use in high quality water-borne and solvent-borne coatings for furniture, artificial and natural leather, automotive plastic parts, foils, laminates, and UV-curable acrylate systems.
• SYLOID® 7000 has a shelf life of 12 months.
• It is available in Asia and Europe.

Techpolymer™ EFC-208B by Sekisui Kasei can be used as a matting agent. Offers soft and smooth texture on coating surface. It is a crosslinked acrylic copolymer grade. It contains 50% biomass content and contributes in lowering the environmental loads. Its mean particle diameter is between 6.0-10.0 µm. Techpolymer™ EFC-208B is composed of polymer particles and can maintain the major properties as other Techpolymer™ lineup.

SYLOID® MX 307 distributed by DKSH is a synthetic amorphous silica. It is an organically treated high porosity silica matting agent of medium particle size. It provides excellent surface appearance combined with high film clarity.

• It exhibits high matting efficiency, outstanding suspension behavior and easy incorporation & dispersion properties.
• It is used in furniture-, wood-, coil-, wood protective-, general industrial- coatings and decorative & trade sale paints.
• It has a shelf life of 12 months.
• SYLOID® MX 307 is available in Europe.

SYLOID® C 809 distributed by DKSH is a high porosity, synthetic amorphous silica-based matting agent of medium particle size. It exhibits high matting effect, favorable gloss/ sheen ratio, outstanding incorporation and dispersion behavior and excellent overgrind resistance.

• It is suitable for use in coil coatings, general industrial coatings and decorative & trade sales paints.
• SYLOID® C 809 has a shelf life of 12 months.
• It is available in Europe.

SYLOID® C 803 distributed by DKSH is a high porosity, easily dispersible untreated amorphous silica-based matting agent. Due to its relatively fine particle size, it imparts excellent surface smoothness to the coating film.

• It is used for matting of thin film systems including artificial and natural leather coatings, thin film coatings for plastics and coatings for foils and laminations.
• SYLOID® C 803 has a shelf life of 12 months.
• It is available in Europe.

ACEMATT® OK 520 distributed by DKSH is a wax-treated, medium particle-sized precipitated silica-based matting agent. It exhibits high compatibility, high transparency and good chemical resistance. It offers good viscosity, smoothness/haptic and high sedimentation behavior. It has universal usage in nearlyall coating systems.

• It is suitable for waterborne-, solventborne-, 2-pack-, pigmented- and clear coatings as well as partly suitable for radiation curing coatings and high solids coatings.
• It finds application in car OEM-, wood-, general industrial- and plastic coatings.
• Recommended dosage level of 1.5-7.0% on total formulation.
• It has a shelf life of 24 months and is available only in Asia/Pacific regions.

CASAMID® 1416 by Thomas Swan acts as a gloss reducing curing agent and reactive matting agent. It is designed for use in interior coatings as well as black & dark shade epoxy- & hybrid powder coatings.

• It offers good flow and surface smoothness to the coatings.
• Epoxy coatings with gloss levels ranging from 5-15% and hybrid coatings with gloss levels ranging from 15-60% (or greater) can be easily formulated using CASAMID® 1416.
• The recommended dosage level is 8-12 phr.
• It has a shelf life of 12 months.

SYLOID® C 805 distributed by DKSH is a high porosity, synthetic amorphous silica-based matting agent of fine particle size. It exhibits high matting effect, outstanding incorporation & dispersion behavior and excellent overgrind resistance.

• It is suitable for use in coil coatings, general industrial coatings, decorative & trade sales paints and pigmented wood coatings.
• SYLOID® C 805 has a shelf life of 12 months.
• It is available in Europe.

SYLOID® ED 40 distributed by DKSH acts as a high porosity matting agent. It is an easily dispersible, synthetic amorphous silica. It imparts excellent surface properties to the coating film, due to its fine particle size.

• It is specially organically treated for excellent smoothness and efficiency.
• It is used in furniture coatings, wood coatings, decorative paints and wood protective systems, air drying and oven-dried industrial coatings and coil coatings.
• SYLOID® ED 40 has a shelf life of 12 months.
• It is available in Europe.