About Ashland

Ashland, a global additives and specialty ingredients company was founded in 1924 with its headquarters located in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Ashland’s additives and pigments for paints and coatings offer unsurpassed hiding, superior leveling, flow, and consistency with every brush stroke. Ashland takes an inside-out view, working up and down their value chains to solve complex environmental challenges and ensure the operations are safer, more sustainable, use less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint. The products offered by Ashland are rheology modifiers, foam control agents, wetting and flow agents, and surface modifiers.

Strodex™ FT-428

Strodex™ FT-428 by Ashland is a neutralized surfactant based on a phosphate ester, designed to impart superior stability to latex paints, including both mechanical and freeze-thaw stability. <br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li> It has the ability—depending on formulation specifics—to function as a strong wetting agent and dispersant aid and to help reduce pigment flocculation. </li> <li>It does not contain any alkyl phenol ethoxylates (APEOs). </li> <li>It is used in latex paint formulations. </li></ul>

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DREWPLUS® Y-125

DREWPLUS® Y-125 by Ashland is a foam control agent formulated from a blend of mineral oils, hydrophobes and surface-active agents. It has effective control of entrained air. It is used in synthetic latex stripping and paint manufacturing.

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Aquaflow™ XLS-500

Aquaflow™ XLS-500 by Ashland is a hydrophobically modified polyether. It acts as a non-ionic associative rheology modifier. Is pH insensitive and biostable. It provides very efficient Stormer (KU) viscosity build and a unique rheology profile that delivers an unprecedented combination of leveling as well as sag resistance resulting in drip-free paint. It possesses exceptional viscosity retention on tinting, excellent gloss development and spatter resistance. It has been shown to be extremely effective when used in conjunction with a high-shear effective NSAT thickener such as Aquaflow™ XLS-500 for efficient ICI viscosity build, however, excellent compatibility has been demonstrated with all categories of synthetic associative thickeners and cellulose ethers.

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