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.

easy-wet™ 300

easy-wet™ 300 by Ashland is an oligomeric alkyl polyether polyol, tunable, silicone & APEO-free, multifunctional nonionic substrate wetting agent with low foaming properties. It is cost-effective surfactant with excellent wetting and flow behavior.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li>It exhibits a good balance of low static and dynamic surface tension and helps to minimize defects in coating such as cratering and pin holing with no impact on gloss in coatings.</li> <li>It is a breakthrough technology designed to create defect-free film.</li> <li>It meets the biodegradability requirements based on OECD 302B protocols and has very low VOC.</li> <li>It can be formulated easily with other components in the coatings formulation without any compatibility issues.</li> <li>It is an excellent choice for difficult to wet applications.</li> <li>It provides good dispersion of pigments with no water sensitivity issues.</li> <li>It is compatible with a range of formulation additives.</li> <li>easy-wet™ 300 is suitable for use in printing inks and industrial/ specialty coating applications such as wood-, automotive OEM & repair-, plastic-, coil-, and metal- coatings.</li> <li>Recommended dosage level is 0.2-1.0% (on an as is basis) depending on the formulation.</li></ul>

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Natrosol™ 250 H

Natrosol™ 250 H by Ashland is a nonionic, water-soluble hydroxyethylcellulose. It provides very good color acceptance. It offers very good color development, and viscosity retention on tinting. Natrosol™ 250 H is used in latex paints, paper coatings, latex emulsions, coatings, textile printing pastes and inks, surface coating for textile warp and finish sizing, glass fiber sizing and paper sizing.

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Drewplus® L-493

Drewplus® L-493 by Ashland is a foam control agent formulated from a blend of mineral oils, silica derivatives and surface-active agents, exhibiting excellent defoaming and antifoaming properties. Its applications include effectiveness in synthetic latex paints and coatings as well as water-reducible coatings for industrial applications and inks, and compatibility with a broad range of systems including acrylics, vinyl acrylics and polyvinyl acetate emulsions.

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