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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Culminal™ MHEC 15000 PFR

Culminal™ MHEC 15000 PFR by Ashland is a water-soluble, non-ionic cellulose ether. It is used to give water retention in water-based paints and varnishes, to control rheology and consistency of water-based paints, to stabilize pigments and fillers, as a binding and viscosity control agent in enamels, as a thickener of printing inks, and in textile coatings. It can be used as a protective colloid, suspending agent, binder, and stabilizer. It offers good temperature stability and compatibility with many materials including surfactants and polymers such as CMC, starch, guar, and alginates. It is also used to control in-can consistency, flow and leveling, high shear viscosity, and storage stability of interior and exterior flat emulsion paints. Culminal™ MHEC 15000 PFR shows delayed solubility.

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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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