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.

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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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-281

DREWPLUS® Y-281 by Ashland is a foam control agent formulated from a proprietary blend of mineral oils, silica derivatives and surface-active agents. It provides effectiveness in controlling foam during manufacturing and application processes. Its compatibility extends to most butadiene, styrene, acrylic, polyvinyl chloride and polyvinyl acetate systems. Its applications include trade sales paints, latex/rubber, industrial coatings and adhesives.

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