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.

Aquaflow™ NLS-200

Aquaflow™ NLS-200 by Ashland is a rheology modifier, nonionic associative polymer solution. It provides superior flow and leveling. It offers good spatter resistance. Aquaflow™ NLS-200 is used in interior and exterior formulations.

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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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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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