About BASF

BASF established in 1865 and headquartered in Germany, is a global leader in the chemical industry and a leading paints and coatings ingredients supplier. BASF’s coating ingredients offer good consistency, high reactivity, exceptional quality, improved flow, and film formation. The company has set ambitious goals for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and increasing its use of renewable energy. BASF’s coatings products are certified by TSCA, REACH, and US FDA regulations. Their portfolio consists of additives like defoamers, flow agents, light stabilizers, dispersing agents, thickeners, and wetting agents, resins like acrylics & acrylic copolymers, polyurethanes, vinyls, aminos, and epoxies, and monomers like polyols, triols, acrylates, and methacrylates.

Efka® PL 4720

Efka® PL 4720 by BASF is a high molecular weight acrylic dispersing agent prepared using controlled free radical polymerization (CFRP) technology. It is designed to stabilize both treated and untreated silica-based matting agents. <br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li> It is an acrylic block copolymer with pigment-affinic groups. </li> <li>It supports the development of ultra-matte, solvent-free UV coating formulations. </li> <li>It enables strong viscosity reduction, high matting efficiency, broad resin compatibility, and improved formulation stability. </li> <li>It delivers excellent stabilization of silica-based matting agents, even at very high matting agent concentrations. </li> <li>It helps achieve ultra-matte performance with low viscosity and low gloss while maintaining stability and processability. </li> <li>It is designed for 100% solvent-free radiation-curing coating systems. </li> <li>Its typical applications include industrial coatings, furniture finishes, flooring finishes, and 3C coatings. </li> <li>Efka® PL 4720 has a recommended dosage of 5–10% active additive based on the matting agent. </li></ul>

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Hydropalat® 5040

Hydropalat® 5040 by BASF acts as a wetting and dispersing agent. It is a sodium polyacrylate in aqueous solution. It promotes total color development. It gives good compatibility with reactive pigments such as zinc oxide. It offers very good gloss retention. It provides high scrub resistance. It helps to optimize the dispersing process of pigments and fillers in aqueous systems like emulsion paints (matt to glossy) and pigment pastes. Its dosage level is 0.2-0.5 %. Hydropalat® 5040 has a shelf life of 2 years.

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Acronal® 700 L

Acronal® 700 L by BASF is a light and aging-resistant, soft butyl acrylate-vinyl isobutyl ether copolymer in ethyl acetate. Used alone to give sticky coatings of low strength or in combination with other binders as a plasticizer in many paints and coatings.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li>Provides high flexibility, adhesion to problem substrates such as aluminium alloy & brass and resistance to yellowing.</li> <li>Used particularly in combination with cellulose nitrate for paper and film lacquers, lacquers for aluminium foil, aluminium alloy, bronzing lacquers & paints for plastics and in combination with chlorine-containing binders in saponification-resistant coatings for various substrates such as metals, concrete and fibre-reinforced cement.</li> <li>Acronal® 700 L shows compatibility with cellulose nitrate, vinyl chloride polymers, polyvinyl ethers, polyacrylates, natural resins, rosin, plasticizers and castor oil.</li></ul>

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