About Cardolite

Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Cardolite is the world's largest producer and developer of specialty chemical products originating from cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL). Cardolite’s coating additives, monomers, and resins exhibit good film appearance, weatherability, excellent yellowing resistance, gloss retention, very low viscosity, and good leveling properties. Cardolite has programs built around ISO 9001 and safety best practices to measure, control, and improve manufacturing capabilities from a quality and HSE perspective. Cardolite Corporation has a long-term commitment to the European market and strictly complies with its REACH regulations. Cardolite offers additives like crosslinking agents, adhesion promoters, solvents, wetting agents, catalysts, monomers like diols and polyols, and resins like epoxies, phenol formaldehydes, and natural variants.

Cardolite® NX-5198

Cardolite® NX-5198 by Cardolite is a phenalkamine that acts as a low viscosity, solvent and benzyl alcohol free epoxy curing agent designed for coating applications. <br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li>It exhibits excellent rapid cure properties even at low temperatures, good hardness, non-critical mix ratio, good wetting and leveling properties and adhesion on wet or otherwise unprepared surfaces. </li> <li>Cardolite® NX-5198 is ideal for applications requiring fast return to service. </li> <li>This product is used in coatings in broad application like anti-corrosive metal coatings, surface tolerant coatings over concrete or metal substrates, such as floors, tanks, secondary containment, pipes, and general marine structures. </li></ul>

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Cardolite® LITE 2002LP

Phenalkamine epoxy curing agent. Cardolite® LITE 2002LP by Cardolite acts as a solvent and benzyl alcohol free, very low viscosity, light color agent suitable for solvent free epoxy coating applications. It exhibits good balance between cure time and pot life, offers good durability, edge retention, and flexibility. Provides excellent rapid cure properties, even at low temperatures, and provide good adhesion on wet or otherwise unprepared surfaces. Possesses use for coating applications under cold and humid conditions, even over damp and poorly prepared surfaces. Cardolite® LITE 2002LP possesses longer potlife and slower cure. Applications include heavy duty industrial, protective, and marine service coatings and even primers, direct to metal mastics, mid-coats, tank linings, pipe coatings, and transportation primers.

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Cardolite® NX-5567

Phenalkamine. Cardolite® NX-5567 by Cardolite acts as a low viscosity epoxy curing agent designed for coating applications. It exhibits excellent rapid cure properties even at low temperatures, very good chemical resistance and non-critical mix ratio and adhesion on wet or otherwise unprepared surfaces. Moreover, it is ideal for applications requiring fast return to service or multiple coats in a single day. Recommended Use Level (EEW 190) is 35. Cardolite® NX-5567 is used in high solids or solvent free surface tolerant coating applications like chemical tank and pipe linings, marine, industrial, protective coatings and linings. Tank, pipe, secondary containment, and structural steel immersed or exposed to chemical environments can benefit from coatings based on this product.

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