About Elementis

Elementis is a global specialty chemicals company, established in 1844 with headquarters located in East Windsor, New Jersey, USA. Their ideal additives, monomers, and pigments incorporate meaningful, functional, and protective elements that serve several segments like architectural paints and coatings, industrial maintenance & protective coatings, as well as products for wood, automotive & transportation, and printing inks. Elementis focuses on lowering the overall material footprint and reducing the amount of resources needed in their processes. Elementis' product range includes rheology modifiers, anti-foaming agents, dispersing agents, fillers, anti-blocking agents, wetting agents, waxes, scratch-resistance agents, and polyols.

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Bentone® 38

Bentone® 38 by Elementis is a highly efficient rheological modifier designed for use in low to intermediate polarity organic systems. It is an organic derivative of a hectorite clay.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li>It increases viscosity, controls sagging on vertical surfaces, and penetration on porous substrates.</li> <li>It improves flow and leveling, prevents pigment settling during storage and syneresis in thixotropic systems.</li> <li>It is suitable for aerosol paints, anti-corrosive paints, automotive finishes and primers, coil coating systems, industrial paints, trichloroethylene dip coatings, and wood stains.</li> <li>It is used in interior and exterior house paints.</li> <li>Recommended dosage level is 0.2-0.5% for house and industrial paints.</li> <li>Bentone® 38 has a shelf life of 4 years.</li></ul>

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BENTONE® EW

BENTONE® EW by Elementis acts as a rheological additive for water-borne paint systems. It is a highly beneficiated, easily dispersible powdered smectite clay. It provides thermostable aqueous phase viscosity control and thixotropy.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li>It enhances texturing & stippling effects and improves workability/application.</li> <li>It is easy to use and does not impair throwing power in electrostatic systems.</li> <li>It offers fast water release, emulsion stabilization, and good stability in electrostatic coating baths.</li> <li>It prevents hard settlement of pigments/fillers, reduces syneresis and minimizes floating/flooding of pigments.</li> <li>BENTONE® EW is used in corrosion-inhibitive primers, latex paints, electrodeposition coatings, foundry paints, paper coatings and polishes & cleaners.</li> <li>Recommended usage level is 0.1-1%.</li> <li>It has a shelf life of 4 years.</li></ul>

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THIXATROL® ST

THIXATROL® ST by Elementis acts as a rheological additive for use in aliphatic and aromatic solvent-based coatings. It is an organically modified castor oil derivative. It provides increased viscosity, thixotropy, pigment suspension and sag control. It improves the flow and leveling of powder coatings. It is suitable for chlorinated rubber- and decorative coatings, traffic- and anti-fouling paints.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li>It offers controlled penetration into porous substrates and imparts excellent package stability and reproducibility.</li> <li>It shows no adverse effect on paint durability and no influence on water-resistance of organic systems.</li> <li>It is non-yellowing in the final formulation and does not normally react with system components.</li> <li>THIXATROL® ST is used in epoxies, polyurethanes, varnishes, air dry industrial-, high build- and hammer finishes.</li> <li>The recommended dosage level is 0.2-0.8% by weight.</li> <li>It has a shelf life of 4 years.</li></ul>