About Nippon Shokubai

Nippon Shokubai Co Ltd., established in 1941, is a global chemical company, headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Their additives and monomers help in achieving good weathering ability, pigment dispersion, color retention, high flexibility, and fast drying of paints and coatings. Nippon Shokubai promotes initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of its business operations, including tackling climate change and reducing waste through our product supply chains. The products supplied by Nippon Shokubai include acrylics and acrylic copolymers, acrylate/methacrylate monomers, adhesion promoters, crosslinking agents, and resins like vinyls, imides, and epoxies.

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EPOCROS™ WS-300

EPOCROS™ WS-300 by Nippon Shokubai is a VOC-free adhesion promoter and waterborne crosslinking agent based on acrylic, high oxazoline functionalized reactive copolymer. The new crosslinking technology enhances the reactivity between oxazoline groups and carboxy groups through a heating and mixing process involving EPOCROS™ WS and a carboxy group-containing emulsion with a specific neutralization rate.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li> It offers lower curing temperature, excellent storage stability, no peeling and long pot life for one packaging.</li> <li> It provides film properties, low toxicity, fast drying and improved water- & heat resistance.</li> <li> It shows excellent adhesion to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), oriented polypropylene (OPP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).</li> <li> It exhibits controllable appearance by glass transition temperature adjustment and crosslinking reaction at low temperature (80-120°C) with no by-product.</li> <li> It offers high reactivity and performance expression with even small addition.</li> <li> EPOCROS™ WS-300 is designed for coatings (metals, films, paper, plastics, leather), primer (film, plastics, building materials, automobiles, PVB inks), paints, inks and pigment printing.</li> <li> It is registered with CSCA(Japan) and TSCA(USA) regulations.</li></ul>

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EPOCROS™ WS-700

EPOCROS™ WS-700 by Nippon Shokubai is a VOC-free adhesion promoter and a waterborne crosslinker based on acrylic, high oxazoline functionalized reactive copolymer. The new crosslinking technology enhances the reactivity between oxazoline groups and carboxy groups through a heating and mixing process involving EPOCROS™ WS and a carboxy group-containing emulsion with a specific neutralization rate.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li> It offers lower curing temperature, excellent storage stability, no peeling and long pot life for one packaging.</li> <li> It provides film properties, low toxicity, fast drying and improved water- & heat resistance.</li> <li> EPOCROS™ WS-700 allows crosslinking reaction at low temperature (80-120°C) and without any by-product.</li> <li> It exhibits high reactivity and performance expression with even small addition.</li> <li> It offers excellent adhesion to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), oriented polypropylene (OPP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).</li> <li> Recommended for coatings (metals, films, paper, plastics, leather), primer (film, plastics, building materials, automobiles, PVB inks), paints, inks and pigment printing.</li> <li> It is registered with CSCA (Japan), TSCA (USA), REACH EU and IECSC (China) regulations.</li></ul>

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EPOCROS™ WS-500

EPOCROS™ WS-500 by Nippon Shokubai acts as a water soluble crosslinker and adhesion promoter. It is a standard acrylic-based oxazoline functionalized reactive copolymer. The new crosslinking technology enhances the reactivity between oxazoline groups and carboxy groups through a heating and mixing process involving EPOCROS™ WS and a carboxy group-containing emulsion with a specific neutralization rate.<br> <ul style="padding-left: 40px;"><li> It offers lower curing temperature, excellent storage stability, no peeling and long pot life for one packaging.</li> <li> It offers high reactivity and performance expression with even small addition.</li> <li> It exhibits crosslinking reaction at low temperature (80-120°C) with no by-product.</li> <li> It provides film properties, low toxicity, fast drying and improved water- & heat resistance.</li> <li> It shows excellent adhesion to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), oriented polypropylene (OPP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).</li> <li> EPOCROS™ WS-500 is used in coatings (metals, films, paper, plastics, leather), primer (film, plastics, building materials, automobiles, PVB inks), paints, inks and pigment printing.</li> <li> It is registered with CSCA (Japan), TSCA (USA), REACH EU and IECSC (China) regulations.</li></ul>