Coating ingredients for Solvent-Free / High-Solids Coatings

ETERKYD 4901-B-72 distributed by DKSH is an adhesion promoter for industrial coatings. It is used mainly in baking paints and primers.

• It is formulated to meet air pollution regulations.
• It imparts excellent balance of hardness and flexibility.
• It produces high-gloss films with excellent color and color retention.
• ETERKYD 4901-B-72 is recommended for coil coatings, general industrial gloss bake enamels for spray, dip, or flow.
• It is suitable for high-solids, solvent-thinned coil coatings, can coatings and waterborne one-coat systems.
• This product is available in Canada and USA.

Borchi® OXY-Coat by Borchers (Milliken) is a high concentration, low-VOC, cobalt-free drier and metal-based catalyst. It improves drying activity, color performance, gloss and haze compared to cobalt-based driers in water- and solvent-based systems. It is suitable for high solids, composites and can be applied in multiple coats. It is based on a unique, patented and highly active iron complex.

• It offers improved adhesion in direct to metal applications.
• It extends the coatings season window by providing consistent curing performance in all weather conditions (hot or cold, dry or humid) for short, medium and long oil alkyd systems.
• It provides improved stain- and chemical resistance and lower gardner color numbers and can prevent wrinkles at higher film builds.
• It can be used in coatings for adverse weather conditions.
• It is recommended for all solvent-based coatings containing binders or resins that dry by oxidation including vegetable oils, epoxy esters and polybutadiene.
• Applications include wood flooring, architectural-, protective and marine coating.
• It is APEO-free, REACH and Proposition 65 compliant.
• The recommended dosage level of Borchi® OXY-Coat is 0.5-3%.

HALOX® 580 by ICL is a low-VOC, bio-based liquid corrosion inhibitor. It is cost-effective and provides improved adhesion, water resistance with synergistic benefits. It is non-flammable and shows good shelf stability.

• It offers minimal gloss impact and is perfect for eco-label compliant coatings.
• It is sustainable, clean labeled, heavy metal-free, APEO-free, HAPS-free and non-hazardous for shipping and transportation.
• It can be easily post added or added in the letdown stage.
• It is suitable for thin-film coatings, acrylic emulsions, epoxies, water reducible alkyds, polyurethanes, alkyds and urethane alkyds.
• HALOX® 580 is used for protection of waterborne clear coats, solvent-based, high solids, 100% solids paints, primer and direct-to-metal (DTM) coatings.
• Recommended dosage level is 0.5-3.0% based on total formula weight.

KUMANOX 3111F (MSP-3F) distributed by DKSH is a non-reactive diluent recommended for solvent-free and high solid coatings. It is a styrenated phenol. It imparts flexibility, water-, moisture-, blush-, UV-, abrasion resistance, hardness, self-leveling and adhesion.

• It provides drying time, long-lasting color stability against UV and heat by radical blocking technology.
• It is a high purity grade of KUMANOX 3111 (MSP-3).
• It is suitable for use in construction epoxy paints, protective-, maintenance-, marine- and decoupage coatings.
• Recommended dosage level is 10-20% based on the epoxy resin.
• KUMANOX 3111F (MSP-3F) has a shelf life of 12 months.
• It is available in Canada.

Borchi® Gol 0011 by Borchers (Milliken) is a 100% active, modified polysiloxane flow and air release agent for solvent-based and solvent-free coatings systems. It can reduce pigment floating and provides barrier properties to the cured film.

• It is suitable for high-build systems and can be used in combination with Borchi® Gol E2 in epoxies for enhanced flow and deaeration.
• It improves the surface properties of coatings and destroys air bubbles formed in the film during application.
• Borchi® Gol 0011 can be used in conjunction with suitable moisture scavengers to reduce the formation of carbon dioxide bubbles in polyurethane coatings.
• It is effective with all types of coating application methods.
• It is recommended for industrial flooring-, pipe- & storage tank coatings.
• The dosage is 0.5-3.0% of the total weight of the formulation depending upon the binder system and which property is being addressed.

Relca® PU-683 by DKSH is a water-based, solvent-free, anionic dispersion of an aliphatic polyester urethane. It exhibits excellent taber abrasion resistance, excellent water resistance, excellent hydrolysis resistance and high hardness.

• It is highly flexible and yields clear, glossy and flexible films.
• Relca® PU-683 is recommended for 1K & 2K flooring coatings, furniture & parquet coatings and general wood coatings applications.
• It is available in Canada.

YN-1828 distributed by DKSH is a medium viscosity liquid epoxy resin produced from bisphenol A and epichlorohydrin. It contains no diluents.

• It provides good pigment wetting and good resistance to filler settling and high level of mechanical and chemical resistance properties in the cured state.
• It is recommended for solvent-free and high-solid coatings.
• The shelf life of YN-1828 is 1 year.
• It is available in Australia, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia and Thailand.

HALOX® 680 by ICL is a VOC-free, non-flammable, smart release anticorrosive pigment which releases a heterocyclic organic corrosion inhibitor from an organic matrix that adsorbs on the metal surface and forms a protective film. It offers decreased cathodic delamination (undercutting) and improves cut edge protection.

• It is jet milled grade that provides increased intercoat coating adhesion and prevents osmotic blistering. It reduces cost by lowering zinc phosphate loading.
• It acts synergistically with other corrosion inhibitors such as zinc phosphate, Z-PLEX 111, SZP-391, HALOX® 430 and Zn-free phosphates.
• It can be formulated into solvent-based, high solid-, and powder coatings.
• It is suitable for solvent-based primers & DTM alkyds, acrylics, water-based epoxies and urethanes, high solids and 100% solids, semi-gloss paints and coil coatings.
• The dosage level of HALOX® 680 as a stand-alone corrosion inhibitor or as an adhesion promoter is 1-2% based on total formula weight (TFW).
• When used in synergy with standard zinc phosphate the loading level of the product is typically 0.5-4% on total formula weight (TFW).

THIXCIN® R by Elementis is a non-hygroscopic rheology modifier for organic systems based on non-polar solvents. It adds thixotropic body and controls viscosity. It controls liquid penetration into porous surfaces and sag without impairing flow.

• It improves degassing, flow and leveling.
• It reduces settling of pigments and extenders.
• It produces optimum leveling in paints.
• Possesses excellent package stability and has no adverse effect on durability and light-fastness.
• It is designed for applications like wood stains, alkyd-, solvent-free epoxy-, hammer finish- and radiator paints.
• THIXCIN® R is also used in textured paints, high build paints, gel coats and surfacers and powder coatings.
• Recommended dosage level is 0.2-0.8% by weight of the total formulation and in powder coating use level is 0.2-2%.
• It has shelf life of 4 years from the date of manufacture.

Borchi® Gol 1473 by Borchers (Milliken) is a VOC- & solvent-free flow and leveling agent. It is a 100% active polyether-modified polydimethylsiloxane. It is recommended for topcoats that are cured at room temperature and below 150°C. It is suitable for solvent- and water-based systems, as well as solvent-free systems.

• It provides improved surface smoothness by reducing orange peel and preventing formation of craters.
• It shows broad compatibility in various systems.
• It can be used in a wide variety of binders.
• The dosage level of Borchi® Gol 1473 is 0.05-0.50% of the total weight of the formulation depending upon the binder system.