Processing Aids

DISPERBYK® 2055 is a 100% wetting and dispersing additive designed for solventborne, solvent-free, and aqueous cost-sensitive formulations. It is compatible with a variety of polymers and resins, including acrylic-melamine, nitrocellulose, alkyds, alkyd-melamine, and polyurethanes (PU). This additive offers high molecular weight and viscosity, making it suitable for wood coatings and UV coatings. It improves dispersion and is effective as both a wetting agent and dispersant in solventborne and high-solids coatings, ensuring enhanced performance in a range of coating applications.

Duroct Manganese 12% is a drying agent used in solvent drying processes. It eliminates soot and improves fuel combustion, making it suitable for various industrial applications as a drying agent.

Cadox® L-50A is a liquid curing agent classified under peroxides. It is compliant with SARA 304, SARA 311/312, and SARA 302, and is not listed in California Proposition 65. It is listed in chemical inventories such as AICS (Australia), DSL (Canada), EINECS (EU), IECSC (China), ISHL (Japan), KECI (Korea), PICCS (Philippines), and TSCA (USA).

Omyacarb® 200 - PT is a natural calcium carbonate granule derived from high-purity white marble. It is used as a filler and pigment in joint fillers, plaster, and render applications. The product is white in color and available in suspension form. It is compatible with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and meets various certifications, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and FDA 21 CFR 174.5, 175.300, and 178.3297.

Speedcure DETX IN is a powder product in the Thioxanthones chemical family. It contains the chemical name 2,4-Diethyl-9H-thioxanthen-9-one and functions as a vulcanizing agent. It is certified under the Pennsylvania Worker and Community Right-to-Know Act (Act 159 of 1984) and SARA 311/312. It is listed in various chemical inventories, including DSL (Canada), ENCS (Japan), IECSC (China), ISHL (Japan), KECI (Korea), PICCS (Philippines), and TSCA (USA).

KahlResin 1218 Eco is a transparent, colorless, high-viscosity liquid blend with a high refractive index, compliant with CE Recommendation No° 14. It enhances gloss and viscosity in hair styling and color cosmetic products. With film-forming properties, it provides transfer resistance and long-lasting effects. Its flavorless and colorless nature makes it ideal for light-colored products and lip formulations.

Vikoflex® 7170 BULK epoxidized soybean oil provides efficient plasticization and co-stabilization for PVC flexible and semi-rigid compounds, thermoplastics, rubbers, and elastomers. It functions as an acid and mercaptan scavenger, viscosity modifier, and reactive diluent in epoxy, polyurethane, UV-curing resins, acrylic and PVA emulsions, solvent-borne alkyds, and polyesters. It is FDA-approved for specific food contact applications with limitations.

Titan® 200-LU is a white powder composed of limestone, belonging to the calcium and calcium compounds chemical family. It functions as a filler and pigment in industrial applications.

DISPERBYK® 103 is a wetting and dispersing additive specifically designed for solvent-borne matting agent pastes. It functions as both a dispersant and a wetting agent, ensuring smooth and efficient dispersion in solventborne coatings, including wood coatings. This additive is compatible with wood surfaces and enhances the performance of industrial additives like matting agents in coating formulations.

DISPERBYK® 2050 is a wetting and dispersing additive for solvent-borne coating applications and pigment concentrates. It is particularly suited for pigment pastes that do not contain binders.

DISPERBYK® 2117 is a solvent-free wetting and dispersing additive for solvent-borne and solvent-free pigment concentrates and printing inks with medium-polarity to polar systems. Its main use is to disperse carbon blacks and phthalocyanine pigments.

DISPERBYK® 2118 is a solvent-free wetting and dispersing additive for solventborne and solvent-free pigment concentrates, as well as printing inks. It is particularly effective for dispersing carbon blacks and phthalocyanine pigments, making it ideal for flexography, gravure, and solventborne inks. This additive reduces viscosity and functions as both a wetting agent and dispersant, enhancing dispersion and stability in ink formulations. DISPERBYK® 2118 is suitable for high-solids coatings and a variety of ink applications, offering improved performance in both solventborne and solvent-free systems.

BYK-327 is a silicone-containing surface additive for solvent-borne, solvent-free, radiation-curable, and aqueous systems. It improves leveling and provides a defoaming effect in floor coatings.

BYK-381 is a polyacrylate-based surface additive for aqueous coatings and adhesives. It enhances leveling and substrate wetting in waterborne coatings, adhesives, and radiation-curable printing inks and overprint varnishes. The additive offers improved substrate wetting, pinholeing resistance, and anti-cratering properties. It is suitable for waterborne inks, radiation-curable inks, and other aqueous systems, functioning as a surface modifier. It belongs to the polyacrylate chemical family.

Omyacarb® UF-FL 76% is a suspension product in the calcium and calcium compounds family, with limestone as its primary component. It is white in color and functions as both a filler and a pigment, enhancing the properties of industrial materials.