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June 27, 2018
By: Kerry Pianoforte
Editor, Coatings World
The June issue of Coatings World featured an interview with a number of key suppliers of performance-enhancing additives. These include: Mark Piggott, senior account manager, Arkema Coating Resins; Katie Fagan, marketing manager, Formulation Additives, BASF and Shiona Stewart, industry marketing manager-Transportation, Industrial, Furniture, and Floor Coatings, BASF; Brendan Cullinan, Brenntag North America ACES technology director; Dr. Guillaume Jaunky, head of TG Surface, BYK and Mark Heekeren, head of TS Surface, BYK; Dave Grabacki, president, keim additec surface USA; Scott A. Brown, global technical manager, Materials Performance and Protection, Lonza; John McAllister, global director of sales, Micro Powders Inc.; Joon Choo, vice president, Shamrock Technologies; Frank Cangelosi, Ph.D., vice president, marketing, Troy; and Scott VanRemortel, technical sales manager, Unimin. Part 2 of that interview discusses trends in the additives market: Arkema: Whether the application is water-based, solvent-based or high-solids, product designers are developing additives that allow easier incorporation, more efficient coating application, and consistent field performance. The legislation is pushing towards greener technologies with lower VOC contents. This trend comes along with specific challenges related to rheology, particularly for industrial coatings. Those paints present logically higher viscosity but also different drying profiles and are more difficult to spray. To control rheology is key to ensure coatings stability, ease of application and to ensure thickness control. It is why our additive department developed rheology modifier suitable for higher solid content (very high solid and solvent free. Crayvallac rheology modifiers can help to face up these challenges. However, they need an activation step to provide the rheological network that will bring the rheological benefits. This activation is performed by using heat and shear and is dependent on solvent type and content. Therefore we focused our efforts to develop additives that will be easier to activate in fewer solvents for those specific new coating systems. BASF: Reactive technologies are growing in interest, because the reactivity ensures that additives stay in the coating while offering synergistic effects, for incredible performance enhancement. For example, our new reactive dispersant crosslinks into the main resin matrix creating an additional binding force for the coating components. This leads to enhanced hardness, film durability, and protection for substrates while still delivering beautiful pigment dispersion…this is atypical for dispersants, where hardness and dispersing efficiency are often at odds with one another.
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