Bioengineered Additives: A Pipeline of Value Delivering Unique Functionality to Your Coating

Specifically engineered, biobased additives possess many advantages when compared to conventional ingredients, including higher performance and a more environmentally friendly profile. In addition, they add novel functionality to coatings not possible with traditionally available additives, creating new opportunities for high performance formulations. The possibilities for creating value through the use of bioengineered ingredients is limited only by the imagination. Think of the functionality that you would like your coating to bring to a surface and chances are nature has already perfected a solution.

Biologically-derived additives offer a novel approach for functionalizing coatings and surfaces (see, "Formulating with Bioengineered Additives: Enhancing the Performance and Functionality of Paints and Coatings," Coatings World, March 2010). The blending of molecules isolated from nature with the synthetic environment of a coating represents a novel route for functionalizing coatings with unique properties. Biological catalysts (enzymes) have a variety of desirable characteristics, including catalytic specificity and efficiency, manufacturing sustainabili