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August 15, 2011
By: Kerry Pianoforte
Editor, Coatings World
Aceto Corporation Port Washington, NY Tel: 516-627-6000 Fax: 516-627-6093 rgoodman@aceto.com www.aceto.com • UV/EB Raw Material and/or Equipment Offered: Aceto offers a full range of free-radical UV photoinitiators, including sulfonium-based cationic photoinitiators. BYK USA Inc. Wallingford, CT Tel: 203-265-2086 Fax: 203-284-9158 rich.edgar@altana.com www.byk.com • UV/EB Raw Material and/or Equipment Offered: Additives • Product Name: BYK-1791 BYK-1791 is an aromatic-free polymer defoamer for UV coatings and unsaturated polyester systems. BYK-1791 is mineral oil- and silicone-free. It can be used in solventborne and solvent-free coatings systems, especially UV coatings. It has a high transparency and has a low cratering tendency. • Product Name: DISPERBYK-2155 DISPERBYK-2155 is a wetting and dispersing additive for solventborne and solvent-free systems and pigment concentrates. DISPERBYK-2155 deflocculates pigments and stabilizes them through steric hindrance. It prevents a possible co-flocculation which leads to floating and flooding-free colors in pigment mixtures. Clearstone Technologies Inc. Minneapolis, MN Tel: 612-824-4846 Fax: 866-387-6558 rsahara@clearstonetech.com www.clearstonetech.com • UV/EB Raw Material and/or Equipment Offered: UV LED equipment for curing coatings, adhesives and inks. • Product Name: JL3-400H-100 The JL3-400H-100 is a UV LED light source for ink jet printing and spot curing. 12 Watts of light power at 400 nm from a 19×19 mm2 emission area in an air cured package. Double Bond Chemical Industries USA, Inc. W. Simsbury, CT Tel: 860-408-1216 Fax: 860-408-1216 Joseph-leon@dbc.com.tw www.double-bond-chem.com.tw • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Oligomers, monomers, photoinitiators, additives, antioxidants, UV absorbers, optical brighteners • Product Name: Doublemer, Doublecure, Doublecoat One of the most complete lines of UV/EB raw materials. Energy Sciences Inc. Wilmington, MA Tel: 978-694-9000 Fax: 978-694-9046 rsanders@ebeam.com www.ebeam.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: ESI is the world’s largest manufacturer of electron beam curing systems. Its EB systems include the EZCure family of EB curing systems. Evonik Goldschmidt Corporation Hopewell, VA Tel: 800-446-1809 Fax: 804-541-6290 frances.eggleston@evonik.com www.tego.us • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Additives and co-binders for UV/EB formulations • Product Name: TEGO Rad Series Crosslinkable siloxane-based surface control additive series to improve wetting, leveling, slip and release properties. Very broad usage in various areas like flexographic, offset and jet inks. • Product Name: TEGO Dispers 685 Liquid wetting and dispersing additive for energy curing formulations. TEGO Dispers 685 strongly reduces the viscosity. The increased color strength leads to improved coloristic characteristics and is highly suitable for UV flexo printing inks. Evonik Goldschmidt Corporation Hopewell, VA Tel: 804-451-8658 Fax: 804-541-2783 gary.freelin@evonik.com www.evonik.com/tego-rc • Product Name: Tego RC711 and Tego RC902 Evonik Goldschmidt Corporation offers two radiation technology systems for release applications that lower energy costs, significantly reduce production space requirements and provide fewer restrictions on materials, including those that are temperature sensitive. Evonik’s broad product line of Tego RC radiation curable silicone systems include acrylate and epoxy modified silicones. Hamamatsu Corporation Bridgewater, NJ Tel: 908-231-0960 Fax: 908-231-1539 usa@hamamatsu.com www.hamamatsu.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Hamamatsu is a leading manufacturer of devices for the generation and measurement of ultraviolet light. These devices include photodiodes, photomultiplier tubes, light sources, x-ray systems and image sensors. Hamamatsu offers mercury-xenon, xenon, xenon flash, and D2 lamps and LED light sources. • Product Name: Lightningcure LC-L5 The LC-L5 is an UV-LED light source that emits at 365nm or 385nm, with a uniform light level output throughout the LED’s long lifetime. The LC-L5 features low heat emission, low power consumption and a small footprint making it an economical choice over a bulb-type system for curing or drying. • Product Name: Lightningcure LC-L2 The LC-L2 is an UV-LED light source that emits at 365nm or 385nm, with high output power throughout the LED’s long lifetime. Other features of the LC-L2 include low heat emission, and a small footprint. It is easily controlled through various interfaces such as a RS232-C. ISP Corp. Wayne, NJ Tel: 973-628-4000 Fax: 973-628-4117 sedris@ispcorp.com www.ispcoatings.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: NVP – Monomers of N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone used in free radical systems; V-CAP reactive diluent (N-Vinyl-2-Caprolactam) used in free radical systems; Rapi-Cure reactive diluent (vinyl ethers) used in cationic, free radical, charge transfer and hybrid systems; Gafgard 233 monomers (mixture of vinyl and acrylate monomers; formulated with N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone (V-Pyrol/RC)) • Product Name: NVP Features strong solvent for polymers (epoxies and polyamides), acrylate monomer free, excellent toxicology profile, good adhesion on difficult substrates, low, but effective levels of vinyl ether, hydrophobicity. • Product Name: V-CAP Features electron-rich reactive double bond, pseudo-cationic, adhesiveness and complexing ability, hydrophobicity, favorable toxicity profile. Jenton International Whitchurch, UK Tel: 01256 89 2194 Fax: 01256 896486 rlittle@jenton.co.uk www.jentonuv.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Jenton JA rage of 3”, 4.5”, 6”, 10” modular cure lamps and conveyors • Product Name: Jenton JA Lumen Dynamics Jenton designs and manufactures UV curing (modular) systems and custom engineering including lab conveyors in stainless steel. Kowa American Corp. New York, NY Tel: 212-303-7800/800-221-2076 Fax: 212-310-0101 chemical@kowa.com www.chemical.kowa.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Kowa offers a wide variety of acrylates and acrylamides along with specialty UV curable oligomers. • Product Name: NK Oligo UA-122P Urethane Acyrlate Oligomer UA-122P is a difunctional urethane acrylate with polyester structure with outstanding elongation properties and good strength. UV cured films with it can have 40% elongation without failure. • Product Name: NK Oligo UA-6LR, 8LR, and 12LR Urethane Acrylate Oligomers These three branched urethane acrylate oligomers have high crosslink density and very low shrinkage. Functionalities range from 6 to 12 acryaltes, appearance light yellow wax. Miltec UV Stevensville, MD Tel: 410-604-2900 Fax: 410-604-2906 sales@miltec.com www.miltec.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Miltec offers high performance UV curing systems and supplies. • Product Name: MPI-400 Microwave Powered UV Curing System The powerful MPI-400 is an electrodeless UV system that outperforms the competition where it matters most. Using 25% less energy than the closest competing UV system, the MPI-400’s shockingly fast cure speeds are possible given the system’s ability to deliver the highest peak irradiance at the focal post available today. • Product Name: Labcure UV Curing System Miltec UV’s Labcure UV System is a high performance, versatile piece of UV curing equipment offered in several configurations. The Labcure offers two UV conveyors that can be configured for a wide range of UV curing applications. These conveyors utilize either or both of its two high performance UV curing systems. Nagase America Corporation New York, NY Tel: 212-703-1340 Fax: 212-398-0687 contact@nagase-nam.com www.nagaseamerica.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Self-healing coatings, polymeric microparticles, core-shell microparticles, highly transparent pigments, aliphatic epoxy compounds, specialty acrylate/methacrylate monomers, specialty urethane acrylate and epoxy acrylate oligomers, photoinitiators, photosensitizers, raw materials for cationic-UV Product Name: High Performance Antimony-Free Photoinitiators for Cationic UV Attributes/Comments: Available in both powder and liquid 50% solution in propylene carbonate, these new photoinitiators for cationic-UV display equivalent cure capabilities compared to hexafluoroantimonate anion-based triarylsulfonium ion salts and may be used to cure both colorless and pigmented formulations containing cycloaliphatic epoxides and other raw materials capable of curing by cationic-UV. Product Name: DENACOL DLC Series of Low Chloride-Content Epoxy Compounds Attributes/Comments: DENACOL DLC is a series of multifunctional glycidyl ether-based compounds with low total chloride content (100-900 ppm) and low viscosity characteristics. Acrylate/methacrylate monomers made from these monomers are also available for most grades. PCT Engineered Systems Davenport, IA Tel: 563-285-7411 Fax: 563-285-7433 pct@teampct.com www.teampct.com UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Electron beam curing systems Product Name: BroadBeam LE Series with Integrated Chill Roll Attributes/Comments: PCT has introduced an innovative electron beam curing system that utilizes an integrated chill roll to support the substrate as the coating is cured. The design provides temperature control for the substrate, low operating costs and easy maintenance access. Phoseon Technology Hillsboro, OR Tel: 503-439-6446 Fax: 503-439-6408 info@phoseon.com www.phoseon.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: UV LED curing lamps • Product Name: FireLine The FireLine is a scalable water-cooled UV LED curing system ideal for UV coating applications and is scalable up to 2m in length. UV LED curing technology offers drastically reduced energy consumption and significantly reduced surface temperature compared to traditional mercury-based lamps. Rahn USA Corp. Aurora, IL Tel: 630-851-4220 Fax: 360-851-4862 lundstrams@rahn-group.com www.rahn-group.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Full line of monomers, oligomers, additives and photoinitiators • Product Name: GENOPOL BP-1 Polymeric photoinitiator for low migration systems. • Product Name: GENOPOL TX-1 Polymer photoinitiator for migration systems. San Esters Corp. New York, NY Tel: 212-223-0020/800-337-8377 Fax: 212-310-0101 info@sanesters.com www.sanesters.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Acrylate, methacrylate and acrylamide monomers • Product Name: Viscoat 802 Tripentaerythritol Octa-Acrylate Viscoat 802 is a new high crosslink density acrylate monomer with all acrylate groups in close for a superior hardness and crosslink density. Viscosity is 20,000 to 30, 000 mPas. Sartomer USA, LLC Exton, PA Tel: 610-363-4100, 800-SARTOMER Fax: 610-363-4140 contact@sartomer.com www.sartomer.com • UV/EB Raw Material and/or Equipment Offered: acrylate and methacrylate monomers, epoxy and urethane acrylate oligomers, reactive amine coinitiators, crosslinking resins • Product Name: CN111US CN111US is a naturally derived acrylate oligomer modifier for epoxy-amine cure protective coatings deliver improved flexibility,impact resistance, wetting and cure performance. • Product Name: CN9025 CN9025 highly functional aliphatic urethane acrylate is non-yellowing and fast curing, and is suitable for hard-coats finishes on automotive body panels, head lamps, plastic parts and accessories. Shamrock Technologies, Inc. Newark, NJ Tel: 973-242-2999 Fax: 973-733-2143 cbauden@shamrocktechnologies.com www.shamrocktechnologies.com • Product Name: UltraMATTE 76 UltraMATTE 76 is a modified urethane polymer matting agent. It is a stir-in powder that can easily be dispersed in all coating systems including UV/EB systems. UltraMATTE 76 offers matting as well as slip, anti-burnish, abrasion and rub resistance and a smooth, warm feel. Recommended use level in UV/EB systems is 5% to 20%. Spectra Group Limited, Inc. Millbury, OH Tel: 419-837-9783 Fax: 419-837-6816 info@sglinc.com www.sglinc.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: UV/EB formulated products, color change additives and printed materials, R&D consulting expertise, photoinitiators • Product Name: EB Fast Check Strips Simple, reliable, fast and easy to use indicator of the relative accumulated does of EB and x-ray radiation. • Product Name: AP18-54 UV/Sunlight Primer Filler for Automotive Bulk as aerosol one-component UV/sunlight cured automotive primer fillers. High build, fast drying, good adhesion to metal, good corrosion and weather resistance, fast topcoat holdout. Synasia Inc. Metuchen, NJ Tel: 732-205-9880 Fax: 732-205-1788 info@synasia.com www.synasia.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Cycloaliphatic epoxy resins for cationic UV cure photoinitiators • Product Name: Syna-Epoxy 21 Excellent for solvent-free epoxy systems. Superb for LED encapsulation and high gloss coatings. Low chloride Syna-epoxy 06E used in electronics. Unimin Specialty Minerals, Inc. New Canaan, CT Tel: 618-747-2311 Fax: 618-747-9318 contactus@brilliantadditions.com www.brilliantadditions.com • Product Name: MINEX Functional Fillers and Extenders A naturally occurring sodium potassium alumino-silicate, MINEX offers a distinctive combination of structured properties sought by formulators. Additionally, MINEX optical properties are inherently well suited for radiation cured systems. Virtually transparent to ultraviolet and visible light, MINEX supports efficient UV curing without affecting transparency even at high loading levels. UV III Systems Inc. Alburgh, VT Tel: 508-883-4881/800-398-5456 Fax: 508-376-4748 sales@uv3.com www.uv3.com • UV/EB Raw Materials and/or Equipment Offered: Full range of UV curing equipment, complete production lines, modular units and a full range of hand held systems. • Product Name: UV4XL, Floorcure/ Handcure Model High power output runs on 120v outlet easily portable can be used as a hand held or a floor curing system for countertops or bathtubs, small to medium floor projects or R&D. Versatile easy to use, handle folds for easy transportation. Competitively priced. • Product Name: ECOCURE 3D High Speed UV Dryer Used by Rickenbacker & Martin Guitar, this unit is compact and inexpensive, there are several configurations to suit almost any product, dries in a few minutes with most UV coatings, cool enough to cure an acoustic guitar without heat damage. Available 120 or 240-volt system.
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