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Radcure Raw Materials and Equipment Directory

Here is a look at the latest offerings from radcure raw material suppliers. For more information on the products listed, please contact the company directly.

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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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