Coatings World - April 2012

comes to modern wet grinding technology - providing solutions for all process requirements. In addition to printing inks and coatings, it also includes the areas of chemistry, electronics and other specialty applications. State of the art three-roll mills and horizontal bead mills are available for medium and high viscosity applications, such as offset inks, coatings or pastes. Bühler’s proven high-performance bead mills provide the right solution for low-viscosity or nano-scale products, such as inkjet inks, liquid printing inks and color concentrates for LCD screens.

Bühler Inc. (Nanotechnology) Performance Additives Booth 323 www.buhlergroup.com Oxylink is a performance additive for water-based formulations. It allows the formulator to combine higher film performance with a great ease of use. Oxylink increases the cross-linking of waterborne 1-component coatings, which results in benefits such as increased solvent rub resistance, water and humidity resistance, as well as blocking resistance. Due to the fast reaction kinetics, Oxylink also yields increased drying speed and improved early resistance properties. The product is added into the letdown of the formulation manufacturing site, and no mixing at the application site is needed.

Burgess Pigment Co.

Booth 1151 www.burgesspigment.com Burgess Pigment Company is a leading provider of functional anhydrous and hydrous aluminum silicates specifically designed to contribute key properties to your final product. Servicing specialty coating, plastics, rubber and cementitious markets for over 60 years, Burgess Pigment Company understands customer performance requirements, and delivers specialized kaolins that provide function and value to formulators.

leading supplier of additives and measuring instruments. The coatings, printing inks and plastics industries are some of the main areas of application of BYK additives. Yet in paper surface finishing, or the production of adhesives and sealants as well as construction chemistry, BYK additives are also improving the product properties and production processes. In 2009 BYK extended its portfolio with raw materials for the production of mold release agents for aluminum die casting. BYK Instruments develops measuring instruments for the objective assessment of color, appearance and the physical properties of coatings, plastics, and paper surfaces.

BYK-Gardner USA

Booth 1000 www.byk.com/instruments

BYK-Gardner, member of BYK Additives & Instruments business unit, is an international partner providing complete QC solutions for testing metallic, solid and liquid colors; appearance characteristics of coatings including gloss, orange peel, mottling; and physical properties such as application, dispersion, film thickness, and viscosity. Visit our booth to see the new cloud-runner for mottling, BYK-mac for measuring total color of effect finishes, micro-gloss gloss meter, and BYK-Gardner’s byko-chart drawdown cards and request a 2012-2013 complete instrument catalog.

Cardolite Booth 1828 www.cardolite.com Cardolite will be featuring its newest epoxy curing agents and polyols based on cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL) technology. The new line of curing agents includes highly resistant phenalkamines that withstand harsh chemicals at extreme conditions, phenalkamides that provide extended overcoat window, and waterborne phenalkamines for regulatory compliance and low VOC coatings. CNSL polyols make up a new class of renewable polyols with improved performance due to its hydrophobicity and unique structure. Cardolite will also be presenting a paper on phenalkamide technology.