BASF Offers Lightweight
Waterproofing Slurry
MasterSeal 6100 FX
Two years after being launched in the
European markets, BASF’s MasterSeal
6100 FX is now used in several European
countries for some of the most complex
and demanding waterproofing projects.
MasterSeal 6100 FX is a highly flexible
and elastic one-component membrane,
with low consumption and rapid-cur-ing. Its main advantages derive from its
technology that combines the powerful
binding systems with the addition of
powdery polymers. The product is part
of the Master Builders Solutions product range under which BASF bundles
its advanced chemical solutions for new
construction, maintenance, repair and
renovation of structures.
Because of its lightweight formulation with higher yield, MasterSeal
6100 FX is a very efficient and economically advantageous product, the
company. A pack of 15 kilograms of
MasterSeal 6100 FX is substituting
a kit of comparable two-component
products, which usually also require
eight to 10 liters of liquid polymers
to be mixed to a bag of 20 to 25 kilograms of powder product. The need
on storage space as well as the amount
of waste package material will be reduced (up to 50 percent), and the costs
for transportation will decline. With
1.8 kilograms of MasterSeal 6100 FX
powder per square meter and down to
a temperature of -10ºC, after hardening, a continuous membrane is formed,
capable to withstand positive water
pressure resistance up to five bars and
to bridge cracks up to two millimeters.
The product features ease of application, rapid hardening and reduced
downtime, compared with other liquid waterproofing membranes, and depending on the size of the project, using
MasterSeal 6100 FX, a contractor could
cut up to one complete working day.
Double Bond Chemical
Low Viscosity UV Curable
Oligomers Go Gree
Double Bond Chemical, a manufacturer
of photoinitiators and oligomers recently
increased its annual output in photoinitia-tor production, from 4,500 tons to 9,000
tons, and its annual output in oligomers
production increased to 10,000 tons.
DBC’s production line of UV curable
oligomers in its Jiangsu factory in China
has also expanded.
In traditional spray coating procedures, when the viscosity of paint and
inks get high, additional processing before UV curing is a prerequisite, such
as the adjunction of solvent. Products
typically used to reduce the viscosity
by increasing the dosage of monomers
leads to monomer migration issues or
the adjunction of solvent causing environmental issues.
DBC develops UV curable oligomers
with higher molecular weight, low visi-cosity, such as products DM576, 1710,
1720, 1283C for use in coating mobile
phones. These UV curable oligomer
products featur low viscosity without
monomer migration issue. Furthermore,
DBC also improves the physical properties of its products, such as smell, skin
irritation and cross linking issues, the
company stated.
Many of the physical property issues are terminated by DBC hydrogen
bond technology in which obstruction
within H-Bond is lowered and ideal
viscosity is rendered. With advanced
technology, the need for monomers
is reduced to even none. The technology is expected to be applied in green
standards of VOC, replacing traditional 3D spray coating materials in
woodworking, furniture, bicycle and
3C sectors. DBC develops UV curable oligomers with 1,000 to 1,500
molecular weight and 1,000 to 3,000
viscosity CPS that meet the need of its
global customers.
DIC Offers Two New
Aqueous Dispersions
DIC offers two new aqueous dispersion
products with plans to file an approval
application for Toxic Substances Control
Act (TSCA) for both. EPICLON EXA-
8530 is an aqueous dispersion of a high
molecular weight solid epoxy resin from
DIC Corp. The resin is hydroxyl func-
tional and contains no epoxide groups.
EPICLON EXA-8530 contains 2-butoxy-
ethanol (BE)along with small quantities
of isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and 2-dimeth-
ylaminoethanol (DMEA). EPICLON
EXA-8530 features excellent anticorro-
sion performance , good storage stability,
excellent adhesion to a wide variety of
substrates, low VOC content and com-
patibility with other resins
EPICLON EXA-8610 is an aqueous
dispersion of a 1-type solid epoxy resin.
EPICLON EXA-8610 contains no organ-
ic solvents. The resin is both epoxy and
hydroxyl functional and can be cured
using either functionality. Curing agents
most commonly employed are those that
are water soluble or dispersible and are
stable in an aqueous medium; for ex-
ample, dicyandiamide, substituted imid-
azoles, aliphatic amines, polyamides and
their adducts, melamine formaldehyde,
urea formaldehyde and water based po-
ly-isocyanate resins. It features excellent
anticorrosion performance, high solids
content, good storage stability, excellent
adhesion to a wide variety of substrates,
zero organic solvent content, allowing
wide formulation flexibility and compat-
ibility with other resins.
OMNOVA Solutions
Launches PLIOTEC HDT12
Resin for Anti-corrosion
DTM Coatings
OMNOVA Solutions has announced the
North American and Latin American introduction of PLIOTEC HDT 12 resin
specifically designed for the formulation
of waterborne, high-gloss, anti-corrosion
BASF Offer Lightweight Waterproofing
Slurry Masterseal 6100 FX
