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The European Coatings Show 2011, held in late March in Nuremberg, Germany, was a smashing success for the Coatings & Additives (CA) Business Unit.

The use of the new highly effective substrate wetting additive from Evonik in spray-applied waterborne coatings systems guarantees fine atomization ...

Raise the performance of your waterborne coatings by using siloxane Gemini technology!

Especially in Deco-paints, a well balanced cost calculation is very important. The new wetting and dispersing additive TEGO® Dispers 741 W enables formulators to develop cost-efficient colorants with outstanding colour strength. TEGO® Dispers 741 W can be used for the formulation of dispersions based on organic, inorganic and carbon black pigments and is highly compatible with a broad variety of binders.

The new universal wetting and dispersing additives, TEGO® Dispers 653 and TEGO® Dispers 656, enable colored architectural paints to be formulated with low water absorption characteristics.

The Adhesive Resins Product Line of Evonik Industries AG, Essen, Germany has expanded its DYNACOLL® 7000 building block system to include polyester made from renewable raw materials.

TEGO® Foamex 831 is a high performance yet silicone- and mineral oil-free defoamer concentrate for waterborne printing inks ...

TEGO® AddBond HS is a new high-solids co-binder which ensures excellent adhesion properties on metals and plastics. This powerful addition to the successful, long-established portfolio of TEGO® AddBond adhesion resins enables the formulation of solventborne high-solids paints with excellent adhesion on a very wide range of substrates.

The continuous production process for methacrylate-based binders, CDPTM, has opened the door to products which improves the properties of coating formulations.

Perfect high film thickness coatings, increased solids content and limited solvent choice, require effective measures particularly against micro-foam.