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Paint and Coatings Additives
Additives play a critical role in pigment dispersion and stabilization, rheology optimization, storage stability, defoaming, slip and mar, appearance, and application experience.
Additives for enhanced paint performance
Contractors and consumers want solutions that offer excellent flow and levelling, exceptional sag resistance, and enhanced hide and appearance. Our rheology modifiers, dispersants, silicone defoamers, slip and mar additives, wetting agents, levelling aids, and surfactants, make your coatings stand out from the rest. Our solutions can help you to tackle challenges like low VOC, surface smoothness, hydrophobicity, film build and viscosity stability in durable, sustainable and easy to formulate coatings that offer simple, long-lasting application.
Learn more about our range of solutions designed to enhance your paint and coatings additives projects
Rheology Modifiers
Explore our range of rheology modifiers for paint and coatings applications.
Dispersants
Explore our range of dispersants for paint and coatings applications.
Silicone Additives
Explore our range of silicone additives for paint and coatings applications.
Architectural Coatings Solutions
ACRYSOL™ Rheology Modifiers, TAMOL™ Dispersants, and DOWSIL™ Silicone Additives offer excellent coverage, efficient application, uniform paint finish, enhanced stain removal, washability, and exterior durability of coatings.
Industrial Coatings Solutions
ACRYSOL™ Rheology Modifiers, TAMOL™ Dispersants, and DOWSIL™ Silicone Additives offer high sag resistance, exceptional flow and leveling, excellent surface appearance, enhanced corrosion, scratch and water resistance.
Explore our selection of thickeners
ACRYSOL™ RM-725 Rheology Modifier
Efficient nonionic KU builder with excellent application properties.
ACRYSOL™ RM-3030 Rheology Modifier
Newtonian nonionic ICI builder supporting formulation flexibility.
ACRYSOL™ RM-995 Rheology Modifier
Nonionic thickener with excellent sag resistance and viscosity retention on tinting.
ACRYSOL™ DR-6600 Rheology Modifier
Acrylic thickener with excellent application properties and cleanability.
Explore our selection of dispersants
TAMOL™ 165A Dispersant
TAMOL™ 165A Dispersant offers excellent stain removal performance, corrosion and water resistance, and exterior durability.
TAMOL™ 2011 Dispersant
TAMOL™ 2011 Dispersant offers excellent gloss potential, improves water and stain resistance, and is suitable for low odor and ultra-low VOC formulations.
TAMOL™ 2028 Dispersant
TAMOL™ 2028 Dispersant offers excellent viscosity reduction and pigment stabilization for both organic and inorganic pigments, outstanding color and gloss development in waterborne coatings, and enhanced corrosion and water resistance.
Our coatings additives offer excellent flow and leveling, sag resistance, and surface smoothness, and enhance the scratch resistance and durability of coatings, creating long-lasting, visually appealing paint finish.
Our coatings additives offer excellent coverage, spatter resistance, and smooth application, helping to enable consumers and contractors to achieve exceptional painting results efficiently.
Our coatings additives enhance the barrier properties of coatings by providing excellent water and corrosion resistance, and external durability.
Our additives support low VOC formulations free of materials of concerns, including solutions for *biocide-free, **APEO-free, & food contact compliant formulations.
* Additives are manufactured without the use of biocide chemicals
** Additives are manufactured without APEO-containing surfactant
Explore our high-performance silicone additives
Improve performance, processing and productivity with silicone additives that are designed to help you produce better paints, coatings, printing inks and overprint varnishes easily and cost effectively.
DOWSIL™ 107F Foam Control Additive
DOWSIL™ 107F Foam Control Additive shows high efficiency and good compatibility in waterborne coatings and ink systems and has a low tendency to cause surface defects.
DOWSIL™ 52 Slip and Mar Additive
DOWSIL™ 52 Slip and Mar Additive is a ultra-high molecular weight silicone dispersion offering slip, abrasion, and scratch resistance and anti-blocking in waterborne paints, inks and coatings.
DOWSIL™ 87 Water Resistance Additive
DOWSIL™ 87 Additive offers water repellency and water beading for waterborne systems with minimal effect on water vapor permeability, particularly for decorative paints.
DOWSIL™ 402LS Leveling Additive
DOWSIL™ 402LS Leveling Additive is a silicone polyether-based additive that has multi-functional benefits including improvements in leveling, slip, anti-blocking, and applied hiding.
DOWSIL™ 67 Wetting Additive
DOWSIL™ 67 Additive imparts leveling and wetting to water-borne and radiation-curable formulations on difficult substrates such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester and polyvinylchloride, improving wetting and surface appearance of water-borne flexographic ink.
Resources
View formulation solutions with our Coatings and Inks Silicones Additives selection guide.
Learn more about the rheology of coatings with our ACRYSOL™ Rheology Modifiers product solutions guide.
Learn how you can get more from your paint with our TAMOL™ Dispersants products.
Learn more about how to formulate for enhanced applied hide.
Learn more about TAMOL™ 2028 Dispersant for waterborne coating and pigment concentrates applications.
Learn how DOWSIL™ 107F Additive can be used as defoamer to achieve better film performance.
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