Emerald Featuring Innovative Performance Materials for Tougher, More Durable Coatings
At Stand 1-246, Emerald is featuring innovative performance materials for tougher, more durable coatings, including solutions that optimize performance features that are typically considered challenging to balance within formulations.
For example, Emerald Kalama Chemical recently completed a five-year study on exterior weathering of architectural coatings. New data is presented at Emerald's booth showing that K-FLEX® coalescents actually match the weathering of high-VOC coalescents such as TMPDMB while reducing VOCs. This challenges some typical perceptions that lowering VOCs comes at the expense of performance. In addition, data is shown that demonstrates how K-FLEX coalescents improve other critical properties, such as gloss, scrub resistance and toughness, providing an overall balance of desirable properties coupled with ultra-low-VOCs.