BASF Offers Tailor-Made Product Innovation

The broad range of products offered by BASF included dispersions, resins, formulation additives, light stabilizers, antioxidants, pigments, hardeners, crosslinking agents, reactive diluents and solvents.

Environmentally Compatible Corrosion Protection for Industrial Metal Coatings

The new water-based Acronal® PRO 7600 acrylic dispersion provides light to medium corrosion protection (categories C2 to C3) for industrial metal coatings. The binder offers an environmentally compatible drop-in solution that does not contain APEO and replaces Acronal PRO 760, the current market standard. Acronal PRO 7600 can be used for all current applications such as airless, brush, roll or dip.

Environmentally Compatible High-Performance Dispersion for Interior Paints

With the Acronal 6292 dispersion, paint manufacturers are able to produce sophisticated interior paints with highest wet scrub resistance at competitive prices. The water-based styrene-acrylate binder is a high-quality alternative to conventional technologies and facilitates the formulation of environmentally compatible interior paints: Acronal 6292 is a low-odor product that neither contains ammonia nor coalescents.

Highly Efficient Defoamer for Water-Based Systems

Foam formation is a common problem that occurs during production and processing of paints and coatings. To avoid such problems, BASF has added a new defoamer to its range of formulation additives that is based on organo-modified polysiloxanes – FoamStar® SI 2240. Apart from its strong defoaming effect, FoamStar SI 2240 shows broad compatibility with different binder systems and excellent long-term stability and efficiency. FoamStar SI 2240 is registered worldwide and can, among other applications, be used in water-based architectural coatings, industrial coatings, as well as in pigment concentrates. In addition, FoamStar SI 2240 complies with specific FDA and EU requirements for food contact and is therefore suited for printing and packaging applications.

New Kaolin-Based Product for Architectural Paint Applications

With the launch of kaolin-based Mattex® PRO, BASF continues to develop new technology with focus on sustainability. Mattex PRO enables paint formulators to eliminate flatting agents and crystalline silica-containing minerals while simultaneously providing simpler formulations and the same high-performance results with less TiO₂.

Creating New Colors for the Coatings Market

BASF also introduced Paliocrom® Brilliant Red EH 1000 (L 3254) and showcased the new Global Color Presentation for the automotive and industrial coatings markets. Developed in 2016, the presentation highlighted upcoming trends for 2017 and beyond. 

Paliocrom Brilliant Red EH 1000 (L 3254) is an extremely saturated mid-shade red silver dollar aluminum pigment that simultaneously delivers superior travel, excellent gloss and unmatched hiding. This is made possible through very narrow particle size distributions of ultrasmooth aluminum flakes that are coated in an optimized process and passivated to provide gassing stability. The new effect pigment expands styling options for automotive and high-performance industrial coatings customers.