UV-Curable Resins Surface Specialties, Inc. Ucecoat® 7849 offers outstanding adhesion to a wide variety of woods, cork and paper, and provides good flexibility, stain and scratch resistance. Ucecoat 6558 is a waterborne aliphatic urethane acrylate that was developed within the range to ensure superb results in primer formulations with incomparable wood wetting. Also, depending on the substrate and coat weight, it offers the advantage of potentially eliminating the flash-off step since the water can be partially absorbed into the wood, and mostly evaporated by the heat of the UV lamps. Ucecoat resins provide outstanding coating performance with very fast drying for immediate stacking of coated items, easy handling and minimal dust attraction. Visit www.surfacespecialties.com.
Nanoparticle Pigments TOR Minerals Company has developed two new Alumina Mono Oxyhydrate-based pigments for use in the coatings industry. The pigments, which are both in the nanoparticle range, have been registered as TOR BRITE™ and TOR COAT™. The pigments impart hardness and gloss to coatings, which improves characteristics like impact and scratch resistance. These new pigments are the first of a number of new products the company is introducing that utilize its propriety production process, which allows TOR to economically produce commercial quantities of nanoparticle-size pigments. Visit www.torminerals.com.