Brenntag and Kao have a long-standing successful partnership in Sweden and Norway, and will now serve customers in the entire Nordic region with a portfolio of surfactant solutions.
Sustainability dominated every conversation at the 2023 European Coatings Show. Learn about some of the innovative technologies that were introduced to help the industry formulate, manufacture, and apply the coatings of tomorrow.
Increased regulatory pressure around the use of fluorosurfactants has led to a search for alternative surfactants that still provide good wetting and leveling attributes.
Learn how the amount of actual dispersant added on pigment solids will have an effect on tinting power, stability, compatibility of formulations, and other properties.
The surfactants we add to synthetic latexes have allowed us to create wonderful nanoparticles and at the same time provide colloidal stability to the dispersions. But they also can cause foaming problems when mixing and transporting the latexes, and remain in the final products, causing potential water absorption problems in films and coatings.
Clariant has unveiled its new Vita 100% bio-based surfactants and polyethylene glycols (PEGs) to help directly address climate change by helping remove fossil carbon from the value chain.
