The acquisition expands Arclin's capabilities in North America, and is viewed as a key step in the company's strategy toward expanding its product presence into sectors that are adjacent to its core chemistries and business.
The new product enables coatings and ink formulators to achieve outstanding pigment dispersion and stability, while enabling ever-stringent sustainability initiatives for 100% solids systems and a wide range of solvent-based systems.
This article demonstrates how to maximize the performance of waterborne acrylic metal coatings using amino alcohols as highly efficient dispersants for pigments.
Newer polymeric dispersants, which represent improved alternatives to the more traditional anionic dispersants, enable formulators to achieve good stability and color properties for dispersed pigments in waterborne paint systems.
H.B. Fuller Co. has signed an agreement to sell its surfactants, thickeners and dispersants business to Tiarco LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Textile Rubber and Chemical Co. Inc.
