Everberg, Belgium - Huntsman will exhibit its range of amines and adhesives, carbonates and curing agents, isocyanates and surfactants, polyurethanes and titanium dioxide pigments -- to help customers with adhesive, ink, coating and paint formulations -- at the European Coatings Show (ECS) in March.
At this year's ECS, Huntsman will showcase:
• Jefflink 136 diamine, a new cycloaliphatic amine chain extender designed to create colour-stable polyurea spray coatings.The material is both user and environmentally friendly.
• Vitrox composite polyurethane resin technology, a new binding platform for adhesive applications that offers high heat stability, long pot life, very fast cycle times. Huntsman says it "is ideal for formulations that need to cure quickly at moderate temperatures, for example on heat-sensitive substrates such as plastics."
•Fast cycloaliphatic amine XTA-801 for low-temperature curing which offers low viscosity, low colour and high reactivity, and is ideal for use in coatings, flooring, tooling, adhesives and composite applications. When combined with Jeffamine polyetheramine (PEA) hardeners, this product improves glass transition temperatures, modulus and hardness, as well as chemical resistance and low-temperature curing properties, the company said.
• A new isocyanate prepolymer for fire-retardant polyurea that makes it possible to embed FR properties in polyurea. Huntsman said this development, reflecting market needs, has the potential to improve fire performance uses such as coating concrete and steel structures in multi-storey car parks.
• Wood bonding isocyanates: A new range of structural and non-structural wood bonding solutions for the adhesives market. With a broad range of isocyanates available to combine with polyols, Huntsman says it can help formulators develop adhesives with a far greater application window than is currently possible with solutions available to the existing parquet glue market.
Huntsman will deliver show-floor presentations about its new fire-retardant isocyanate prepolymer, at Stand 7-563 in Hall 7, during the event, being held at the Nuremberg Messe in Germany, 19-21 March.
