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Coating & Adhesives Raw Materials
Enhancing performance. Retaining gloss.
 

We offer a comprehensive portfolio of emulsifiers, dispersants, and defoamers designed for cutting-edge coatings and adhesives applications, ensuring your formulations reach new heights. Our BASF additives cater to industry demands for sustainable and cost-efficient raw materials, while also meeting consumers' expectations for increased safety, durability, and a sophisticated appearance.

Enhance your surface properties with our solutions that provide resistance to abrasion and scratches, as well as slip modification, matting effects, and adhesion promotion. From architectural to automotive, construction to furniture coatings, our range is crafted to improve both quality and appearance. With our extensive expertise, we guide you in selecting and utilizing the right solutions with utmost efficiency.

Product Application
Emulsion Polymerization
A particularly distinguished application for surfactants lies in their role as emulsifiers in aqueous emulsion polymerization processes. BASF Industrial Formulators offers an extensive range of anionic and non-ionic emulsifiers, which can be utilized individually or in various combinations to achieve optimal results in the production of polymer dispersions. Our products for emulsion polymerization, both in process-control and post-stabilization, include Disponil®, Emulan®, Lutensol®, and Pluronic® ranges.
 
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Emulsifiers for Resins
Discover BASF's diverse selection of bio-based surfactants, sourced from various natural materials. Our waterborne alkyd systems present an excellent opportunity to merge low VOC emissions with sustainable, bio-based content. Select the ideal emulsifier to enhance the bio-based composition of your alkyd emulsions and achieve superior performance.



 
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Raw Materials for Additives for the Coatings and Adhesives Industry
Our high-quality ingredients enhance performance, durability, and aesthetics of your formulations, meeting the growing demand for innovative and sustainable solutions.
They are designed to help your additives improve adhesion, increase resistance, and achieve exceptional finishes – coatings characteristics sought for by customers in automotive, construction, textile, furniture, and other industries.
Among others, our range of raw materials includes defoamers, wetting agents, water-soluble polymers as dispersants for pigments, adhesion promoters, and biocides.
 
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Product Application
Building blocks
 
BASF Industrial Formulators offers a wide range of specialties and precursors. They can be used for the optimization of binders and coatings formulations and the improvement of their performance. Our portfolio comprises a wide range of alkoxylates and polyethylene imines and their derivatives.






 
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Functionalities in Paints, Coatings & Adhesives

Functionalities 
Emulsifying
Emulsifiers are used to create and stabilize mixtures of two or more immiscible liquids. They are surface-active substances composed of hydrophilic and lipophilic segments, reducing coalescence and stabilizing droplet formation.

The choice of emulsifier depends on the emulsion type and desired performance characteristics.

 
Functionalities 
Dispersing
Solid particles dispersed in water tend to re-agglomerate if particle-particle repulsion is insufficient. This spontaneous process, known as flocculation, leads to instability in dispersions.
Dispersing agents prevent flocculation by stabilizing solid-liquid systems.

Our products enable high-concentration dispersions, extended stability, and compatibility with diverse chemical additives across industries.

 
Functionalities
Foam Control
Foam can be either beneficial or disruptive, depending on the application. In some processes, stable foam is required; in others, it impairs efficiency and product quality. Drawing on extensive experience, we offer solutions that ensure optimal foam control tailored to your process needs.




 
Functionalities
Surface Modification
Our products modify surface characteristics to enhance performance in downstream applications. They improve coating adhesion, increase hydrophobicity for easier rinsing, adjust surface friction, and reduce corrosion.


 
Functionalities
Control of Metal Ions  
Our products regulate the behavior of metal ions through targeted interactions. Chelating agents, water-soluble polymers, and silicates bind unwanted ions to prevent scale formation.

For controlled metal deposition and the creation of glossy, well-adhering surfaces, electroplating additives and methanesulfonic acid (MSA) are essential.


 
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