As part of its on-going commitment to strengthen its offering for the global coatings and resins market, Perstorp is unveiling new products and enhanced support at Stand 7A-511.Perstorp’s raw materials enable customers to create coatings systems with high performance and low environmental impact for a wide range of decorative and industrial applications used in emerging growth markets such as coatings for electronic parts and materials, printing inks and pre-coating wood.
Visitors can look forward to the results of recent capacity expansions and acquisitions increasing Perstorp’s capability both to develop and produce new grades for specific customer applications and to ensure production for established products. Also, to mark the 40th anniversary of its extensive Capa™ range for polyurethane (PU) coatings, formulators and producers will also be able to try out Perstorp’s new online Product Selector, designed to ease finding the right grade for a specific application.
Products making their European Coatings Show debut include:
- A new addition to the Capa portfolio, the Capa™ Lactide 8000 Seriespartially renewable polyols for 2K and 1K industrial coatings. These new transparent liquid polyols are particularly suitable for production of high-performance, soft-touch coatings as well as coatings with enhanced adhesion to various substrates, and which require no solvents.
- The latest extension to Perstorp’s Oxymer™ range of polycarbonate diols for increased weatherability of polyurethane dispersions, as well as castable and thermoplastic elastomers. New Oxymer HD56 and Oxymer HD112 are based on 1,6-hexane diol. The Oxymer HD range helps formulators to create products that withstand the toughest weather conditions, especially high temperatures and direct sunlight. Oxymer HD also provides high resistance to solvent degradation and yields polymers with high hardness, superior chemical resistance, good flexibility and excellent strength.
- ·Charmor™ PM40 Care, which provides the next development step in safe carbon source products for intumescent systems. It has a unique and unmatchable environmental profile, being based on renewable feedstocks. Charmor preserves the integrity of steel structures when temperatures reach around 500 °C in a fire.
Perstorp is showcasing its strength in alkyd and polyester resin productswith highlights from its Penta, Di-Penta and TMP multi-functional polyols, Bis-MPA for waterborne resins, as well as BEPD and Neo diols. Perstorp recently acquired two businesses and is investing in its existing large plants in Germany and Sweden to support its customers in the resins industry who depend on Penta raw materials.
Perstorp has also invested in new capacity for its Neopentyl Glycolessential building blocks for powder coatings and stoving enamels, demonstrating its long-standing commitment to the Chinese coatings market. Perstorp’s new capacity for Neo is now on-stream at a facility in Zibo, China. Neo mainly goes into polyesters for powder coating resins, can and coil coatings, as well as unsaturated polyester resins.
“Perstorp’s high-value specialty products and critical building blocks are trusted by customers in a wide range of markets, and we have ambitious plans to grow our business even further. We are concentrating on providing customers with improved performance while reducing where possible the environmental footprint of the supply chain, to deliver custom solutions that address both current and emerging industry trends, and facilitate innovation and differentiation,” comments David James, Innovation Vice President for Perstorp’s Coatings & Resins.
