Paints/Coating

Building envelope with air and water barriers. Insulated walls reduce energy consumption and amplify the effectiveness of heating and cooling systems. R-Guard® halts air and water leakage in structures such as walls, material transitions, and heating seams. This technology does not use phthalates and other harmful ingredients. Buildings with this technology are more resilient and sustainable. This technology can be applied to various materials and adapts to the surface on which it is applied.

Aqueous acid-modified polyolefin dispersion designed for coating metal packages. CANVERA is based on polyolefin dispersions (PODs) composed of polyolefin resin. This technology is used for internal food and beverage metal can coating. It does not use toxic materials that are traditionally found in epoxy systems. This product also provides excellent adhesion and corrosion protection without affecting flavor. This coating can be applied to a large range of food types at a large range of temperatures.
 

Marine antifoulant to control plant and animal growth on ship hulls. Traditional antifoulants are acutely and chronically toxic, bioaccumulate, decrease reproductive viability, and increase the shell thickness of shellfish. The Sea-Nine antifoulant (4,5-dichloro-2-n-octyl-4isothiazolin-3-one) degrades rapidly (one day in seawater and one hour in sediment) and has essentially zero bioaccumulation. 

Process to print labels directly on glass. Print labels directly on glass eliminates the need for paper labels, decals, or applied ceramic labeling (ACL). ACL prints the glass with ink containing heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and chromium. This alternative method uses inks that contain no heavy metals and little to no VOCs. They are biodegradable, replace ovens with ultraviolet light, save raw materials, and produce recyclable decorated glass. 

Two-component (2K) waterborne polyurethane coatings. These waterborne polyurethane coatings eliminate most or all of the organic solvents used in conventional solventborne polyurethane coatings. These novel coatings reduce VOC and HAP emissions by 50 to 90%. 

EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2000 Greener Reaction Conditions Award

Copper-based wood preservative solutions for exterior treated lumber products. Preservative solutions provide long-term protection from fungal decay and termite attack. There are two types of treatments: Copper Azole Type C (CA-C) and Copper Azole Type B (CA-B). The Preserve CA-C treatment is available with a built-in water repellent called Preserve® Plus. CA-C is available across the US, whereas CA-B is available in Canada. CA-C is made of 96.1% soluble copper that is 100% recycled, organic triazole co-biocides, tebuconazole, and propiconazole.

Organic pigments. Traditional heavy-metal based pigments contain lead, hexavalent chromium, or cadmium. These organic pigments replace these heavy metals with calcium, strontium, or barium. They have low potential toxicity and migration and are earth abundant. Usually, organic pigments are costly and wasteful and require hazardous manufacturing processes. However, this product's lower toxicity reduces hazards to both customers and workers and improves disposal. It also has better environmental impact and cost-to-performance values.

Safer chemical processing system in the flexographic printing industry. This new system reduces the amount of solvents needed for printing, eliminates hazardous solvents, reduces explosion potential and emissions during solvent recycling, and increases worker safety. This system includes washout solvents and reclamation/recycling machinery. All solvents can be recycled in the Cold Reclaim System™, which sustainably recycles solvents through filtration and centrifugation.

PFC free water-resistant down treatment. HyperDry is based in natural waxes that allow superior water-resistance performance and strength. Like conventional treatments, this technology uses hydrocarbon chains to decrease surface tension in order to make the down hydrophobic. However, HyperDry achieves this without the traditional use of PFC. Fluorinated compounds are toxic and have an extremely long half-life, making biodegradation almost impossible. This inability to biodegrade causes pollution in waterways and the ecosystem.

Decorative metallic coating for plastic parts. ePD™ is short for embedded PVD. Conventional metal coatings use chromium III and chromium VI, which are toxic to humans and the environment. This coating consists of three layers; the metallization effect is sandwiched between two layers of UV lacquer. The process is completely automated and is achieved by the INUBIA I6 and I12 systems. The first layer is the base coat. This base coat equalizes irregularities on the surface of the plastic. The inline PVD is placed on top of this base layer through magnetron sputtering in a vacuum chamber.