Adhesives / Sealants

Resins & Curing Chemicals

• Alberdingk Boley, Inc. – Acrylic Emulsions, Polyurethane Dispersions, Acrylic-Epoxy Hybrids Emulsions
• Cytec Surface Specialties Inc. – Beckopox solvent & waterborne epoxy resins, amine curatives & additives.
• CVC Thermoset Specialties – Various specialty epoxy resin/resin blends, elastomer modified epoxy resins, monomers/reactive diluents, accelerators & catalysts which provide improved mechanical properties, toughening, flexibility and improved curing characteristics – a leader in unique high performance epoxy systems.
• Evonik Rohm GmbH – Methacrylate Polymers
• Solutia Inc. – Butvar Poly Vinyl Butyral Resins – modifying resins to improve strength, impact resistance & flexibility.

Rheology Modifiers

• Southern Clay Products, Inc. – Garamite unique mixed mineral thixotropes (replace fumed silica) – Provide unique rheology profile with high sag resistance, shear thinning and quick recovery performance.  Up to 30% less required than fumed silica.

UV Stabilizers & Absorbers

Specialties

• BYK USA, Inc. - Wetting and Dispersing Additives, Flow & Leveling Additives, Defoamers, Liquid Rheology Additives, Nano Surface Additives, Inorganic UV Absorbers, Adhesion Promoters
• Clariant - Biocides for adhesives and sealants, paints and coatings, inks, building products, and metalworking fluids.
• Momentive Performance Materials – Organo functional silane additives for filler/fiber coupling, improved resin adhesion/cohesion, and improved mechanicals (CoatOSil); silicone polyether block copolymers, trisiloxane & reactive silicone additives for anti-foam, improved pigment/filler wetting, flow & leveling, mar resistance & slip (Silwet).

Adhesives & Caulks

• CVC Thermoset Specialties –Monomers are used in epoxy formulations to reduce viscosity and improve handling, processing, and application properties of formulations. Monomers and modifiers also enhance features, such as flexibility and toughness, and maintain chemical resistance and UV stability. Chemistries included Aromatic & Aliphatic Glycidyl Ethers, Glycidyl Amine and Glycidyl Esters.
• Cytec Surface Specialties Inc. – Beckopox epoxy resins & additives, acrylic & mod-acrylic emulsions
• Evonik Rohm GmbH - Modifying resins for improving adhesive performance & increasing solids.
• EP Minerals – Flux calcined and natural diatomaceous earth products for filling & flattening.
• Momentive Performance Materials – Silquest organo functional silanes – Used to create moisture cure urethanes, improve adhesive strength and integrity.
• MinTech International Inc. – High purity low cost attipulgite clay for rheology & mica for filling.
• Rhodia – Dispersants, surfactants & defoamers – Offering one of the broadest product ranges available.  Rhodia can provide packaged solutions to problems with stability (viscosity), foam generation (production & application), etc.
• Solutia Inc. – Poly Vinyl Butyral Resins – Used as modifying resins for improved flexibility, tack and adhesion.
• Southern Clay Products, Inc. – Organoclay, bentonite clays & associative PEG HEAT, HEUR, HASE rheology modifiers; Garamite – Unique mixed mineral thixotrope for epoxy coatings (more effective & efficient than fumed silica); Claytone, Tixogel organoclays for solvent coatings; Bentolite, Permont, Optiflo & Optigel clays & associative thickeners for waterborne coatings.