Resins & Curing Chemicals

• 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.
• United Initiators – Wide range of peroxide initiators
• Solutia Inc. – Butvar Poly Vinyl Butyral Resins – modifying resins to improve strength, impact resistance & flexibility.

Fillers/Extenders

• Excalibar Minerals LLC – Ultra clean/pure, washed & calcined grades of natural barium sulfate.
• Imerys – Wide range of calcium carbonate fillers.
• R.T. Vanderbilt – Wide range of specialty talc fillers.
• Sachtleben Corporation – Micro & nano-sized synthetic barium sulfate extenders which maximize prime pigment color development/stabilization, while not significantly detracting from base resin mechanical properties.  Zinc sulfide & lithipone pigments that provide prime white hide and improved mechanical properties over TiO2.

Pigments/Dispersions

• Lanxess – Iron Oxide Pigments – Full range of conventional & high performance iron oxide pigments

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

• 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).