New resin reduces curing costs and enhances performance

Coating applications, including those in the automotive coatings and the coil coatings industries, can be highly energy intensive. Curing the coatings system requires a great deal of heat if the desired performance is to be achieved. The Green Deal, together with rising energy costs, has triggered demand for low-cure systems that don’t adversely affect coatings properties.

With Basonol^® HPE 1170B, you can lower curing temperatures significantly and also avoid extensive re-formulation. You not only cut costs but also reduce your products’ carbon footprint!

This hyperbranched polyester can be added as a co-binder (5-20%) to existing 2K PU high-solid or conventional solvent-borne as well as to 1K melamine formulations.

Not only does Basonol^® HPE 1170B help reduce costs ‒ it also improves end properties such as surface hardness as well as resistance to chemicals at a lower temperature and to aggressive, heated chemicals.

Increased reactivity makes Basonol^® HPE 1170B suitable for low-temperature curing and curing of heat-sensitive substrates such as plastic parts. It is particularly effective in applications such as automotive OEM and coil coatings.