Clariant: Construction and construction applications can improve the sustainability of coatings

State-of-the-art flame retardants for protecting swelling wood and steel coatings in public buildings
Earthening UV protection for building wood facades
innovative low foam, time-saving pigment paste dispersants: Goodbye Snail Trail, Hello Smooth Paint, Strong Colored Surface
Organic Next Generation Pigments
Muttenz, March 7, 2019 - Clariant, an innovative specialty chemicals company, today announced that it will provide more sustainability, safety and even highlights to the urban landscape with new solutions to the challenges of the construction industry.
Clariant's coating-related innovations for this segment reflect the spirit of "every little help." They provide pigment pulp producers and paint formulaters to end-of-life paint users to create a more sustainable and attractive urban environment to cope with rapid global urbanization
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. This makes more efficient use of the bold paint of large building vehicles, reduces resource use, keeps brightly coloured buildings looking great with just one coat, or allows architects to safely take the natural, sustainable benefits of wood to new heights - concert halls and concert halls.
, which some call "new concrete", has become increasingly mainstream in public buildings, urban commercial and residential buildings and beyond. Whether it's engineering wood used as a new structure, such as facade cladding, green space fences, or in a historic theater, maintaining its quality and appeal creates unique protection and safety challenges.
clariant's two innovative solutions go to the heart of the problem. Using the non-halogenated flame retardant Exolit®855, paint manufacturers have the opportunity to create truly transparent fire-resistant and water-resistant expansion coatings for a wide range of wood types (in combination with transparent finishes) for brightness of both light and dark forest lighting. Exolit 855 can be used in environments with stringent flammability requirements, such as public buildings, to purchase critical evacuation times for residents in the event of a fire. It's perfectly clear and easy to make and apply.
in order to preserve the appearance and quality of external wood for a long time, the new Hostavin®3315DISP adds the benefits of sustainable, labelless UVA protection to water-like varnishes and paint systems. UV absorbers have excellent light durability and high migration resistance to help maintain a layer or fence, for example, regardless of the weather.
the benefits of transparent coatings last longer when used with Clariant's Hostavin 3070 DISP Blocked Amine Light Stabilizer (HALS). Both products use Clariant's EcoTain ® recognition of their sustainability benefits.
Clariant's insistence on sustainable innovation outdoors provides customers with an efficient and aesthetically advanced technology that helps to wave goodbye to the ugly snail trail on the painted exterior wall and shortens the production time of pigment slurry used in coatings.
's New Dispersogen®PLF100, which will be launched at the 2019 European Coatings Show, is an innovative low-foam polymer dispersant that helps paste producers to be more efficient even with hard-to-disperse red pigment concentrates. The finished slurry has a strong color intensity and can be used in the "wow" factor's bold exterior paint to add luster to the city. In addition, its low foam properties continue to be applied. Fewer microblisters are created during painting, making the painted surface smoother. In addition, the additive helps the pigment paste maintain its original viscosity level for up to two years during storage. If the paint is exposed to moisture before drying, the dispersant PLF 100 remains in the paint without leaching. This means that there are no snail marks on the colored coating, which means that it does not take time or cost to cover them up by repeating the coating.
benefits of sustainability can also be felt behind the scenes of construction sites. Clariant's non-halogenated flame retardant Exolit AP 435 is suitable for steel water-based expansion coatings, ensuring that they are easy to use even after cold environments and long-term storage. Clariant's famous ammonium polyphosphate contains the Clariant EcoTain label, overcoming previously known barriers to the long-term suitability of expansion coatings.
the same is true when steel structures that ensure safer and more effective fire protection are fully exposed, such as airports or cinemas, and are affected by high humidity climates. Exolit AP 468 (TP), a new non-halogenated flame retardant for expansion solvent-based coatings under harsh conditions, reduces the likelihood that coating fire resistance will be affected by water-related bubble covers.
even the paint used in building vehicles - an integral feature of today's urban landscape - is emerging in sustainable cities. Mass production of high-capacity, high-intensity tones requires complex dispersion by coating manufacturers to achieve the perfect tone for high-performance coatings. This is often a time-consuming and expensive process in terms of environmental impact, production time, and cleaning work.
Clariant's next-generation pigments not only have the advantage of high color brightness, they further simplify the co-dispersion process in high-speed rotary transformers, making bead grinding possible. For example, this increases ecological efficiency and flexibility when crafting strong opaque yellow hues for a large number of paint coatings. Production time is reduced by about. 85%, energy consumption reduced by up to 90%, sewage pollution significantly reduced, the number of cleaning times required to reduce, the potential to save 30% is feasible.
the next generation of pigments (formerly ED pigments) has had an impact on the market over the past few years. Covering the entire color ring from yellow to red, blue and green, Clariant's know-how has now reached maturity levels, and these pigments are now integrated into the regular product portfolio and will use Clariant's standard pigment nomenclature.
Clariant Coatings, flame retardants division manager Achim Hennemann commented: "While the impact of each innovation on building and building-related applications is not always obvious at the consumer level, providing our coatings customers with easy-to-use ingredients, improving efficiency, reducing resource utilization, enabling them to launch greener, more effective and safer products that enable everyone to create more sustainable and beautiful cities in the long term." "