Features and Benefits of
Dow Epoxy Products
Dow offers the following categories of epoxy resins:
- Liquid epoxy resins
Low to moderate room temperature viscosities
High filler acceptance
Extremely good corrosion resistance
Good chemical resistance
Excellent film formers
Good adhesion to metals - Solid epoxy resins
Higher molecular weight
Reduced exotherm
Cracking resistance - Solution and Solid solutions
- Brominated epoxy resins
Used to obtain fire retardance - Epoxy Novolac resins
Thermal stability
Improved resistance to acids, bases, and solvents
Retention of mechanical properties at high temperatures and under wet conditions
Minimal shrinkage - Glycol epoxy resins
- Flexible epoxy resins
- Epoxy Emulsions and Dispersions
Low VOC
Water clean up
Fast drying time
Excellent substrate wetting - Epoxy Intermediates
- Epoxy Tougheners
Improve fracture toughness
Non-reactive
Significant adhesion improvement
Low viscosity block copolymer composition
For use in amine, DICY, anhydride, and phenolic cured epoxy systems
Each of these resins provides unique benefits for formulators. These products vary in chemical structure, molecular weight, viscosity and functionality. Final system performance will depend on formulation variations.
Applications for Dow epoxy product include:
- Adhesives
- Civil Engineering
- Composites
- Electrical Laminates
- Encapsulation/Tooling
- Industrial Coatings including:
-Automotive
-Can and Coil
-Marine and Protective
-UV/Photocure
-Powder
D.E.R.TM Epoxy Resins and D.E.N.TM Epoxy Novolac Resins
FORTEGRATM Epoxy Tougheners
