ACRYSOL RM-1020

APEO-FREE, HYDROPHOBICALLY MODIFIED ETHYLENE OXIDE URETHANE (HEUR) RHEOLOGY MODIFIER
  • Product Type: Associative Thickener-HEUR
  • Master Product Number: MITM11329
  • Product SKUs: ITM18138, ITM18256, ITM19505

Product Details

It is an APEO-free, hydrophobically modified ethylene oxide urethane (HEUR) rheology modifier. This is a high shear (ICI) rheology modifier to be used in formulations sensitive to color float or syneresis. It helps deliver excellent flow and leveling, gloss development, and water resistance to a wide variety of coatings formulations.
 

Benefits

  • Broad formulation latitude
  • Ease of handling
  • Use over a wide pH range
  • Reduced levels required for comparable rheology
  • Improved gloss development versus HEC
  • Most offerings ideal for low VOC formulations
  • Product offerings across different sheer ranges
  • Excellent spatter resistance
  • Broad latex compatibility
  • APEO Free*
*made without APEO-containing surfactant
 

Typical Applications

  • Interior and exterior paints
  • Wide range of sheen through high gloss paints, including low-VOC formulations
  • Water-based architectural and industrial coatings
  • Utility with all binder types
  • Additive Applications
  • Exterior Insulation Finish Systems (EIFS)
  • Paint/coatings
  • Paper
  • Textiles
  • Paper processing and finishing
  • Building and Construction
  • Nonwoven binders
  • General industrial finishes
  • Art conservation applications
  • Water-based industrial baking enamels

About Dow Coating Materials

Dow Coating Materials leads innovation in technologies that help advance the performance of paints and coatings. Its water-based acrylic emulsion technology revolutionized the global paint industry, and was named a historic chemical landmark by the American Chemistry Association. Dow Coating Materials offers a broad portfolio of binders, dispersants, rheology modifiers and surfactants for a wide variety of end markets.

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