COATINGS AND PAINTS

Additive Innovations that Go Beyond Surface Level

Creating Paints and Coatings with Functionality in Mind

Additive Solutions Supporting Paint and Coating Performance

Paints and coatings cover many of the products we touch—and deliver essential performance that we couldn’t do without.

We are trusted globally as an industry pioneer in coating additives, which means expert knowledge and trusted innovations that translate across market applications. Our portfolio is engineered to enhance the performance, durability, and aesthetics of paints and coatings, with products like cobalt-free high-performance catalysts, oxime-free anti-skinning agents, rheology modifiers, wetting and dispersing agents, and surface modifiers—all meticulously crafted to help deliver top-notch performance.

Architectural

Leverage a range of additives, driers, and catalysts to develop architectural paints and stains that offer excellent color, enhance paint stability, reduce yellowing, accelerate or enable curing, and prevent in-can skinning

Automotive

Develop vivid automotive coatings with performance-driven characteristics, including excellent flow, leveling, and deaeration, increased chroma, higher jetness, and transparency

General Industrial

Use high-performance additive solutions to create industrial coatings with excellent corrosion resistance, weatherability, color development, and improved substrate wetting and deaeration

Protective + Marine

Combat performance and durability issues across applications with additives that reduce surface tension, improve dry times and stability, inhibit corrosion, and provide excellent wetting for organic and inorganic pigments

Wood

Elevate both industrial and residential wood coatings with dispersants, rheology modifiers, surface modifiers, and high-performance catalysts that offer transparent pigmented stains and bold color coatings, increase stability, eliminate defects, and enable faster dry times

Improved Regulatory Labeling

Our products are expertly engineered to address performance and durability in a way that improves product labeling. We offer additive solutions designed to be cobalt-free, oxime-free, APEO-free, and tin-free, as well as solutions that enable the reduction of formulation ingredients, emit low or no VOCs, and are low in cyclosiloxanes (<0.1%).

Faster Dry Times

Our high-performance catalyst solutions enable the oxidation, curing, and through drying of paints and coatings, and perform even in adverse drying conditions caused by weather and environmental factors. Faster dry times enable users to finish the job faster.

Superior Color Development

Dial up vibrancy or enhance transparency for precise color application that elevates your product. We offer color boosters, wetting and dispersing agents, and more for use with both organic and inorganic pigments in water- and solvent-based coatings.

Envision the possibilities

We focus on the small stuff—so you don’t have to. Using industry-trusted coating additives, driers, and catalysts, we help you develop cutting-edge coatings and paints that harness performance and meet evolving regulations across the globe. Let more than 100 years of chemical expertise work for you.

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