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Highlights for furniture and flooring coatings and the printing and packaging industry at the Middle East Coatings Show

BASF’s comprehensive product portfolio provides customers with a complete toolbox of solutions to their needs. At the Middle East Coatings Show (MECS) on March 12-14 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre in the United Arab Emirates, BASF will feature, on stand B10, a range of established products as well as new solutions to formulate coatings for furniture and flooring applications. The company will also present its product offerings for the printing and packaging industry.

Coatings for furniture and flooring

The market for furniture and flooring coatings is extremely diverse, ranging from solutions for kitchen and bathroom furniture to luxury parquet floors. BASF delivers environmentally friendly solutions and innovative technologies that meet the high performance requirements of this diverse market.

Joncryl® OH 8312

BASF’s Joncryl® OH 8312 is a two-component water-based dispersion for the formulation of highly resistant industrial furniture coatings. The highly reactive hydroxyl-functional dispersion is particularly suitable in combination with products which provide extra hardening properties such as Basonat® LR 9056. This combination is especially suited for industrial topcoats in the kitchen and bathroom area where excellent finishes and durability are a necessity.

Laromer® UV resins

At the MECS, BASF will also showcase three innovations in its range of water-based UV-curable dispersions for wood and plastic coatings. The cost-effective acrylic dispersion Laromer® WA 9057 provides good chemical resistance and very low yellowing. With Laromer® UA 9060 BASF also offers a urethane acrylate dispersion with excellent scratch and chemical resistance. The third product, Laromer® UA 9064, provides low yellowing, excellent hardness as well as scratch and chemical resistance. All three products are VOC-free and are characterized by excellent physical drying, perfect blocking properties, as well as high efficiency. From its portfolio of UV resins for 100% systems, BASF will present Laromer® PE 9074 and Laromer® PE 9079; two monomer-free UV binders. Due to their different viscosity range, these UV resins can be applied to a broad range of applications in wood and plastic coatings and can also be used in printing applications.

Efka® 2010 defoamer

In Dubai, BASF will feature a new silicone-free defoamer for solvent-based applications. Efka® 2010 is suitable for primers and pigmented as well as non-pigmented coating systems. The defoamer displays a higher compatibility (minimised in-can haziness) with most solvent-based binders while providing a high defoaming efficiency.

Printing and packaging

Sharp, vibrant colours and innovative, durable finishes help to maximise consumer appeal and boost sales. With BASF, customers in the printing and packaging industry have a strong partner that provides attractive high-performance and eco-friendly solutions.

Colour for printing

As a leading supplier in the coatings and printing industries worldwide, BASF is fully committed to maintaining and advancing its position in high-end printing applications. At MECS, BASF will present its consolidated portfolio of pigments, dyes and preparations for printing. The offer is specifically targeted at the high-quality segments of packaging as well as industrial and digital printing. With Irgalite® Yellow D 1122, Irgalite® Rubine D 4240 and the industry benchmark Irgalite® Blue D 7110 F, BASF offers high-end azo and phthalocyanine pigments. In addition, BASF provides the most complete range of high-performance pigments, available in many colours and suitable for many applications, such as high-end packaging and industrial printing applications. In these areas, differentiated colours and good fastness properties are especially important.

Pigments for digital printing

The future of printing is digital. The BASF pigments Cinquasia® Jet and Cromophtal® Jet for inkjet applications are products with very fine and narrow particle size distribution and provide high levels of quality consistency. Highly transparent Microlith® preparations as well as the high-quality dyes Basacid® and Orasol® complete the offer and make BASF the leading supplier of colour to the digital printing industry.

Effects for printing and packaging

At MECS, BASF will also present its range of the high-end metallic pigment Metasheen® and the complete portfolio of pearlescent pigments including Glacier™ Frost White, the whitest pearlescent pigment. Further, BASF will feature the effect pigment Lumina® which enables beautiful sparkling effects in different colours with high chromaticity and transparency.

Microlith® preparations

Life can be a lot easier if you use pigment preparations. They can save production time and reduce costs and waste. With Microlith®, BASF offers a range of powder pigment preparations with suitable grades for water, solvent and energy-curing inks for all printing applications. Microlith® is easy to disperse and available in many colours, providing high transparency and brilliance. In combination with metallic or pearlescent pigments, stunning effects can easily be achieved. BASF’s Microlith® K pigment preparations are the state-of-the-art colour solutions for inkjet inks. The particle size distribution of these pre-dispersed pigments is extremely narrow and fine. This leads to high brilliance while at the same time the demands for the use in digital printing are met.

Pigments for sustainable solutions

Sustainability is presently a focus for BASF and will become even more important in the future. With its broad range of pigments, BASF can provide solutions for future requirements. An example of BASF’s contribution to eco-friendly applications is its compostable plastic bags – in terms of pigments BASF will present Heliogen® Blue D 7460, a metal-free phthalocyanine pigment.

Joncryl® FLX line, water-based technology for medium-duty film printing

Joncryl styrene-acrylic resins and emulsions are the key components of high-performance inks and coatings. In Dubai, BASF will feature its broad Joncryl® FLX line. Joncryl® FLX products are successfully used in water-based inks for film-printing applications. With BASF’s Joncryl® FLX line, the conversion from solvent-based to water-based printing inks for medium-duty film applications is a high-quality, cost-effective alternative.

Irgacure® photoinitiators and Laromer® resins

BASF will also feature its Irgacure® photoinitiators and Laromer® resins product line for printing and packaging applications. The Laromer® product line offers high-performance binders, resulting in emission-free energy curing of printing inks and overprint varnishes. BASF’s Irgacure® photoinitiators are essential components for the UV curing process and set the industry standard for initiating the polymerisation process to quickly reach the final cross-linked printing ink and overprint varnish. Curing faster and more economically than traditional methods, UV- and electron-beam curing lead to a higher efficiency with substantial savings in energy, time and labour. At the same time, higher gloss and resistance improve the overall quality of the print.

Efka® dispersing agents

In Dubai, BASF will also feature its new range of high- performance dispersing agents. Efka® 7701, Efka® 7731 and Efka® 7732 are tailormade for high-performance printing applications and provide superior rheological properties as well as unmatched pigment dispersion stability. This allows best-in-class inkjet inks that set new performance benchmarks for the whole industry.