Chemical Raw Materials - 22.02.2016
Lecture at Waterborne Symposium 2016
What are the chances alkyd resins based on renewable raw materials hold for us in the near future? This was the question Dr. Toine Biemans (Head of R&D Worlée-Chemie) examined at the Waterborne Symposium in Louisiana at 3rd February 2016.
No one is more in touch with the latest trends than our R&D department when it comes to the theme of „renewable raw materials. That is why we would like to show you the abstract of the lecture, Dr. Toine Biemans and his team (Dr. Anke Wiegand, Thijs Neuteboom, Lars Ossenschmidt) developed for the Waterborne Symposium:
"One of the challenges that we all face nowadays deals with sustainability. This abstract concept comes to life at Worlée by the definition of guidelines to which each and every department can relate and the setting of departmental goals.
The R&D department at Worlée has as one of their goals to increase to number and/or amount of renewable materials in new product developments. To this end we actively pursue cooperations with research institutes, customers and suppliers. The efforts of the last years have resulted in several alkyd resin based product developments with high renewable material content, which all have there merits in specific application fields. They range from wall paints to printing inks and from wood care to decorative paints. What they have in common is that they are all either water based or high solids products.
Alkyd resins are plant or vegetable oil based polyesters that therefore by definition contain renewable materials. We will discuss the pool of other renewable raw materials that was used as well as some of the products that can be developed based on these ingredients. Product properties will be related to the use of certain ingredients.
Our latest developments are for >95% based on renewable raw materials. We will present our R&D efforts and the application properties of the different products and relate them to market standards. The Worlée VGT-series are water based, show good hardness development and high gloss with easy matting, allowing them to be used in decorative as well as wall paint applications. They are an environmentally friendly, sustainable alternative."
Any further questions? Please contact our experts:
Thijs Neuteboom (Waterbased Alkyd Resins)
E-Mail: TNeuteboom@worlee.de
Lars Ossenschmidt (High Solids)
E-Mail: LOssenschmidt@worlee.de
