PermaPel® products can be formulated to achieve excellent properties for a wide range of applications. Dry filling is possible using a wide range of pigments and fillers to either enhance performance and/or for cost effectiveness. Small additions of as little as 2% of PermaPel® into a latex formulation has been found to significantly increase the…
MaxxBreak® 4 is a mineral oil free product for a wide range of industrial coatings applications. It is particularly effective in latex paints, adhesives, flexo inks and paper coatings. MaxxBreak® 4 is highly effective in formulations containing styrene butadiene, acrylic, Neoprene, polyvinyl acetate, acetoxylated polyethylene and other latexes. It is also effective in water-based inks,…
PermaPel® GA series products are “surfactant free” versions that are FDA compliant with FDA 176.170 and 176.180, and produced in an extra-fine particle size for better film formation. The PermaPel® GA series is available across a broad Tg range and can be “dry fill” formulated to achieve desired properties and meet processing needs. PermaPel® GA…
In July of 2019 the USPTO allowed MCTRON Technologies a composition of matter patent on PermaPel® polymer technology and includes its use in filled coatings and substrate treatments, said composition with fillers (talc, kaolin, CaCO3, etc.), substrates treated with the aforementioned and substrates treated so as to improve contact angle. A Notice of Allowance from…
MCTRON Technologies is a long-standing supplier of thickeners for industrial use in a wide range of applications. In this issue of NewsBites, we highlight our MaxxThix® line of quality products, and offer customers guidance for choosing the right thickener to meet their rheology needs.
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MCTRON alkali-swellable thickeners are polyacrylate based polymers that contain carboxylic acid groups. Alkali-swellable thickeners are co-polymers of methacrylic acid and ethyl acrylate ester, imitate the rheology properties of cellulosics, but provides an easier-to-use and more cost-effective product. MaxxThix® alkali-swellable products thicken via water absorption and swelling. Different rheological characteristics are achieved by engineering the molecular…
MCTRON’s MaxxThix® MT-17 is a high viscosity alkali-swellable thickener made with a hydrophobic monomer designed with a temperature sensitive cross-linker that helps build a yield point into a polymer system. Associative alkali-swellable thickeners like MaxxThix® MT-17 are extremely cost effective and provide good to excellent splatter resistance, high shear viscosity and sag resistance. MaxxThix® MT-17…
MaxxThix® MT-107 is a sodium polyacrylate gum thickener generally used as a “top off” thickener at the end of a process to optimize viscosity. MaxxThix® MT-107 is used to thicken coating compounds for adhesives, sizes, dispersions used in upholstery, drapery, carpet, paper, paint, wallpaper printing, textiles and other formulated latex products. It can be used…
MCTRON Technologies has added MaxxBloc® PB-1270 and MaxxBloc® PB-1285 to its growing line of anti-backstaining products for denim washing applications. MaxxBloc® PBS-1285 has also been developed as an anti-backstaining product formulated with a high performance cotton dispersant. Click here for more information about our products for denim laundry applications. To contact our dedicated sales executive,…